Marie Gage
A Ring of Promises came from genealogical research into my paternal family history. As I child I had heard things like "your grandfather missed the Titanic", "your grandfather stole a canoe and had a great adventure", and "your grandmother sailed to Canada after the sinking of the Lusitania during the First World War". I wanted to know what really happened and started digging. I not only found an interesting family story but a piece of almost forgotten Canadian History was woven into it. The history was related to what is currently a ghost town on the shores of Hudson Bay, Port Nelson and the mistreatment of the men who were lured to the site to provide the much needed labour. I became driven to commit the story to paper but there was insufficient detail to write a memoir ... so, I used some imagination to create a work of historical fiction that is firmly ensconced in the realities of the time.
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