Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
The Women on the Bridge
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1992
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920633991
- Publish Date
- Sep 1992
- List Price
- $11.00
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Description
A provocative reconstruction of the Frog Lake Massacre of 1885 that draws on published accounts of survivors Theresa Gowanlock and William Cameron. A must read for anyone interested in the convolutions of Canadian history.
About the author
Mel Dagg is the author of three short story collections, Same Truck, Different Driver, Women on the Bridge, and Four Wheel Drift: Stories New and Selected. He has lived and worked in many parts of Canada as a teacher and technical writer, and has a PhD in Canadian literature from the University of New Brunswick.
Mel was born in Vancouver, BC, and raised on Vancouver Island. As a young man he worked as a deckhand on the famous ocean-going towboat Lloyd B. Gore. He and his wife currently divide their time between Mexico and Vancouver Island. Passage on the Cardena is Mel's first novel.