Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. His novel To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Heartbreaking without being saccharine, The Wake is a powerful and compelling read. The author’s hard-rock miner father moved there in the 1940s to work for the fluorspar mining operation that rolled into the poverty-stricken community, which was recovering from a natural disaster and an unexpected collapse of the area’s crucial fisheries.In 1929, an earthquake-related tsunami struck southern Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula, washing homes out to sea and killing 28 people. The story of environmental destruction and industrial exploitation that followed is narrated in “The Wake.”Decades later, the mine was discovered to be radioactive, its poor conditions linked to the deaths of possibly hundreds of miners who MacIntyre writes “had been suffering from mysterious and usually fatal illnesses since about 1945.”If it weren’t for the tsunami and ensuing poverty, the “shoestring” mine would likely never have broken ground in St. Lawrence, MacIntyre contends, and he himself would never have been born there.Working on “The Wake,” available Aug. 27, the writer said a universal tale began to emerge from a local, personal story on the human rights violations that often follow environmental disasters and extractive industries.It took years of picking away at tidbits of his family’s life in St. Lawrence before MacIntyre began seriously working on the book, though he wishes he had started the process in the mid-1980s, when more of the miners were living.“This story that sat in the middle of my life basically just stayed there,” the author said from Cape Breton in a recent interview. I learned more about NL history reading this book (twice) than I've learned in years. Hundreds of miners would die; hundreds more would struggle through shortened lives profoundly compromised by lung diseases ranging from silicosis and bronchitis to cancer. The most destructive earthquake-related event in Newfoundland's history, the disaster killed 28 people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute. His most recent book is The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Tsunami. It took days for the outside world to find out about the death and damage caused by the tsunami, which forever changed the lives of the inhabitants of the fishing outports along the Burin Peninsula.Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning writer Linden MacIntyre was born near St. Lawrence, N.L., one of the villages virtually destroyed by the tsunami. Author and broadcaster Linden MacIntyre is pictured in an undated photo provided August 21, 2019. … The investigative reporter and novelist was born in St. Lawrence, N.L., where his new book The Wake is set. “I know what it smells like; it feels like a taste in your mouth. Canadian Space Agency set to get first female president as space race gains steamWestern University kicks off pandemic-adjusted residence move-inDeath of Black man in N.Y. being investigated after video shows police put hood over his headPilot sees man in jetpack while approaching LAX airportBiden to visit Kenosha, Trump appears to urge people to vote twice in latest criticism of mail-in votingDwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson says he, his family have recovered from coronavirusPrime Minister Trudeau speaks one-on-one with Global BC

Linden MacIntyre shares personal connection to Newfoundland disaster in ‘The Wake’ In the course of his exploration, MacIntyre reveals the ways that these so-called acts … As a journalist Linden MacIntyre covered adversity around the world, sharing the experiences of those caught in tragic circumstances, but he’s waited decades to bring the story of his hometown to the page.The investigative reporter and novelist was born in St. Lawrence, N.L., where his new book “The Wake” is set. As a journalist Linden MacIntyre covered adversity around the world, sharing the experiences of those caught in tragic circumstances, but he’s waited decades to bring the story of his hometown to the page. The author draws from family and local history in The Wake, his non-fiction book on a …

Novelist and investigative journalist Linden MacIntyre explores the deadly aftermath of the 1929 earthquake in his latest book, “The Wake: The …

MacIntyre doesn’t attribute his father’s death directly to his time in St. Lawrence, but rather his decades of physically demanding work in various mines.Revisiting their time together made for emotional work at times, MacIntyre said.His research also unearthed forgotten letters written by his father, giving the author insight into his emotional and physical well-being.Composed in 1961, when links were being drawn between miners’ deaths and radiation, Dan MacIntyre described how the talk of radiation was weighing him, making it hard to focus.“Many, many years later, I find that letter and say, ‘Holy God, what was he trying to tell me?”‘ MacIntyre recalled. The Wake is a nonfiction book by Linden MacIntyre. during the 20th century.

Giant waves, up to three storeys high, hit the coast at a 100 kilometres per hour, flooding dozens of communities and washing entire houses out to sea. On Nov. 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula. Linden MacIntyre is an author and journalist whose books include The Bishop’s Man, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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