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JoDee Samuelson
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She was born in raised in Alberta, the daughter of a church minister. She became a hippie and headed with her boyfriend to Toronto, where she spent time hanging around Rochdale College. The couple came to Prince Edward Island in 1971, looking to sell beads to tourists. She and her boyfriend made their mark when they opened the city's first health food store, the Root Cellar, which quickly became a central point in the Island's burgeoning back-to-the-land community. She is an award-winning animator, now living in Canoe Cove.
Summary of Interview
June 27, 2008
- (0:00) how ended up on PEI
- (4:50) starting The Root Cellar
- (15:30) why doesn't consider self to be a back-to-the-lander
- (23:55) reception on PEI
- (25:25) why she stayed on PEI
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1. The Thing to Do at the Time
The following essay by Alan MacEachern uses quotations from the series of interviews conducted by Ryan O'Connor. A pdf of the complete essay is available for download.
The 1970s back-to-the-land movement was unusual as far as movements go, because it involved actual movement. People from across North America relocated to out of the way rural places to grow their own food and live more simply, a sort of rubber boot rebooting. Though they shared many of the same influences, they made individual choices and decided as individuals or families what small pockets of the continent would become their new home.
Prince Edward Island was one of the popular destinations for back-to-the-landers, thanks to its beautiful summers, arable soil, and cheap, cheap land. A sizable number of back-to-the-landers — in the hundreds at least — moved to PEI, taking over farms that had fallen into disuse or building homes in forests that had never been cleared. They settled into a society that had, in many ways, never left the land, that was itself trying to join modernity but still seemed closer to the 19th century than the 21st. The back-to-the-landers, in establishing themselves on PEI, simultaneously validated the celebrated Island way of
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