We journey to Canada for our next traveling mom story, a true-life tale originally published in 1962. The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest was written by M. Wylie Blanchet, a free-spirited mom born in Montreal in 1891.
At the age of 36, Blanchet’s husband died, leaving her alone with their five children on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Although family members said she would never manage, Blanchet did just that, and in fact made time for special journeys of discovery with her kids. For several summers, she and her children explored the waters off of Vancouver Island in Caprice, a 25-foot motorboat. She wrote several magazine articles about their travels, which eventually led to the publication of this delightful memoir about their family explorations.
Blanchet’s book is credited as a well-written Canadian classic that almost reads like fiction at times, with rich descriptions of the places and people they encounter. But it’s all real — one mom’s actual account of the adventures she took with her kids. Cool mom, huh?