We have been watching Canadian tv shows this past year - fitting - since this is Canada's 150th birthday. It all started with reading Richmond P. "Rich" Hobson's books. In the 1950's and 1960's Rich Hobson wrote a trilogy of memoirs; "Grass Beyond the Mountains", "Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy" and "The Rancher Takes a Wife" about his and his partner "Pan" Panhandle Phillips experiences pioneering a frontier cattle ranch in the almost completely unexplored at the time interior of British Columbia in the 1930's and 1940's.
They developed the Frontier Cattle Company into the largest cattle ranch in the world - approximately 4 million acres, the most remote ranch in North America. That entity only lasted 9 years because WWII broke out and they became desperately short of manpower and cash as cattle prices were too low for too long. However they both continued ranching on their own on a smaller scale.
Rich was a wonderful author and makes one feel they are actually along for the ride, seeing things through his eyes, as they battle the elements - 60-70 below temperatures, exploring beautiful, unusual country, the colorful characters who lived in the area, the dangers of illness and injury in an area so remote with no modern transportation or conveniences.
He includes lots of humor and there is romance too as the two cowboys pursue and eventually find wives.
Here is a link to his first book.
Grass Beyond the Mountains
