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Sylvia Olsen was born and brought up in Victoria, but at seventeen she married and moved to the Tsartlip First Nation. For more than thirty years she lived and worked and raised her four children in the Tsartlip community, spending fifteen years buying and selling Cowichan sweaters from a shop behind her home on the reserve. Her book "Working with Wool, a history of the Cowichan Sweater" won the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing in 2010.