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Robert Longpré Canadian Author

IT'S ALL ABOUT ROOTS

Writer, retired educator, and Canadian storyteller.

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.

THE FAMILY SAGA

Les Longpré

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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Recent Writing

Well, It Is National Truth and Reconciliation Day In Canada

Why is this important? Well, it is more important than being a national holiday for people to have a day off work or classes. My family, the Longpré clan, arrived from France in the late 1600s. The place wasn’t empty. […]

ADD And Getting Older

There is no doubt about it. It is getting harder to focus on a task and finish it. There have been changes made to this site and there are more changes to come. I know that you, as a reader […]

The River and the Fisherman

A moment along the Mekong River in Laos They say the Mekong is a river only in the way a body is a body. Those who live along its banks step toward the water with a quietness that borders on […]

“Whatever reality may be, it will to some extent be shaped by the lens through which we see it.”
James Hollis