Join us for the Winnipeg launch of The True Canadians: Forgotten Nevermore (Métis Nation of Alberta). Featuring a conversation hosted by Douglas Forbes followed by a book signing.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream featuring live chat. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

For over two centuries, the Métis have fought for acknowledgement as an Indigenous people and as a Nation. This struggle has played out on the battlefield, in the courts, and at the negotiating table. The main issues centred on governance, land rights, and resources. In their new book, The True Canadians, authors Patricia Russell and David Wylynko provide readers with an engaging re-telling of Canadian history from a Métis perspective and an account of recent triumphs in the Métis quest for recognition, reconciliation, and Nationhood status within Canada. With a Foreword by former Prime Minister Paul Martin, the book chronicles Métis interactions with major world figures, including Queen Elizabeth II and Pope Francis, and spans the tenures of prime ministers from John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau.

Patricia Russell formerly worked as a journalist and as a communications manager with the Métis Nation of Alberta. She is a descendant of the Ladouceur and Sanderson Métis families of Lac La Biche, Fort Chipewyan, and Fort Fitzgerald in Alberta and of Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories.

David Wylynko is an award-winning writer and novelist, and previously worked as a journalist for newspapers and magazines in Canada and abroad, including the Ottawa Citizen and Canadian Geographic. After his journalism career, David launched the communications consulting firm, West Hawk Associates. David is the author of several books, including the hockey novel Puck Luck. He is currently completing his PhD in English literary studies at the University of Guelph.

Host Doug Forbes is a partner at TDS who practises in the areas of Corporate/Commercial Law with an emphasis on transactions and financing; in Real Estate Law, with an emphasis on buying, selling, financing, development, and leasing; and in Condominium Law with an emphasis on development, governance, buying, selling, and financing. Doug also assists many organizations, profit and non profit, corporate and non corporate with governance and general operational issues. Doug acts for a wide range of clients, including large, medium, and small businesses, public and private corporations, professional corporations, non profit organizations, real estate developers, property management corporations, and condominium corporations. Doug advises clients on local, provincial, national, and international matters. Doug has been a sessional lecturer for the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, Business Transactions course.