Out of the Shadows

GORDON HENDERSON is an accomplished journalist and documentary filmmaker. His company 90th Parallel Productions has produced more than a hundred premium documentaries which have run on all major Canadian networks and been broadcast around the world. Many have won national and international awards.

Henderson is no stranger to Canadian history. He was a parliamentary correspondent, a current affairs producer and a senior series producer of the CBC/Radio-Canada Canada: A People’s History.

Henderson is the author of the novel Man in the Shadows, built around the assassination of Irish-Canadian politician D’Arcy McGee.

For more than a decade he taught in the Journalism department at Toronto’s Ryerson (now Metropolitan) University. He lives in Toronto with his wife Pam.

DAVID BOUCHARD is an Indigenous Canadian of French, Chippewa and Osage heritage. He is the author of over 70 books offered in English, French and several Indigenous languages.

In 2010 he was named as a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2014, an Oshawa Public School was named after him. In 2016, for his dedication to the revitalization of Indigenous languages, stories and culture, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree.

The father of three and the step father of two, David lives in Victoria with his wife Vicki yet he remains forever a prairie boy.