Martin Allerdale Grainger (17 November 1874 – 15 October 1941) was a Canadian journalist, forester and author.
In 1876 they emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, where Allerdale would found a newspaper and serve as a member of Parliament.
Grainger then travelled to northern British Columbia where he worked at placer mining, logging and journalism.
He and his new wife, Mabel Higgs of Victoria, British Columbia, wanted to return to Canada to live.
It is a realistic and original account of the life of loggers on Canada's West Coast at the turn of the century.