Too often First Nations communities faced the blame for the careless fires of railway companies, prospectors and farmers and were driven off their lands. In his new book, Dark Day at Noon, Ed Struzik investigates.

Edward Struzik is a fellow at Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University in Kingston. His latest book is Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs and the Improbable World of Peat.

Link to story published Sept 9, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/09/09/How-Indigenous-People-Were-Blamed-Wildfire-Devastation/