Bemocked of Destiny

Centenary Edition

Edited by Martin McAllister, Aenaes McCharles

Bemocked of Destiny was first published in 1908, a condition of the last will and testament of an extraordinary Canadian pioneer. Teacher, speculator, geologist, prospector, community organizer and outspoken advisor to provincial and federal politicians, McCharles’s first-person account of life in the heady days of the late-19th-century frontier offer us more than a glimpse into the age in which he lived. The story begins with McCharles’s boyhood on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia,… (more information)