Rae Basin

Rae Basin (49˚28'20" 126˚24'15" Head of Hesquiat Hbr, NW of Tofino, W side of Vancouver I). Ada Annie Jordan (1888–1985), from Sacramento, married Willie Francis John Rae-Arthur (1873–1936) at Vancouver in 1909 and moved to this remote part of Clayoquot Sd in 1915. She remained there for 70 years and became legendary, not only for her extraordinary garden but also for her endurance and feisty personality. A crack shot and scourge of large, marauding mammals, she became known as “Cougar...

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