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Mattawa Broken Dreams: Memoirs of a New Ontario Country Doctor

By Benoït Cazabon, Louis Chenard (Translator), Olivier Lasser (Illustrator)
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By Benoït Cazabon, Louis Chenard (Translator), Olivier Lasser (Illustrator)
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In 1889, Dr. Sylvain de Caseneuve arrives in New Ontario, a region recently opened to settlers, many of whom are French-Canadians. Swept up by the spirit of Mattawa's thriving community, his many endeavours to offer physical and moral care are thwarted by commercial interests and complacent government officials. Reviewing his diary, diligently kept over 29 years, de Caseneuve relives his tumultuous love affair and eventual marriage to Jasmine Fife, with whom he has a son, Maxence. Simmering...