Murray Harvey is a well known newspaper columnist and adult educator from The Pas.  He has written his first novel From This Valley which is a historical adventure novel set in the Canadian West.  Harvey says it is fiction but was partly inspired by the life of his great grandfather.  He says its about a young soldier who is disenchanted with the U.S. army in the way they were treating native Americans so he deserted on the way to Little Big Horn and came up to Canada into the Cypress Hills and had quite a number of adventures in our Canadian west and eventually wound up in the Red River Settlement. Then from there he came up to The Pas and that’s kind of based on his great grandfather’s story who came to The Pas in the late 1800s to work for the Hudson Bay Company.

Harvey will be at the Flin Flon Public Library Wednesday night from 7 to 8 for a book signing and discussion on his novel.