Brothers write of Canadian polygamy with deep Utah roots [Video]

SALT LAKE CITY — Look at Bountiful, British Columbia, on a map, and you’ll see it’s barely in Canada at all. It’s just a few miles north of the Idaho Panhandle.

Utah, it seems, is even closer than that.

“My dad had five wives,” said Brandon Blackmore in an interview with FOX 13 News. “So, it was a polygamous situation.”

He and his half-brother Jon – the pair have the same father – have each written new books about growing up in Bountiful in the 1980s and 1990s. The community was founded decades earlier by families who would join what became the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“The people in Bountiful pretty much lived in poverty,” Jon Blackmore told FOX 13, hitting on a theme of each brother’s book.

Brandon’s “Son of Perdition” and Jon’s “Broken Promise” are both out now. Brandon, 42, and Jon, 50, today call each other best friends. But when you …