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Money Boss
by
Robert Sanderson
In 1976, John Rager, the newly arrived Indian Affairs Grayson 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. 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 - and the destructive role of Indian Affairs. 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. Money Boss is set within the vast region of northwestern Ontario above the rail line – a region of 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.
"A bleak and damning story of government neglect of Indigenous communities." —Kirkus Reviews
Robert Sanderson has over four decades of economic development experience in Canada’s arctic and sub-arctic. He is co-author with Paul Driben of When Freedom is Lost – the Dark Side of the Relationship Between the Government and the Fort Hope Band (published by University of Toronto Press 1983, reprinted in 1986 and 1990). He resides in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
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