On reviewing the forum posts( check over to the left under Shipwreck Geneology)I had dug up some old files I had, and links, and thought it well worth posting about.Its not S.B.P. I know, and its not my continuing tour of S.B.P., but it IS Bruce, and even though she isnt a outlaw nor a famous politician this is about Isabella
born in Ireland, grew up in the pioneer Bruce, and put her experiences to words.

"Let us to the work of this divinely dowered Isabella–this angelic mendicant, craving nothing of life but its finer gifts–this blessed gypsy of Canadian woods and streams. What a royal life she led! No pose to take, no reputation to sustain, no tendency to routine thinking or lassitude of the imaginative faculty to be struggled with . . . . . not a single syllable out-breathing the 'vulgar luxury of despair.' Happy, happy poet! She, like every other genius, found in the ecstasy of expression at the full height of her nature a compensation that turned all outward trials into details not worth speaking of . . . . . She is purely a genius, not a craftswoman, and a genius who has patience enough to be an artist. She has in abundant measure that power of youth which persists in poets of every age–that capacity of seeing things for the first time, and with the rose and pearl of dawn upon them. ."

[ See: Isabella ]