Mary Trainer was a co-founder with Rick Antonson and Brian Antonson of Nunaga Publishing in 1972. Together they published more than twenty-five books, including In Search of a Legend: Slumach's Gold, which was re-released by Heritage House in 2007. Mary has been writing about British Columbia for four decades and was a communications coordinator with Metro Vancouver for twenty years. She lives in Summerland, British Columbia, Canada.