Winnie

By Winifred E. Bland

Subjects: emigration, canadian history, autobiography, canada, history, settlers

Description: In 1908, the Seddon family left their home in England in search of a better life in Canada. Arriving on the Prairies with the clothes they wore and little else, they turned their hands to whatever work they could find. For fourteen-year-old Winnie, pioneering was exciting and scary at the same time, hard work punctuated by tears, song and laughter. This memoir, written seventy years later, evokes the flavour of that long-gone era and captures the strength and resilience of the human spirit. (With an introduction and epilogue by her grandson.)