Canadian True Crime: Jon S. Dellandrea & Lyndsie Bourgon at the Toronto International Festival of Authors

Investigative journalism shines a light on complex thieving stories in Canada, in the newest true crime books by Jon S. Dellandrea and Lyndsie Bourgon. Jon Dellandrea will chronicle the incredible and unbelievable trial of the largest fraud case in Canadian history, involving forgeries of the art of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven in the 1960s, and the exploited artist William Firth Macgregor (whose work may still be in homes today, under a different name), as revealed in his book The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case. In a conversation about her book Tree Thieves, Bourgon will expose North American’s billion-dollar timber black market, and how its history intersects with class, culture, environmentalism and Indigenous theft even today.

Saturday, October 1
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON M5J 2G8