An updated edition of Herb Belcourt's remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author. The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up in a small log home near the Metis settlement of Lac Ste. Anne during the Depression. His father purchased furs from local First Nations and Metis trappers and, with arduous work, began a family fur trading business that survives to this day. When Belcourt left home at 15 to become a labourer in coal mines and sawmills, his father told him to save his money so he could work for himself. Over the next three decades, Belcourt began a...
An updated edition of Herb Belcourt's remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author. The eldest of ten children, Bel...