Billy Tinker
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2001
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894345330
- Publish Date
- Sep 2001
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
This is a gritty tale detailing the hardships faced by labourers (once known as "packsack miners") in Northern Saskatchewan mining camps. Billy Tinker offers a rare combination of realism and magic that draws out many of the contradictions and tests faced by Native Canadians and the working class.
About the author
Harold Johnson is the author of four novels and one work of non-fiction. After a stint in the Canadian Navy, which began at the age of seventeen, Johnson became a packsack miner and logger across northern and western Canada. In 1991 he quit the mines to pursue a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master of Law degree from Harvard University. He now works as a Crown Prosecutor in La Ronge, Saskatchewan and lives “off the grid” with his wife Joan at the north end of Montreal Lake where they continue the traditions of trapping and commercial fishing common to Harold’s Cree background.
