Speaker: Cameron Alam
TITLE: Storytelling Our Ancestors: Genealogy in Fiction
Cameron Alam will bring us along on her journey to discover the ancestor who would become the fictionalized protagonist in her book, Anangokaa. What began with an Ancestry DNA test led to correspondence and meetings with distant cousins, a journey to Cameron’s ancestral birthplace, Isle of Mull, Scotland, archival and historical research, travels to the land her ancestors settled in Upper Canada in 1804, called Baldoon, and culminated in her writing her debut novel.
This online presentation is free and open to anyone to join. Register HERE to attend. This presentation will be co-hosted with the Wallaceburg and District Museum.
Cameron Alam is the author of Anangokaa, a Kirkus starred-review novel and chosen among The Miramichi’s Review’s Best Books of 2023. Cameron lives in eastern Ontario along the St. Lawrence Seaway with her soldier husband, two children, playful dog and alpha cat. For more information on the history behind the novel, please visit: https://www.cameronalam.com/
