Susan Allison

Susan Louisa Moir Allison (born August 18, 1845) was a British-born Canadian pioneer and memoirist. After emigrating to British Columbia as a teenager, she settled in the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys, helped establish local schools, and raised a large family. Her recollections of life in 19th-century British Columbia were published as A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison (edited/abridged by Margaret A. Ormsby and published by UBC Press). Allison's writings provide a valued first-person account of early settler life and interactions with First Nations communities in the province.