Product Description: Every spring, Canada's capital city, Ottawa, bursts into colour with hundreds of thousands of tulip blooms. The Canadian Tulip Festival is an annual celebration born of courage, sacrifice and loss, and of a friendship that blossomed between two countries more than half a century ago, The festive floral display symbolizes the special bond between Canada and the Netherlands...read more

Presents a history of Grosse ãIle, Quâebec, which was a quarantine station for newly arrived immigrants from 1832 to 1937, discussing inspection procedure, cholera and typhus epidemics, and waves of immigrants.

Marissa is sad when her visit to Grandma Flora's seaside cottage comes to an end until she finds a way of bringing the sea back with her. Includes instructions for making a sea globe.