This camp was a bonus because we were permitted to take our wives along.  I bought the red 1970 Beetle beside the tent just before Lois and I left for Stuart Lake.  It cost me a measley $1,400 net ($2,000 - $600 trade in for my 1966 Beetle).


This is Lois inside our tent diligently typing something or other.  As you can see, the tent had all the comforts of home - gas stove and even a fridge.


Lois and I went up to this Chuchi Lake Ranger Cabin north of Stuart Lake where part of my ground surveys were conducted.  Note the British Land Rovers which were the main bush vehicles used by the Forest Service Inventory Branch at the time.


This was the Bell J6B Helicopter that I flew in to record my estimates of forest species content, age and height classes.  The pilot, Ron Engineer, is getting some fishing in.


This is what I observed as we flew over the forest canopy.  I had a tape recorder in my lap as well as maps of the route we were to fly over.


Jessie Robinson (Lois' mother) and Lois in our apartment suite in Victoria in 1970.




In the spring of 1971, I was transferred to the Vancouver Forest District as it was called at the time.  It later became the Vancouver Forest Region when the old Forest Ranger field organization was replaced by Forest Districts headed by District Managers.  Lois and I lived in an apartment in Vancouver's West End until we bought this home on Stuart Crescent in North Surrey in July of 1972 for $29,300 with a $1,500 down payment and I forget the monthly mortgage payment but it wasn't much.  This picture was taken the following summer in 1973.


The Christmas dinners at the Robinson farm were always really something to see and participate in.  They were really big family get togethers and Lois and I used to travel down there each winter to spend Christmas with her family.  This was Christmas dinner, 1973.


The Robinson farm house northwest of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba in winter.  Winters were often very cold indeed during the 1970s with temperatures sinking to -45 F at times.


This is what the barn looked like then.  Len later cut the walls out and lowered the barn roof to the ground to make it into a machinery repair shop for the tractors and other machinery.


Len had cows at this time but he later quit raising cattle due to the onerous work it entailed.


Lois and I used to have great fun riding this snow mobile back to Manitoba Lake where we could roar along  the snow covered ice at high speeds.  Here Len is refueling the snowmobile for one of our wintery rides.


Glenn and Lois about to disembark on a winter snow mobile ride.


This was the Robinson family home in the summer of 1975.  Len Robinson owned about 1,000 acres and rented another 1,000 in his farming operation.


This was the barn and farm yard.  The horse you see was Brenda's (Lois' youngest sister) which was called Lady May.


This is Len working on his tractor with Verne Malfait (Len's other son-in-law) working at the rear and Tom (Len's son) standing in front holding Jeffrey (Verne and Lynda's son) on his shoulders.


This is me running Len's swather during a harvest in 1975.


This picture was taken in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.  Lois and I travelled 11,000 miles over a 5 week holiday to drive to the Maritimes and NewFoundland in the summer of 1976.  I had bought this VW Van in 1975 and camperized myself to install a sink, propane stove and 3 way (12 volt, 110 volt & gas) fridge.  We had a lot of fun with this van.


Glenn and Lois in a January, 1977 ski at the Lake Louise ski mountain with Fred and Sharon Amos.


Lois and Sharon with Fred in the background.


This is Lois and our 1975 VW Van parked beside Chilliwack Lake in the spring of 1977.


This is the White Pass Railway with our Van on the train ahead of us.  We boarded the train at Skagway and will disembark at Whitehorse, Yukon.  We did this trip in August of 1977.  Since then the train no longer carries passengers to Whitehorse since there is now a highway.  We visited Dawson City and then drove onto Alaska.


This is me and our dog, Muffi, in my lake touring kayak that I bought in 1976 and still have.  This picture was taken at Harrison Lake in June of 1978.


This is me holding Carmen in the pool at Harrison Lake in June of 1978. Carment was only 4 months old at this time.


Glenn with Carmen and Muffi in July of 1978 at Manitoba Lake north of the Robinson farm.


Lois with Carmen and Muffi at Manitoba Lake in July of 1978.


Glenn and Lois at Skeleton Lake in July of 1978.  We stopped by Skeleton Lake to visit some old friends of my parents on the way back from Manitoba to oiur home in Surrey, BC.




Carmen and Muffi in September of 1978.  Lois died of cancer on January 17, 1983.at the age of 39 1/2 years old.
Carmen was still only 4 years old at the time.