The island walkers
Working class families
Textile workers
Ontario, fiction
Authors, Canadian (English)
Textile industry
Fiction, sagas
Labor unions
Social classes
Fiction
For generations, the Walkers have lived on the island in a small, working class mill town beside Ontario's Attawan River. In the summer of 1965 their peace is shattered when a union organiser comes to town and Alf Walker is forced to choose between loyalty to his friends and advancement up the compa…
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