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Susan Louisa Moir was born in Ceylon in 1845, where her father owned a tea plantation. When her father died, her family relocated to England. In 1860 her new step-father relocated the family to Hope, BC. In 1868 she married John Fall Allison (one of the founders of the town of Princeton, BC), and they moved to the Similkameen Valley, becoming the first non-Indigenous settlers to live there. They also lived on the west side of Okanagan Lake (present-day Westbank) from 1873 - 1880. She retired to Vancouver in 1928, where she died on February 1, 1937. Her memoirs, partially published in The Province in 1931, were edited and republished by the UBC Press in 1976 as "A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison".

Born: 1845
Died: 1937