My grandfather originally wrote this book primarily as a memoir of the family's experiences in the Canadian backwoods in the years immediately after World War II. But it is also a diary of a pocket of wilderness that, having mostly recovered its essential nature from the ravages of the turn-of-the-century timber boom, would then become the epicenter of 1950's uranium development (driven by Cold War imperatives) in the region around Elliot and Quirke Lakes.
My grandfather originally wrote this book primarily as a memoir of the family's experiences in the Canadian backwoods in the years immediately after W...
