Author: Maggie Siggins

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.