It was winter 1983, and I was in Burin, on the south coast of Newfoundland, working on a story for the CBC, when it struck me, more or less out of the blue: Hey, you were born here. The actual location of my birth was what they called a “cottage hospital,” part of a system of small medical facilities scattered across the…
Linden MacIntyre
Linden MacIntyre is the author of The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Tsunami. He won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Bishop’s Man.