A VERY POLITICAL FAMILY

This book illuminates a series of scenes, sketches and reminiscences from the 20th century journey of three-plus generations of what became a very political family.

The author, Vera Kristiansen (nee Sharko), grew up in a Russo-Ukrainian immigrant family on a homestead in the rural backwoods of northern Alberta. Struggling to resist the usual expectation for girls in this area, she set out to acquire a career and to travel until, at age 27, she met and married a young man from downtown Vancouver.

Finding herself an integral part of a three...