With a sure hand, Helene Brodeur continues the stories of pioneerfamilies in Northern Ontario through the hard Depression years. LikeRose-Delima, Brodeur taught in an impoverished country school; sheknew the odds against the gifted child born in a back-woods cabin.

As the Depression deepened she saw the arrival of the unemployedgathered from the city streets to travel north by rail and'homestead' in the wilderness. She understood the visions of the goldseekers and knew the greed that controlled lives in the lumberingcamps.

From a richly stocked memory, the author writes with compassionand gentle humour about the settlers who pioneered the lumbering,mining and farming regions north of North Bay.

Helene Brodeur was raised on a farm in Val–Gagne in Northern Ontario. She worked as a teacher, Information Officer with the Department of Northern Affairs, and as Director of Communications for the Treasury Board. She had always wanted to write an historical novel that would cover the history of Northern Ontario and its pioneers.

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