Cold Case North: The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett

By Michael Nest, Reder Deanna, Eric Bell

Book Overview

For fans of true crime, an unsolved mystery of missing persons, police conspiracies, and private investigations in an Indigenous community in northern Canada.

M tis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led M tis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady's success made politicians and clergy fear him, and he had enemies everywhere.

In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree Band Councillor and fellow activist Absolom Halkett, both men vanished without a trace from their remote lakeside camp. For 50 years rumours swirled of secret mining interests, political intrigue, assassination, and murder. Cold Case North is the story of how a small team, with the help of a local Indigenous community, exposed police failure in the original investigation, discovered new clues and testimony, and gathered the pieces of the North's most enduring missing persons puzzle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889777497
• ISBN13: 9780889777491
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.0"