In 1965, he and two friends sailed for Canada to ‘have a look’. There, as their parents lamented, ‘the boys forgot to come home’. After a year of teaching at Topley, B.C., Pettit ventured to Vancouver Island and found work setting chokers and scaling in a logging camp. He eventually moved to Nanaimo to teach and was principal of a number of elementary schools until retiring in 1997.

For his Masters degree at the University of Victoria he wrote the thesis Canadian Nationalism: With What Are We to Identify Ourselves? (1984), seen as sub-themes in his novels When The Curlew Cries (1998), Saturday’s Hero (2000) and Cameron’s Crossing (2006).

You can find his best selling book “The Weilmoringle Kid”  anywhere audiobooks are sold like iTunes, Amazon, CD baby etc.

Darling You’re One for the Ages.

His second book titled, “When a Curlew Cries” is based on a true story of Brian and his son returning to Australia together to track down his long lost Aboriginal students he taught in the outback 20 something years earlier.

It’s a great and very funny read.

For more info on all his books and more, please email Brian directly.  HERE.

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B.J. Pettit

280 Calder Road
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Canada V9R 6J1
Phone/Fax: 1-250-754-4876

Novel, iBook, eBook & audiobook 

The Weilmoringle Kid is a city youth just out of college dispatched at the whim of government to Weilmoringle, a drought-and-fly-ridden sheep station in the Australian Outback.

Overwhelmed by the heat, dust and flies and the prospect of enduring three years in the desolate environment, the kid strives to give the pioneer assignment a ‘fair go’. His first task is to build a school! Seventeen students appear on opening day, mostly Aboriginal children with no previous learning. There are no desks, book, blackboards, chalk, paper or supplies of any kind. There has never been electricity – and it hasn’t rained at Weilmoringle for two years. Within weeks, the enrolment swells to fifty-seven, children from five years in age to fifteen.

This is an autobiography that reads like an adventure novel, an inspiring story of resiliency with a good dose of Aussie humour at work; a story of a young man’s efforts to gain a surer sense of identity and independence. The characters are unconventional, from the postman who masterminds the advent of public education to the twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy in school for the first time and determined to depart some lessons of his own to induce the teacher to stay.

“A story told without fancy but with the flavour of those days”.  Barry Broadfoot.

“Pettit has a fine sense of shape and prose style as fresh and strong as anyone could hope for. I expect to worry about those kids for awhile.” Jack Hodgins.

“A gem of a book, one written with all the humour and wit of a Stephen Leacock novel.”  The Saanich News.

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