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Myrtle Siebert

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Biography

Myrtle grew up in a floathouse (a house secured on a float of logs) in Port Neville inlet on the remote BC coast. All mail and supplies arrived every two weeks, via a Union Steamship, school was by correspondence, taught by her mother, all transportation was by boat.

At 9 years of age her family moved the float south to Rock Bay where she entered a one-room school. For high school in Campbell River, she became a boarder, helping with child care in a different home each year.

Myrtle credits her high school principal, a very lucky break, and a 5-year industry scholarship, for opening the way to enrollment at university where she found a whole new world of opportunity at age 16.

This logger’s daughter found careers beyond the expected m ...more

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Average rating: 3.29 · 7 ratings · 1 review · 6 distinct works

	from Fjord to Floathouse, One Family's Journey from the Farmlands of Norway to the Coast of British Columbia 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	from Fjord to Floathouse, one family's journey from the farmlands of Norway to the coast of British Columbia (The Floathouse Series Book 1) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Floathouse, Gunhild's Granddaughter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Floathouse: Gunhild's Granddaughter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Floathouse, Lifelong Learning with Friends and Family (3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Success in Early Reading

On July, 2013, my friends and I are sorting used books in a large gymnasium preparing for our book sale in aid of scholarship and bursaries for local students. Grandson, Tait, six years old, sits on the floor under a sorting table going through a pile of children’s books. He’s not finding anything interesting.
My retired kindergarten teacher friend approaches him to make a suggestion. Then she turn Read more of this blog post »

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“Never underestimate the value of a scholarship. That is what sent me off to university and opened a whole new world of opportunity. Its why I continue to believe passionately in Lifelong Learning.”
― Myrtle Siebert, Beyond the Floathouse: Lifelong Learning with friends and family

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