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Workman Street: Wretched Lives in a Land of Plenty
My main objective was really to use the tool of a novelized autobiography to memorialize the otherwise never to be known murder of my dear ‘father’, Joseph Omer Ovide Bourdeau, and thereby identify his two murderers, my bi-ological mother, Georgette Chevalier, and her boyfriend, Léopold Legault – before I soon en-ter that eternal silence myself.
While the true and sad story told here about the wretched lives of people in a particular ghetto of Montréal in Canada pales when compared to the hell holes found in so many places around our planet, it nevertheless became a necessary background to un-derstand the story presented here.
It embodies in great part the serious damage caused when a religious establishment takes over the thoughts and behavior of a whole people – especially when the governance in place seeks its support.
What also follows after this forward highlights in direct and indirect ways the role and absence of re-sponsibility and lack of accountability from economi-cally better off and more educated people in authori-ty, including the majority of politicians, the whole Church establishment and the old traditional profes-sions in Québec, which chose to ignore the vast ma-jority of the unfortunate occupants of the various ghettos of poverty and despair in the province of Québec.
While the true and sad story told here about the wretched lives of people in a particular ghetto of Montréal in Canada pales when compared to the hell holes found in so many places around our planet, it nevertheless became a necessary background to un-derstand the story presented here.
It embodies in great part the serious damage caused when a religious establishment takes over the thoughts and behavior of a whole people – especially when the governance in place seeks its support.
What also follows after this forward highlights in direct and indirect ways the role and absence of re-sponsibility and lack of accountability from economi-cally better off and more educated people in authori-ty, including the majority of politicians, the whole Church establishment and the old traditional profes-sions in Québec, which chose to ignore the vast ma-jority of the unfortunate occupants of the various ghettos of poverty and despair in the province of Québec.
282 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 16, 2018
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