FOGSWAMP

The HUWHESIMAN, Threday, June 3, 1977 PAGE 3,

A family. and their swans

Herald Staff Writer

The Turners admire
people who live in cities and

They cope with
extraordinary things:
standing on hard p vernent,
wail in line r things,

and pollution,

The Turners feed a flock
of more than 400 swans
every day for three to three
and a half months in the
winter. The walk to the
feeding site on Lonesome
Lake is 5-miles.

They have missed two or
threedays. In twenty years.

They don’t consider
themszives extraordinary.
_ Trudy Turner is the

daughter of Ralph Edwards,
the man called the “Crusoe
of Lonesome Lake”. He
began feeding swans when
he first started
homesteading in the area.

He became well-known for
his work with the birds at
the isolated lake.

His daughter, Trudy,
raised w “wise decided
to stay in the area. She
married in 1957, to Jack
Turner, a man from
-Vancouver Island who
wanted a self-sufficient life-
style

Trudy has written a book
about the twenty-plus years
she has spent on her
property. Called

‘Fogswamp”’, like the
homestead she and her

husband have built, it

recounts the good and "pad
times they have had and
their unusual way of life.

They walk 19 miles. and
beat 19 to tet toa nelghbor’s

on the cold winter weather
the frozen,

. chicken” or some fish.

Fruits and vegetables are
preserved for winter use by

“*mhe he whole Turner famil

is in “the best of health”

according to Ruth McVeigh.
Trudy has only been in the
hospital once; to deliver her
daughter Susan.
of them are cautious
on the farm, taking no
ehances with life and limb
when they work because of
the distance to medical help.
‘In the case of broken
bones and sprains, Trudy
herself could probably do a

certain amount of
“doctoring’. She is
vetrinarian. to all the

animals on the farm,
Family inceme is derived

from the sale of articles to

outdoor and sports

magazines. Over the last.

five years, their income has
been about, 1,700.00
annually. They are not
pecoming millionaires in a

hurr

Trud Turner has ‘‘a
marvelous way with
words'’, Ruth McVeigh
says. The book she has
written reflects that talent.

The family is very close,
and there is a great deal of
warmth and humor between
them. They live in a
‘liberated’ household, where
male and female ‘roles’ are

tant. Whoever has

and ack spent a lot of time
in the house.

All three are very well-
Tead, and the house has a
large library. _Susan’s
education, carried out b
correspondence, goes muc
further in reality than her

rade eight certificate

use she
extensively

The family seldom leaves
Fogswamp, and do not have
many visitors. Some are not
welcome because they are
careless. They leave farm

ates open, allowing

ivestock to wander, Or they
light.a fire far away from a
water source not realizing it
could mean disaster for the
Turners if it ever got out of
hand. There are no fire
engines to come and put the
blaze out.

People who leave litter
behind are not appreciated
cither. If they must bring
gatbage in they should take
it back out with them.

Susan ‘Turner may leave
Fogswamp tolive in a town.
If she does, the farm at
Lonesome Lake may havae

-have to change hands, or

change direction.

With the increasing
development in nearby
Tweedamuir Park, changes
May come sooner than

anyone anticipates. Togeta -

look at things as they are
now, you. can read
‘Fogswamp’,

e has read so.

eee a

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Living with Swans in the Wilderness

Trudy Turner
Daughter of Ralph Edwards, “Crusoe of Lonesome Lake”

& Ruth M.McVeigh

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