Cold Case North
- Author Name: Michael Nest with Deanna Reder and Eric Bell
- Award Year: 2022
- Publisher: University of Regina Press
- Publication Date: 2020
- ISBN: 9780889777491
About the Book
For fans of true crime, an unsolved mystery of missing persons, police conspiracies, and private investigations in an Indigenous community in northern Canada. Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady’s success made politicians and clergy fear him, and he had enemies everywhere. In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree Band Councillor and fellow activist Absolom Halkett, both men vanished without a trace from their remote lakeside camp. For 50 years rumours swirled of secret mining interests, political intrigue, assassination, and murder. "Cold Case North" is the story of how a small team, with the help of a local Indigenous community, exposed police failure in the original investigation, discovered new clues and testimony, and gathered the pieces of the North’s most enduring missing persons puzzle.
About the Author
Michael Nest is a freelance researcher and award-winning author whose work focuses on mining and corruption. Michael lives in Montréal. / Deanna Reder is a Cree-Métis literary critic and an associate professor in English and First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University. Deanna lives in Vancouver./ Eric Bell is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and the owner of La Ronge Emergency Medical Services. Eric lives in La Ronge, SK.