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Charlie Angus

CHARLIE ANGUS is a nationally recognized politician, author, and musician. He has published nine books and is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the Trillium Book Award finalist Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower. Angus has served in the Canadian Parliament for twenty years. He has earned a national reputation as a fierce fighter for social justice and Indigenous rights. Angus was the founding member of Toronto punk band L’etranger. He is the leader of the roots band Grievous Angels; their ninth album is Last Call for Cinderella. Angus lives in Cobalt, Ontario, with his wife, author Brit Griffin. They have three daughters.

Books by Charlie Angus

Dangerous Memory

Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed

by (author) Charlie Angus

Cobalt

Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower

by (author) Charlie Angus

Cobalt

The Making of a Mining Superpower

by (author) Charlie Angus

Children of the Broken Treaty

Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream

by (author) Charlie Angus

Impressions of Temiskaming

A Collection of Photographs of Temiskaming, Ontario

by (author) Michael Werner
foreword by Charlie Angus

Unlikely Radicals

The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War

by (author) Charlie Angus

Les Costello

Canada's Flying Father

by (author) Charlie Angus

Mirrors of Stone

Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier

by (author) Charlie Angus
photographs by Louie Palu

Industrial Cathedrals of the North

by (author) Charlie Angus
photographs by Louie Palu
translated by Marguerite Andersen

We Lived a Life and Then Some

The Life, Death, and Life of a Mining Town

by (author) Charlie Angus & Brit Griffin
illustrated by Sally Lawrence & Rob Moir