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My roots run deep in Canada, through French, English, Scottish, Irish, Spanish, and First Nations bloodlines. These are the wells I draw from, in fiction and non-fiction alike.
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A mythic tale of gods walking among mortals, of the sacred showing up inside the ordinary. The newest novel from Retired Eagle Books.
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Three centuries. One family. From Guillaume, who crossed from France after 1685, to the present day, the story of a family and the country that grew around it.
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In the late 1600s, especially on frontiers, during wars, migrations, religious persecution, epidemics, and displacement, people could be: No matter how many genealogy sites I search, even with the help of AI [more than one – Gemini, Claude, Augure, Copilot, […]
Alberta did not vote to join Canada. Canada created the province of Alberta. But the province wasn’t empty. Americans had moved in wanting to escape American government. If they had been asked for becoming a province of Canada, there is […]
For a few years, a mantra has been “Canada is broken.” I am a Canadian and I have family from coast to coast, literally. More than that, my family has been on Canadian soil since the late 1600’s. I was […]
“Whatever reality may be, it will to some extent be shaped by the lens through which we see it.”James Hollis