A Father's Son Robert B. Marchand A Father's Son Price: $17.99 US Robert B. Marchand ISBN: 978-0-6155076-8-2 A Fathers Son is a collection of true stories . The Author , raised on a remotely located subsistance farm in Northern Ontario by a abusive father relates, in A Fathers Son , many tales of the adventures that he experienced during his abused early formative years . While not dwelling extensively on the abuse he was subjected to during those long ago years , he does occasionally reveal some of these mental and physical abuses to the reader. Names, characters and places in A Fathers Son are either the product of the Authors imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. About The Author The William W Johnstone of Canada Robert ( Bob ) Marchand. Bob was born in Toronto Canada in 1941 while his father was fighting the war. The first four years of Bobs life were spent in the small Northern Ontario gold mining town of Kirkland Lake. After the war, the family purchased an old farm about sixteen miles South of Kirkland Lake where Bobs father attempted to glean a living from the heavily forested lands of his old farm. Bob managed to escape parental abuse when, at nine years of age, he was permitted to take out and use a little single shot .22 rifle. That little rifle gave him the means and a reason to roam about, alone through the forests of Northern Ontario. With that rifle, a fishing rod, wire snares and a few traps, Bob was able to provide much needed wild game and fish to feed the growing family. Told by his parents to get a job at age thirteen, Bob worked on road construction, at sawmills and at the guiding of black bear and moose hunters . Leaving the difficult family environment, Bob eventually made a career in the Canadian Armed Forces. Following that twenty year career, he began a second fifteen year career as a Municipal Public Works Director before beginning his third career as a building manager and a writer of novels in British Columbia , Canada . Bob has one other published book to his credit. Mindoka Memories is the true story of his traumatic young life on that remote farm in Northern Ontario .