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Article: Jimmy Savile couldn't fix my cowgirl dream, so I did it myself ... and moved to Canada's Wild West.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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Byline: Tracey Harrison
At the age of six, Debbie Atha wrote to the children's TV programme Jim'll Fix It saying she wanted to be a cowgirl for a day. She didn't receive a reply and grew up to become a pharmaceutical sales rep. However, her dream never faded - and, 30 years later, Debbie is running her own 285-acre ranch in the stunning wilderness of British Columbia.
She is among 10,000 Britons who have moved to this part of Western Canada in the past five years, according to official immigration figures - lured by the mountains, forests, coastlines and lakes set in an area four times the size of the UK. BC, as it's known, offers everything from the ...