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Childhood Summers: Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden: On sale Tuesday, the story is an arresting fictional look at the sometimes brutal conflict between the Jesuits, the Huron-Wendat Nation and the Iroquois in the New World of the mid-1600s, according to Times Colonist. Boyden also spent his childhood summers on Beckwith Island in Ontario's picturesque Georgian Bay area. Beckwith overlooks Christian Island, where Hurons fled with Jesuit missionaries during battle with the Iroquois and TORONTO - Acclaimed author Joseph Boyden says his highly anticipated new novel, "The Orenda," closes a chapter on a goal he's had his entire life. It's a rich period of history Boyden who has Irish, Scottish and Metis roots has been fascinated with since childhood, when he learned about it as a student at Toronto's Jesuit-run Brebeuf College School. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.