Mention the name Wilma Miller to many people in the Fraser Valley, and they'll probably draw a blank. But start describing Grandma, who lived over on the Four-Bar-Four Road, and most likely you won't get to draw your second breath. For 50 years, Grandma owned and/or lived on a tract of land, Miller's New Horizons, that's now dotted with other cabins, dogs, kids, and projects-in-the-making. In keeping with the traditional image of a Grandma, she lived in a cozy cabin, redolent with the smells of freshly-baked bread and woodsmoke, and chockfull to overflowing with knickknacks, needlepoint, quilts and objects d'art that she made and collected. But unlike many Grandmas, who've been seduced by the modern conveniences of Formica and microwave ovens, she always cooked on a woodstove, an iron enamal-trimmed Majestic range. At 84, this Grandma split her own kindling and started her morning fire.  Although she sold the property to Darcy MacGregor in 1986, she continued to spend every summer there until her death in 1996.

 

Pumphouse Tales

Robyn

 The new "face" of Grandma's Cabins, Robyn Wilson returns to the cabins after 18 years.  In her time away, she was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador, she earned two Masters Degrees, an M.A. in Sustainable Communities and a M.Ed. in Bilingual and Multicultural Education, she served as an Executive Director for a non-profit adult education center in Telluride, CO and was an academic advisor for Colorado Northwestern Community College.

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Darcy

Darcy MacGregor became the owner of Grandma's Cabins in 1982.  Since then, she has seen it all.  During her time at the cabins, she has overseen the building of a pumphouse, the development of a constructed wetland, the installation of solar panels, and the building of several cabins that continue to house community members to this day.  

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