Boreal

Shooting the Messenger

A Whistleblower's Tale

To Lucette

to the people of Ashcroft, British Columbia who made it possible for a French-Canadian family down on its luck to establish roots in that most beautiful of provinces

and

to Glenna from Salt Lake City, Utah, her mother and stepfather for countless kindnesses not forgotten.

A very special “thank you” to Ann Hyland for her thoughtful suggestions, and for her efforts in eradicating the bane of writers expressing themselves in another language, the malapropism.