The Curve of Time is a 1961 book by M. Wylie Blanchet recounting trips she took with her five children throughout the inland waterways between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia in the 1920s and 1930s.

[1]: 143 Blanchet herself wrote that the book "is neither a story nor a log; it is just an account of many long sunny summer months, during many years when the children were young and old enough to take on camping holidays up the coast of British Columbia.

[1]: 5  Though Blanchet was "careful, and mostly correct" in describing and naming the places in the book, not all the details are clear, leaving subsequent cruisers of the same waters to puzzle over the precise locations.

For Oztaskin, "[t]he predominant impression is of a very literate woman writing as if only for herself, in service of her memories," and organized "if at all, by incident or theme: trouble with the boat's engine, say, or navigating a specific inlet.

coast, where the Blanchet family wander into empty villages and burial areas, bypass locks and warning signs, remove objects and artifacts that they found there, and “played with their old boxes-for-the-dead".