From Fjord to Floathouse: One Family's Journey from the Farmlands of Norway to the Coast of British Columbia

In 1898 Vancouver, the flip of a coin sends his partner to the Klondike gold rush and leaves young Norwegian immigrant, Andy Forberg, to carve a living from trees found along the waterways of the remote coast of British Columbia. One hundred years later a granddaughter, driven by a need to explore her family heritage, experiences a heart-warming welcome at the farm he left so long ago. from Fjord to Floathouse is the saga of hardy pioneers living in snug floating homes and sustained by surrounding sea and forest. Their chosen life meant communication and transportation by water only, with semi-weekly shipments of mail and staple supplies (anything they could not shoot, catch, or pick). In short time segments complete with quotes, photographs, maps, recipes and family charts, readers are drawn into a rural lifestyle that only few have experienced, or even been aware existed.