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Maggie Siggins

Canadian Writer, Filmmaker

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Author: Maggie Siggins

Scattered Bones

April 27, 2016 Maggie Siggins Books

Coteau Books, 2016

July, 1924. The best-selling American author, Sinclair Lewis, has weaseled his way onto the Canadian government’s annual treaty tour of northern Saskatchewan.

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Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel’s Grandmother

April 27, 2008 Maggie Siggins Books

McClelland & Stewart, hard cover edition, 2008. Available in bookstores throughout Canada. Marie-Anne Lagimodière was the most extraordinary Canadian woman of the 19thCentury.

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Bitter Embrace: White Society’s Assault on the Woodland Cree

April 27, 2005 Maggie Siggins Books

For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows Indian Reserve in northern Saskatchewan has endured a torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson’s Bay Company factors and Oblate missionaries of earlier times to the bureaucrats and police of today.

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In Her Own Time: A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women

April 27, 2000 Maggie Siggins Books

The class of ’61, R. H. King Collegiate. These were the women who were born during the war, had come of age in the 1960s and were forced by the women’s movement of the 1970s to reassess their roles in life

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Riel A Life of Revolution

April 27, 1994 Maggie Siggins Books

With each generation his persona has taken on different colours and nuances – an unrepentant traitor to Canada, a messianic prophet who led an unsuspecting people astray, a pathetic tyrant unfairly executed because he was insane.

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Revenge of the Land A Century of Greed, Tragedy, and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm

April 27, 1991 Maggie Siggins Books

In August 1987, a grisly murder took place on a farm near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. A teenaged boy shot and killed his grandparents and then spent the month partying with his brother and their friends.

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A CANADIAN TRAGEDY JoAnn and Colin Thatcher: A Story of Love and Hate

April 27, 1985 Maggie Siggins Books

Colin Thatcher was a golden boy, the son of a former premier of Saskatchewan. Eventually Colin launched his own political career. But, as he rose to prominence and to a seat on the Saskatchewan cabinet, all was not well at home.

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Brian & the Boys: A Story of Gang Rape

January 1, 1984 Maggie Siggins Books

This is the story of a generation that went bad. Of six guys who lived for booze and dope, sex and rock. When they finally had their showdown with the Law, they decided to sink or swim together. They sank.

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