From Primitive Shack to Premier's Wife: The Constance Davie Story

Constance (Connie) Skinner Davie lived at a time in history when women were seen and not heard. Most women were mere appendages on the arms of their husbands, but she managed to carve a place for herself in the raw political arena of a province in Canada that was slowly emerging from colonialism in the 1870s.

As one of the first white children born in British Columbia in 1853, she was a curious child. As a young woman living in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, she was a passionate wo...