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The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Handout The seeds of the woman Tobias Douglas would become – the things she would care about, the life and passions and success she would have – were planted with a photograph she received as a child: A picture of her grandmother standing in front of an enormous red cedar tree stump in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. Ms. Douglas was seven or eight when she got that picture, her partner, Grant Parnell, says, and the image never left her. The Hollow Tree, as it is known, would take root in her mind, calling her west, away from an unhappy childhood and deep into the forests of British Columbia.