Shuniah-Ogama: Money Boss

In 1976, John Rager, the newly arrived Indian Affairs Nakina District commerce officer lives alone in a rooming house with a deep secret. He soon discovers that many other people within the agency have secrets – in a district with mostly fly-in villages, the district manager has a terrible fear of flying; the former commerce officer and the current district supervisor of construction and capital projects take bribes; and the owner of a district air charter company is a racist who was once a member of the murderous Waffen SS. What changes everything is the arrival of a Catholic nun’s letter sent to the Ontario Indian Affairs regional director general and copied to the district manager that outlines the horrors in one of the district fly-in villages. How Rager formulates a plan with the help of the now ex-Catholic nun, Marie Brunelle, to reveal these secrets, constitutes the story of a man’s struggle to seek redemption and bring justice to a long neglected and forgotten people. Shuniah-Ogama is set within the vast region of northwestern Ontario above the rail line – often referred to as the ‘Blue Forest’ for the blue of the many lakes, rivers, creeks, and bogs within the green of the coniferous forest, bush, and eskers – it is one of the most remote and isolated regions of Canada.

• | Author: Robert Sanderson Trudeau
• | Publisher: Friesenpress
• | Publication Date: Jan 16, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1039155650
• | ISBN-13: 9781039155657