Author : Robert Sanderson Trudeau
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039155677
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Book Synopsis Shuniah-Ogama by : Robert Sanderson Trudeau
Download or read book Shuniah-Ogama written by Robert Sanderson Trudeau and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976, John Rager, the newly arrived Indian Affairs Nakina District commerce officer lives alone in a rooming house with a deep secret. He soon discovers that many other people within the agency have secrets – in a district with mostly fly-in villages, the district manager has a terrible fear of flying; the former commerce officer and the current district supervisor of construction and capital projects take bribes; and the owner of a district air charter company is a racist who was once a member of the murderous Waffen SS. What changes everything is the arrival of a Catholic nun’s letter sent to the Ontario Indian Affairs regional director general and copied to the district manager that outlines the horrors in one of the district fly-in villages. How Rager formulates a plan with the help of the now ex-Catholic nun, Marie Brunelle, to reveal these secrets, constitutes the story of a man’s struggle to seek redemption and bring justice to a long neglected and forgotten people. Shuniah-Ogama is set within the vast region of northwestern Ontario above the rail line – often referred to as the ‘Blue Forest’ for the blue of the many lakes, rivers, creeks, and bogs within the green of the coniferous forest, bush, and eskers – it is one of the most remote and isolated regions of Canada.