We Lived a Life and Then Some
The Life, Death, and Life of a Mining Town
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1996
- Category
- Social History
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896357065
- Publish Date
- Dec 1996
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926662473
- Publish Date
- Dec 1996
- List Price
- $15.99
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Based on in-depth oral interviews with local residents, and rich archival sources, We Lived A Life and Then Some relates the common person’s struggle to overcome harsh working conditions and government neglect. The unique culture of the hardrock mining town of Cobalt is exposed through the eyes of retired miners, young welfare mothers, and grade-school children. Angus and Griffin reveal why, in spite of great adversity, Cobalt remains a distinctive and cohesive working-class community.
About the authors
Charlie Angus has served as the NDP Member of Parliament for Timmins-James Bay since 2004. In 1985 he formed the Juno-nominated alt-country band Grievous Angels. He became involved in politics through his organizing efforts to stop the Adams Mine garbage proposal and numerous plans to import PCBs to Northern Ontario. He is author/co-author of five books on Northern Ontario life and culture including We Lived A Life And Then Some and Mirrors of Stone.
Brit Griffin co-authored a non-fiction history (We Lived A Life And Then Some: the life, death and life of a mining town, Between the Lines, 1996 ) that was listed as a must-read on the 2011 CBC Cross-Country Check-up Summer Reading list. For ten years she ran an independent magazine (Highgrader Magazine )on rural and resource-based communities. She was the recipient of two American Catholic press awards for her writing on family life, and has worked as a free-lancer in print, video and radio. Griffin currently works as a researcher for Timiskaming First Nation, an Algonquin community in northern Quebec. She lives in the town of Cobalt and is the mother of three daughters. The Wintermen is her first novel.
Other titles by Charlie Angus
Cobalt
Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
Children of the Broken Treaty
Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
Impressions of Temiskaming
A Collection of Photographs of Temiskaming, Ontario
Unlikely Radicals
The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War
Les Costello
Canada's Flying Father
Mirrors of Stone
Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier