Raisin Wine

Description:

Recalls the boyhood years of Ontario's future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. As a half-breed kid, he was caught between two worlds. His Native mother's fight with depression flowed from that dilemma, while his father, a white, working class, guy who never had any money, made the best home brew in the village - and his specialty was raisin wine.

subjects: Childhood and youth,  Social life and customs,  Ambassadors,  Biography,  Lieutenant governors,  Ojibwa Indians,  Racially mixed people,  Canada, biography,  Chippewas of Mnjikaning First Nation