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A dramatic narrative about one small community with universal resonance, a tale about the grand themes of power and law, security and self-respect. Are there times when taking the law into your own hands is not only understandable but the responsible thing to do?
In June 2013, three citizens of a small Cape Breton town murdered their neighbor, Phillip Boudreau. Two Landry cousins and skipper Dwayne Samson (husband to a Landry daughter) saw Boudreau in his boat, about to vandalize their lobster traps. Like so many times before, Boudreau was about to cost them thousands of dollars out of their seasonal livelihood. One man took out a rifle and fired four shots at Boudreau and his boat. To finish the job, they rammed their own larger boat over the top of his, then completed the day's fishing. Boudreau's body was never found.
Boudreau was a Cape Breton original - a resourceful small-time criminal who had unnerved and entertained the community for two decades, and spent nearly half his adult life in prison. He was funny and frightening. He would taunt his victims, and threaten them with arson if they reported him. Meanwhile the police and fishing officers were frustrated, and hobbled by shrinking budgets. Boudreau seemed a miscreant who would plague the village forever. Was the Boudreau killing a direct reaction to credible threats that the authorities were powerless to neutralize? SILVER DONALD CAMERON's literary works included plays, films, radio and TV scripts, hundreds of magazine articles, and nineteen books. Cameron had also been a professor or writer-in-residence at seven universities and Dean of Community Studies at Cape Breton University. In 2019 he was appointed the first Farley Mowat Chair in Environment at Cape Breton University. He died in June 2020, soon after completing the manuscript of Blood in the Water.
In June 2013, three citizens of a small Cape Breton town murdered their neighbor, Phillip Boudreau. Two Landry cousins and skipper Dwayne Samson (husband to a Landry daughter) saw Boudreau in his boat, about to vandalize their lobster traps. Like so many times before, Boudreau was about to cost them thousands of dollars out of their seasonal livelihood. One man took out a rifle and fired four shots at Boudreau and his boat. To finish the job, they rammed their own larger boat over the top of his, then completed the day's fishing. Boudreau's body was never found.
Boudreau was a Cape Breton original - a resourceful small-time criminal who had unnerved and entertained the community for two decades, and spent nearly half his adult life in prison. He was funny and frightening. He would taunt his victims, and threaten them with arson if they reported him. Meanwhile the police and fishing officers were frustrated, and hobbled by shrinking budgets. Boudreau seemed a miscreant who would plague the village forever. Was the Boudreau killing a direct reaction to credible threats that the authorities were powerless to neutralize? SILVER DONALD CAMERON's literary works included plays, films, radio and TV scripts, hundreds of magazine articles, and nineteen books. Cameron had also been a professor or writer-in-residence at seven universities and Dean of Community Studies at Cape Breton University. In 2019 he was appointed the first Farley Mowat Chair in Environment at Cape Breton University. He died in June 2020, soon after completing the manuscript of Blood in the Water.