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  • ISBN 978-1-897009-60-4
  • 236 pages
  • $19.95
  • July 2011

Bemocked of Destiny: Centenary Edition

Aeneas McCharles and Martin McAllister

“The actual struggles and experiences of a Canadian pioneer, and the recollections of a lifetime”

by Aeneas McCharles (1844-1906)

Bemocked of Destiny was first published in 1908, a condition of the last will and testament of an extraordinary Canadian pioneer. Teacher, speculator, geologist, prospector, community organizer and outspoken advisor to provincial and federal politicians, McCharles’s first-person account of life in the heady days of the late-19th-century frontier offer us more than a glimpse into the age in which he lived. Continue»

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Correction about “At the Table”

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Posted on January 18, 2012

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Posted on January 18, 2012

John Johnston “at the table”

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Posted on January 17, 2012

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