WINNER of the 2021 Atlantic Book Awards' Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award\nShortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book\nA brutal murder in a small Maritime fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the nature of good and evil, in this masterfully told true story.\nIn June 2013, three upstanding citizens of a small Cape Breton town cold-bloodedly murdered their neighbour, Phillip Boudreau, at sea. While out checking their lobster traps, two Landry cousins and skipper Dwayne Samson saw Boudreau in his boat, the Midnight Slider, about to vandalize their lobster traps. Like so many times before, Boudreau was about to cost them thousands of dollars out of their seasonal livelihood. One man took out a rifle and fired four shots at Boudreau and his boat. To finish the job, they rammed their own larger boat over the top of his speedboat. Boudreau's body was never found. Then they completed the day's fishing and went home to Petit de Grat on Isle Madame.\nBoudreau was a Cape Breton original--an inventive small-time criminal who had terrorized and entertained Petit de Grat for two decades. He had been in prison for nearly half his adult life. He was funny and frightening, loathed, loved, and feared. One neighbour says he would steal the beads off Christ's moccasins--then give the booty away to someone in need. He would taunt his victims, and threaten them with arson if they reported him. He was accused of one attempted rape. Meanwhile the police and the Fisheries officers were frustrated, cowed, and hobbled by shrinking budgets. Boudreau seemed invincible, a miscreant who would plague the village forever.\nCameron, a resident of the area since 1971, argues that the Boudreau killing was a direct reaction to credible and dire threats that the authorities were powerless to neutralize. As many local people have said, if those fellows hadn't killed him, someone else would have. Like Say Nothing, The Perfect Storm, The Golden Spruce, and Into Thin Air, this book offers a dramatic narrative set in a unique, lovingly drawn setting, where a story about one small community has universal resonance. This is a story not about lobster, but about the grand themes of power and law, security and self-respect. It raises a disturbing question: Are there times when taking the law into your own hands is not only understandable but the responsible thing to do?

Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes

Silver Donald Cameron

VIKING

The Living Beach

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

CDG Books Canada

You work three times longer than the average industrial worker--at half the pay. Death is an occupational hazard. And the law says you can't have a union. What do you do? In 1970, Everett Richardson and about 250 other Nova Scotia fishermen went on a fifteen-month struggle that rent the fabric of the province's society, gave rise to headlines across the country and became the rallying point and cause c&#65533;l&#65533;bre for Canadian labour as a whole. For those whom it meant the most, this classic labour struggle was a bitter education in the realities of corporate capitalism. The Education of Everett Richardson reveals the way "the system" works, and gives a workers-eye view of its dehumanizing results, capturing individual dramas and collective heroism. A rare and singularly moving book, it is a unique contribution to the understanding of Canadian labour. Journalist, columnist, scriptwriter and educator, Silver Donald Cameron, CM, ONS has published 19 books. He is currently Farley Mowat Chair in Environment at Cape Breton University, and also Host and Executive Producer of TheGreenInterview.com. His true-crime book, Blood in the Water, will be published by Penguin in 2020.

The Education of Everett Richardson: The Story of the Nova Scotia Fisherman's Strike, 1970-71

Paper Tiger Enterprises

Blood in the Water

Swift Press

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