Who is Robert Marchand? Heir apparent to William H. Johnson

Bob was born in Toronto Canada in 1941,during which time his fathe was fighting the war that wasn’t supposed to happen. The first four years of Bob’s 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.
Devastated by the horrors of World War II, physical as well as emotional abuses by the father became the normal routine around the farm, especially after Bob’s father was suddenly stricken with crippling rheumatoid arthritis. Puzzled as to the reason of the constant abuses by his father, Bob eventually discovered that his father suspected that not only Bob was not his son but was the product of his wife’s infidelity with one of his own brothers.
Bob did manage to escape the difficult situation 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. Required by his parents to get a job at age thirteen, Bob worked on road construction, at sawmills and guiding of black bear and moose hunters.
Leaving the abusive 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 (2007) is the true story of his traumatic young life on that remote farm in Northern Ontario.