The Reesor Siding Tragedy: Canada's Bloodiest Labour Conflict

by Charles A Beaudoin

Overview

Northern Ontario, January 1963. Weeks of violence and rising tension, mob mentality, and failures in leadership culminated in the Reesor Siding Tragedy: a shooting that took the lives of three strikers from the Spruce Falls Pulp and Paper Company ...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781038301512
Publisher:	FriesenPress
Publication date:	04/19/2024
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 4.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Charles A. Beaudoin has a deep appreciation for history, having spent his adult life studying the subject and teaching it in high school. Charles has also worked in a paper mill, in a bush camp, in logging, and at negotiating union contracts as a union member and management negotiator. The Reesor Siding Tragedy, Charles's first book, draws on these interests and experiences, and even has a familial connection-his brother was a police officer on the scene the night of the tragedy.

In addition to writing, Charles has been a Rotarian, president of the conservative party in the Simcoe County riding, president of a minor hockey association, and president of a principal's association. He married his wife Lorraine in 1969, and the two retired to Wasaga Beach, Ontario together in 2001.