![]() ![]() ![]() To make ends meet, she took a job as a seasick, greenhorn deckhand on Billy Proctor's fishboat, while raising her son and daughter in Simoom Sound. ![]() Morton remained at Echo Bay from 1986 onward. ![]() Six years after her marriage to filmmaker and photographer Robin Morton in 1980, her husband died while filming whales, just one day before National Geographic was scheduled to record the couple's work. "When I was 18," Morton has said, "I naively thought that if I looked hard enough, I could understand the communication between two whales in a tank in Los Angeles. B.C.'s leading opponent of fish farming, Alexandra Morton, lived there from the mid-'80s until 2007, raising her son and daughter on a floathouse, conducting maritime research and working on lifetime local Bill Proctor's fishboat.īrought up in Connecticut, Morton moved to California in 1976 in order to research marine mammals. With a year-round population of approximately ten, miniscule Echo Bay has been home to four authors-Alexandra Morton, Bill Proctor, Yvonne Maximchuk and Nikki Van Schyndel-over a 25-year-period. The most prolific literary town in Canada on a per capita basis has got to be Echo Bay, B.C. LITERARY LOCATION: Echo Bay, on Gilford Island ![]()
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