Qualla: Cougar Annie https://qualla.com/cougar-annie en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/y/1/cougar-annie-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cougar Annie https://qualla.com/cougar-annie Cougar Annie: Introduction https://qualla.com/cougar-annie/ Photo credit Paper ripper 1968 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. "BC Widow with Nursery and orchard wishes partner. Widower preferred. Object matrimony." The ad ran in The Western Producer after the death of Ada Annie Rae-Arthur's first husband in 1936. She placed it from Boat Basin, near Hesquiat Harbour on the west coast of Vancouver Island -- a place so remote that the only connection to civilization was a steamship that arrived every ten days. The ad worked. In fact, it worked so well that after her second husband and third husband both died, she ran it again. By the time she was done, Ada Annie -- known to the coast as Cougar Annie -- had outlived four husbands, raised eleven children, killed at least 62 cougars and roughly 80 bears, and maintained a five-acre garden in the temperate rainforest for more than 65 years.

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/y/1/cougar-annie-wp/c0y1-cougar-annie-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cougar Annie: Sacramento to the End of the Road https://qualla.com/cougar-annie/ Photo credit Paper ripper 1968 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Born Ada Annie Jordan in Sacramento, California in 1888, she had already lived in England, South Africa, and the Canadian Prairies before arriving at Boat Basin in Clayoquot Sound in 1915. She came with her first husband, Willie Rae-Arthur, and three small children. The ostensibl...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/y/1/cougar-annie-wp/c0y1-cougar-annie-sacramento-to-the-end-of-the-road.mp3 0:06 2 full Cougar Annie: The Markswoman and Her Garden https://qualla.com/cougar-annie/ Photo credit Paper ripper 1968 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Annie earned her nickname the hard way. Cougars and bears preyed on the goats and chickens she raised to feed her family, and she shot them with a skill that became legendary along the coast. By 1955, she claimed to have killed 62 cougars and about 80 bears, collecting bounties t...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/y/1/cougar-annie-wp/c0y1-cougar-annie-the-markswoman-and-her-garden.mp3 0:06 3 full Cougar Annie: Four Husbands and a Submarine https://qualla.com/cougar-annie/ Photo credit Paper ripper 1968 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Willie Rae-Arthur died in 1936, prompting the first newspaper ad. The husband Annie selected from several candidates died at their home in 1944 of an accidental gunshot wound -- the story goes that he was cleaning his gun and did not realize a cartridge was still in the chamber. ...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/y/1/cougar-annie-wp/c0y1-cougar-annie-four-husbands-and-a-submarine.mp3 0:06 4 full Cougar Annie: Planted Something Nice on Top https://qualla.com/cougar-annie/ Photo credit Paper ripper 1968 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Annie rarely left her property. She lived there into her nineties, ailing and mostly blind, before she was finally removed to Port Alberni, where she died on April 28, 1985, at the age of 97. Her friend Peter Buckland, a retired Vancouver stockbroker, bought the property from her...

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