Maggie Wheeler

Maggie is the Seaway Valley’s Queen of Crime, author of the popular Farran Mackenzie “Lost Villages” mystery novels. The historical fiction/murder mystery series is based on the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project of the 1950s. The series became a regional bestseller in Eastern Ontario; the first four novels have been used in schools in both Eastern Ontario and Upstate New York from Grade Five to post-secondary studies to teach history and English. Titles include: A Violent End (2001), The Brother of Sleep (2004), All Mortall Things (2006), On a Darkling Plain (2009), All My Worldly Goods (2017), All Will Fall Together (2021), and The Last Wave By (2022). As an active public speaker and lecturer, Maggie has spent over two decades showcasing the social, cultural and psychological impact of the St. Lawrence Seaway Project on Canadians affected—while engaging discussion on this “lost” history at local, regional, national and academic levels.