Blood on the Snow: The Tragedy at Reesor Siding

by Jacques Poirier, Danielle Coulombe (Afterword), Sarah Moses (Translator)

75 pages, Paperback

Published May 5, 2026

Reviews

[Jaye Latts · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a brilliantly told and illustrated story of the tragedy at Reesor Siding, when unionized employees fought against independent loggers during a strike at Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company in 1963, culminating in what has been described as the bloodiest labour conflict in Canadian history.

[Scott Neigh]

A carefully told, beautifully illustrated graphic history of a labour conflict that was one of Canada's bloodiest but that is little remembered today, in the forestry industry in northern Ontario in the area of Kapuskasing and Hearst.