19 episodes
The Cougar Lady Chronicles Grant Lawrence
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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The Cougar Lady Chronicles is a true pioneering adventure story set in the rain forest of the West Coast of Canada in the 20th century. Told in dramatic storytelling fashion by award-winning author and CBC host Grant Lawrence, this is an exciting wilderness saga of the life and times of "Cougar" Nancy Crowther as she faces the daily dangers of wilderness living; everything from cougars, to draft dodgers, to the mysterious force known only as "them." This series originally aired on North By Northwest, CBC Radio One, in British Columbia.
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Chapter 1 - The Rifle
Host Grant Lawrence was just a six-year-old boy when he first came face to gun barrel with the Cougar Queen of Okeover Inlet, British Columbia, Canada.
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Chapter 2 - The Friendship
Host Grant Lawrence and his family are nose to gun barrel with "Cougar" Nancy Crowther and her pack of snarling bush dogs, as Grant's dad tries to charm his way out of it.
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Chapter 3 - The Beginning
The future Cougar Queen of Okeover Inlet and her young family make the epic journey from the English countryside to the wilds of West Coast British Columbia to start their new life.
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Chapter 4 - The Depression
A cougar has been targeting the family goats that the Crowther family depends on for sustenance to get them through the Great Depression. A teenaged Nancy Crowther tracks the mighty beast with a pack of dogs and a one-shot rifle that doesn't shoot straight.
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Chapter 5 - The Celebrity
Nancy Crowther's rifle is out of ammunition and there is a wounded cougar in the bushes less than twenty feet away. What would you do? What did Nancy do?
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Chapter 6 - The War Years
The impact of World War II in Europe is felt as far away as the West Coast rain forest, which leads "Cougar" Nancy Crowther to leave her family cabin in the wilderness.