It also gave her an insider’s view into a place and piece of Canadian history few outsiders ever see. 13 from the Montreal-based publisher Drawn & Quarterly, was one of isolation and sexual harassment. Her experience there, detailed in the graphic memoir “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands,” out on Sept. So she headed west, to the tar sand fields of northern Alberta, one of the world’s most environmentally destructive oil operations, where workers lived in barracks-like camps and men vastly outnumbered women. Around her home in Cape Breton, a picturesque, wooded island in Nova Scotia, the joke was that everyone was “on pogie,” she said - on unemployment. In 2005, Kate Beaton was 21, with a brand-new degree in history and anthropology, student loans she said felt like a foot on her neck, and few job prospects.
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