Richard Bedford Bennett, Canada's 11th prime minister, was perceived to be a fat cat out of touch with the lives of the average Canadian suffering through the depression. Yet R.B. secretly gave away $1 million of his own money in answer heart-wrenching letters of hardship written to him during the 1930s. This book describes how Canadian society, bracing for a second world war in the rise of European fascism, became afraid of its young - the unemployed, energetic masses - and tried to to force these "untouchables" into camps far away from city centres fearing their despair and anger. A tale that will resonate with teenagers today.