Finding Home in the Promised Land: A Personal History of Homelessness and Social Exile

Finding Home in the Promised Land is the fruit of Jane Harris' journey through the wilderness of social exile after a violent crime left her injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness — for the second time in her life — in 2013. Her Scottish great-great grandmother Barbara's portrait opens the door into pre-Confederation Canada. Her own story lights our journey through 21st Century Canada.

She asks why Canadians fell into accepting diminished dreams, and ignoring the ob...