Product Description: In August 2014 at the Congres Mondial Acadien, the Acadian communities in Canada and the United States commemorate the Grand Derangement (Expulsion) in 1755 when they were transported, under great duress, from their homes in Acadia to Louisiana...read more

Product Description: This selection of writings by 29 women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the 17th to the early 20th century, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North...read more

Product Description: Alison is held captive by the powers of a mysterious pipe bowl belonging to a Mi"kmaq shaman. The bowl takes her back in time where she forms friendships with troubled ghosts who need her help. She must uncover the history of the pipe, and she must do it quickly, before she too is consumed by the grim fate of the pipe's beholders...read more

A charming introduction to pioneer history romps through the seasons on a pioneer farm, and includes search-and-find lists for the many items detailed in the colorful borders of each page.

Product Description: Lorsque son père, veuf, tombe malade, l'on envoie le jeune bostonien Timothy vivre dans la famille de sa mère, en Acadie. Timothy finit par aimer les Acadiens, leurs habitudes et leur pays. Survient la Déportation de 1755 et Timothy doit choisir...read more

Product Description: Over 200 classic recipes, many honed over generations, are organized by the seasons of the garden and the farmer's market. Included are the best rhubarb custard pie and wild grape jelly you'll ever taste. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Sarah is frightened by everything about life as a pioneer in Upper Canada in 1836, until she meets Bright Fire, the son of an Ojibwa chief, who shows her his medicine bag, and she begins to wonder if it could protect her, too. (view table of contents)

From Ash to Wintergreen, Bittersweet to Wappatoo, the common Bedstraw and the uncommon Camas, the edible Fiddlehead Fern and the ubiquitous Dandelion, E. J. Revell has painted beautiful watercolors of these and 62 other plants found in North America. Plant illustrations and accompanying botanical descriptions and quotations are arranged alphabetically, in keeping with the old herbal tradition of plant identification. Plants were chosen for their pictorial value, with the intention that each watercolor should evoke a habitat and associations which match those of the quotations accompanying it. The quotations that are included are from a variety of explorers and settlers, describing the plants and reflecting the practical, aesthetic, and botanic interests of the newcomers in different parts of the country.

Set in 1759 where Jamie, a young Scot, who has been living with his father in Normandy and on the run most most of his life, learns the story behind his father's life of secrecy. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Ann and Meg embark on a search for their fur-trader father with a group of voyageurs bound for Grand Portage.They brave harsh weather, food shortages, stray bears, and more in their triumphant odyssey across the wilderness of 18th-century Canada.

Product Description: Ann and Meg embark on a search for their fur-trader father with a group of voyageurs bound for Grand Portage.They brave harsh weather, food shortages, stray bears, and more in their triumphant odyssey across the wilderness of 18th-century Canada.

Product Description: Marc, Sam, and Nicole built a mighty cat of snow with two golden marbles for eyes and an old fox stole for a tail. For ears they used red earmuffs.That night, just before Sam fell asleep - or was it after? - he heard a sound outside...read more

Book by Downie, Mary Alice

Product Description: Writing about Kingston

When his wife is kidnapped by the Giant of Hunting-Hill, Cathal receives help from a magic dog, falcon, and wren in rescuing her

A talking buffalo helps a young peasant find a home and then a bride, in the form of fairy girl, but when she tries to return to heaven, her father turns them both into stars

A stranger, the Devil in disguise, offers to build a new bridge in return for possession of the first thing that crosses it

The discovery of an oddly carved pipe fills eleven-year-old Alison's summer with mystery and adventure.

Poems deal with kings, laughter, travel, sailors, forests, outlaws, magic, flying, the seasons, clouds, cats, bears, and elephants

Product Description: Book by Downie, Mary Alice

Product Description: Book by Downie, Mary Alice