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The Fringe Dwellers
The Fringe Dwellers is a 1986 film directed by Bruce Beresford, based on the 1961 novel "The Fringe Dwellers" by Western Australian author Nene Gare. The film is about a young Aboriginal girl who dreams of life beyond the family camp that sits on the fringe of white society. "The Fringe Dwellers" is acclaimed as being the first Australian film featuring Indigenous actors in all the major roles.
"The Fringe Dwellers" received critical and international success when it was released in 1986, but gained
local politics in the City of Toronto and the Township of Georgian Bay.
He ran as a fringe candidate for Mayor of Toronto at the age of 68 in the 1997 municipal election.
For the last 20 years of his life he advocated for representation by population and electoral equality for urban voters in Canada concerned about city dwellers electoral under-representation at the provincial and federal levels of government and wrote extensively on the topic.
Heisey Islands, Georgian Bay.
As a result of Heisey's contributions as a writer