J. Edward Chamberlin’s renowned If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and the Pearson Writers’ Trust Award. He worked on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry; was Senior Research Associate with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples; has worked extensively on Aboriginal land claims; and has lectured widely on literary, historical and cultural issues. His other books include The Harrowing of Eden: White Attitudes Towards Native Americans; Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies; and Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations. He is University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and lives with his wife, Lorna Goodison, in Halfmoon Bay, B.C.

The Banker and the Blackfoot: A Memoir of my Grandfather in Chinook Country

In his remarkable and entertaining memoir of his beloved grandfather, J. Edward Chamberlin conjures up vividly the never-before-told story of a particular time and place not long after Canada was founded. Set in Fort Macleod at the turn of the last century, this is the story of when “Sorreltop Jack” became friends with Crop Eared Wolf, over two decades, from 1885 to 1905, when the people in the foothills of modern-day Alberta — First Nation and Métis, rancher and settler — respectfully set out to accommodate Blackfoot sovereignty and new settlement, before Canada broke its Treaty promises to the First Peoples.