04/10/2026
Join us on Monday, April 27, 5-7pm, in the Ceremonial Hall at the First Peoples' Gathering House* on SFU’s Burnaby Campus, for a talk with the authors of Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong.
A compelling fireside chat will be followed by an audience Q&A and a booksigning. Books will be available to purchase from .
This event is co-presented by and the Publishing Program at SFU. Register through linkinbio or at publishing/sfu.ca
When Larry Grant talks about reconciliation, he uses the verb reconciling, an ongoing, unfinished process we’re all going through, Indigenous and settler, immigrant and Canadian-born. “I have been reconciling my whole life, with my inner self,” Larry explains. “To not belong was forced upon me by the colonial society that surrounded me. But reconciling with myself is part of all that.”
It’s taken most of Larry’s long life for his extraordinary heritage to be appreciated. He was born in a hop field outside Vancouver in 1936, the son of a Musqueam cultural leader and an immigrant from a village in Guangdong, China. In 1940, when the Indian agent discovered that their mother had married a non-status man, Larry and his two siblings were stripped of their status. With one stroke of the pen, they were disenfranchised—no longer recognized as Indigenous.
“Working on this book, we walked the streets of Chinatown and Strathcona and went on road trips up and down the river. I learned so much about my home city, from a very different, very grounded perspective.” – Scott Steedman, co-author
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