Shirley Canning of Lone Butte isn't ready to admit she is a collector of British royalty memorabilia, but over the years, she has put away a regal pile of monarchy-related things.
Ask her any question about the Queen of England and the Royal Family, both past and present, and she can probably give you the answer.
With 2012 being the 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, commemorating her accession to the throne, Canning was inspired to pull out her royal treasures and revisit the noteworthy points in royal history they cover.
The centrepiece of the conglomeration is a royal scrapbook produced in 1953 in commemoration of the Queen's coronation on June 2 of that year.
The striking front cover with its tattered edges is a colour portrait of the young Queen in all of her regal finery. The inside pages are filled with news and magazine clippings Canning cut from the few pieces of printed material that made their way to the South Cariboo in those days.
As far as she can recollect, the book was a school project, which was started in 1953 when she was in Grade 1.
"We lived in Lone Butte and maybe got a weekly Vancouver Sun newspaper, so the pictures must have come from school. Everything would have been glued down with flour paste we made in class."
Some of the pictures show proof they came from the Family Herald farm paper, which her mother, Anna Granberg, received regularly in the mail.
Canning figures everyone in her classroom was given one of the beautiful scrapbooks to fill. There were only about 20 children, from Grades 1 to 8, who attended her old Lone Butte School back then.
She describes the school as two rooms with a portable in the back, which sat on what now is an empty, overgrown lot in downtown Lone Butte.
"We would sing "God Save the Queen" every morning in school. That is the first thing we did," Canning recalls.
Granberg says the first thing a person saw when they walked into any local school, was a portrait of the Queen.
She was the Lone Butte School janitor for at least 30 years and she says notable teachers included Joanne Levick, who still resides in the Interlakes area, and a vibrant woman, Hazel Huckvale, who later moved on to teach in Williams Lake and become one of its most endearing residents.
Granberg also attended school in Lone Butte in 1938-1940 when it was a one-room log building, which sat above the area now occupied by the Lone Butte Volunteer Fire Department.
While not being a royal follower, she somewhat prides herself in being the same age as Queen Elizabeth.
While Granberg has never been overly interested in the Royal Family, she has always kept an eye out for royal memorabilia at garage sales and the like, so she could pass it along to her daughter.
Some pieces went into the scrapbook and others have found special places in Canning's home, including an original souvenir coronation program, with almost every detail of the ceremony and its guests.
Flipping through the pages of the scrapbook is like taking a walk through royal history. Its photos document every major event connected with the Royal Family, through the Charles and Diana era and to the present, where the Silver Jubilee will no doubt generate a whole new chapter of photos and news and magazine clippings.
"Why not carry on?" she remarks.
