Paula Wild has written for British Columbia Magazine, Reader's Digest, the Vancouver Sun, Mariner Life and the Victoria Times-Colonist. She was awarded the BC Historical Federation Certificate of Merit in 1996 for her book Sointula: Island Utopia. She lives in Courtenay, BC.
Introduction: Looking For a Better Life
Chapter 1: Mink Builds a Mountain
Chapter 2: The Kalevala
Chapter 3: An Impractical Faddist
Chapter 4: To Build a New Finland
Chapter 5: Steady and Level-headed
Chapter 6: Shoemakers and Tailors
Chapter 7: Slander and Dark Speculations
Chapter 8: Sisu
Chapter 9: Free Love and the Bridge Fiasco
Chapter 10: The Lesson of Sointula
Chapter 11: The Hard Part of Life
Chapter 12: Apostles of Socialism
Chapter 13: No Churches No Troubles
Chapter 14: Everybody Knew Everybody
Chapter 15: Back to the Land
Chapter 16: The Paradox of Change
Appendices
Sources
Index