Written as I Remember It

Written As I Remember It is warm and honest, partly a memoir; part ethnography; part Farmer’s Almanac. It draws on a Sliammon Elder’s oral history of a skilled and prosperous people who lived and died here long before they built a company town and named it for an English surgeon…[it] captures a vanished world that survived for 10,000 years, and was just as worthy as mill towns with telephones.

~Holly Doan, Blacklock's Reporter

Paul moves fluidly between these different affects in her narration, as any gifted storyteller and scholar might.

~Joseph Weiss, Wesleyan University, Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal

A strong, independently minded woman, the first to sit on the Sliammon First Nation’s Council, Elsie Paul has had an inspirational presence in her family and in her community. This charming book should be warmly embraced by all those who seek to comprehend the teachings that guided this Sliammon woman’s life in the twentieth century. ~Dorothy Kennedy, Victoria, BC Studies