Here’s an article that I wrote a few years ago about the Montreal parishioners who were interned at Spirit Lake Internment Camp. It was published in a book by St. Michael’s Church in 2011 when they celebrated their 100th anniversary.  By January 5, 1915, there were 364 “Austrians” (ie, Ukrainians) interned at Spirit Lake.

While doing research for my 2007 novel, Prisoners in the Promised Land, I visited the place where the internment camp had been. I also laid flowers at the internee grave site. It is shameful that this grave site is abandoned and in disarray, on property sold to a farmer.

 

Never Forget.

 

A merry postal elf just dropped off a box filled with author copies of Making Bombs, in French!

Underground Soldier is a STARRED selection for CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens!

Stolen Child and Making Bombs for Hitler were starred selections in previous year.  So happy for Larissa, Lida and Luka!

 

 

Library Ladies extraordinaire Karen Upper and JoAnne Richards invited Natalie Hyde and myself up to the Parry Sound area for a series of carefully coordinated school visits. Karen and JoAnne kindly hosted me and Natalie in their own homes, and we were treated like royalty! We also got a chance to see for ourselves JoAnne’s famous little library of the near north, which is at the end of her drive. Here’s JoAnne, me and Natalie, little library in the background.

Wow! Speak about thorough and enthusiastic review! Thank you, Libris Notes!

My favourite quote is this: “Dance of the Banished is an excellent piece of historical fiction and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s best work to date.”