Bruce Fraser – On Potato Mountain

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A Chilcotin Saga
Book 1

On Potato Mountain is a thriller about love, honor and revenge that is set in the untamed Chilcotins.

On Thanksgiving of ’58, rancher Bordy Hanlon is gunned down in his living room. His adopted son, Noah, is charged with his murder. Stan Hewitt, an alcoholic lawyer from Williams Lake, defends the young man before a white jury and later before a Native circle of elders.

Not only a tale of love and mystery, it is also a story of a remarkable land and its people.

On Potato Mountain is the first book in Bruce Fraser’s Chilcotin trilogy.

“If the reader wishes to begin to understand the deep magic of the Chilcotin, then this book is a gift. It reveals characters who are shadows of great historical natives — people and events alive once again and protected by spiritual mountains, Potato and Ts-yl-os.”
Lorne Dufour, author of Jacob’s Prayer, shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize

“While fiction, this book is very relevant today, as it gives us an understanding of how deeply attached the Chilcotin people are to their land. I hope they enjoy this book as much as I did.”
Senator Nancy Greene Raine, Director of Skiing, Sun Peaks Resort

Biography

Bruce Fraser is the author of the novel On Potato Mountain: A Chilcotin Mystery. The first book in his Chilcotin trilogy, it explores the relations between Canadians of European descent and First Nations peoples. The second volume of the trilogy, titled The Jade Frog, was published in December 2014, and the third volume, Noah’s Raven, came out in 2017.

His other work includes a number of short stories, The Partner and Squires and Morley (published in the law magazine The Advocate) and the novella titled The Priory.

After graduating in law from the University of British Columbia, Bruce articled to Peter Dow QC at 2 Garden Court in London where he ate dinners at the Middle Temple, London. He practiced law for forty-six years as a partner in the Vancouver firm of Richards Buell Sutton, and its predecessor firm in Prince George.

Bruce has handled a wide variety of cases and pled before the Supreme Court of Canada. Active in justice accessibility issues, he is the founding President of Access Pro Bono, and was awarded the 2012 Harry Rankin award. Bruce has handled a wide variety of cases and pled before the Supreme Court of Canada. Active in justice accessibility issues, he is the founding President of Access Pro Bono, and was awarded the 2012 Harry Rankin QC Pro Bono Award by the Canadian Bar Association – BC Branch.

He and his firm have represented First Nation clients in land and fishing rights actions as well as the Crown. Bruce divides his time between Vancouver and his ranch at Lac La Hache in the Cariboo.


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