Book description
Jason Stevens is an angry 15-year-old when his parents decide to move
from Toronto to Lucan, Ontario, site of the notorious 1880 massacre of
the Irish-Canadian Donnelly family. In the big city, Jason's spate of
petty thievery earned him a sentence of community service under the
tutelege of his grandfather, an eccentric retired school teacher, who
is building a museum devoted to the history of Lucan.
Now even unhappier than he was in Toronto, Jason falls in with a gang
of youth called the White Boys, who are involved with the local drug
trade and who are terrorizing the neighbourhood, much as the Donnellys
were once accused of doing.
While performing his community service, Jason finds himself becoming
enthralled with the Donnelly story. With the help of a ghost of
someone who may have had something to do with the butchery of the
Donnellys, Jason searches for answers both in history and in his own life.
David McRae was an elementary and secondary school teacher and
librarian for 35 years. For 15 years he taught Canadian history at the
intermediate and senior secondary levels. McRae has a master of
education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the
University of Toronto. He lives in Caledon, Ontario.
