Michel Drouin

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The writer Michel Drouin discusses his memoir Past the End of the Road: A North Island Boyhood (Harbour Publishing, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

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Past the End of the Road: A North Island Boyhood by Michel Drouin (Harbour Publishing, 2024). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Past the End of the Road

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Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

I’ve never been to Port Hardy, which is a coastal village at the north end of Vancouver Island. But a new book takes us to this place surrounded by rugged land and raging seas, and to the mid-twentieth century at that, as it’s a memoir of the writer Michel Drouin’s boyhood in this wilderness that shapes his life. You see a coastal village on the brink of an industrial boom, what with the forestry industry, not to mention fishing, and later mining. It’s a unique childhood, and it’s BC history. The full title of the book is Past the End of the Road: A North Island Boyhood. Michel Drouin was a high school correspondent for the North Island Gazette. After graduation he worked in the forestry and fishing industries, until he was hired in 1990 as an assistant editor of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union newspaper, The Fisherman. He joined me last week from his home here in Vancouver. This new book is from Harbour Publishing. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Michel Drouin; Mr. Drouin, good morning.

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