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Poetry Canadian

The Pierre Bonga Loops

by (author) Troy Burle Bailey

Publisher
LINEBooks
Initial publish date
Jun 2010
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780981390604
    Publish Date
    Jun 2010
    List Price
    $22.00

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Out of print

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Description

A documentary poem that lays bare the black presence in the northwest, it is also about fathers and sons, now and then. Born in the 1780's Bonga was the son of freed slaves who worked for J. Sayer & Co. in 1795 at Fond du Lac. He was employed by the North West Co., the South West Co. & the American Fur Co. in their Fond du Lac Departments. Using images and text from documentary sources including the Hudson's Bay Company Archive Bailey has constructed an important, innovative and exciting book.

About the author

Troy Bailey lives in Winnipeg near the confluence of the Red and Souris rivers.

Troy Burle Bailey's profile page