Publisher's Synopsis
Key Selling Points
- Inspired by the true story of electricity coming to Britt, Ontario, in January 1952, years after much of North America had already been connected to the grid.
- This story paints a picture of what small-town life was like for children seventy years ago when there were no phones, televisions or other electronic devices for entertainment.
- Glowing illustrations by Sabrina Gendron depict the rural 1950s before electricity: oil lanterns, wood stoves, battery radios and hand pumps.
- Author Pat Lamondin Skene learned of her family's Métis heritage after it was hidden in plain sight for generations. This story is a reclamation of her Indigenous identity and her family's history in Georgian Bay, including happy memories of jigging to fiddle music and gathering flowers on the big rock overlooking the Magnetawan River.
