THE MASTER OF THE MILL
This book is a painstakingly researched, prophetic attempt to trace the effects of industrial mechanization on individuals, societies and civilization. Set in northwestern Ontario in 1938, the book focuses on the conflicts between the four generations of the Clark family, owners of a flour mill. The story is primarily told through the recollections of Senator Samuel Clark, the elderly humanitarian hero of the novel who, before he dies, longs to explain and justify his responsibility and guilt in the creation of the colossal empire which has turned both his father and his son into false masters, slaves of the mill.