Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Northern rover	A. L. Karras	"From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan …	OL16975821W
Martha Black	Martha Louise Black	"Martha was an independent 32-year old when she headed for the Klondike in 1898. She endured the grueling Chilkoot Trail, traveled by boat down the Yukon River, and worked placer gold claims while li…	OL1876673W
Roughing It in the Bush	Susanna Moodie	<p><em>Roughing It in the Bush</em> (1852)—full title R<i>oughing It in The Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada—</i>is a novel by English-born writer Susanna Moodie who immigrated to Upper Canada, near m…	OL20214812W
Sisters in the wilderness	Charlotte Gray	Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill were writers and artists who left England for Canada during the great wave of emigration that saw over twelve million Britons abandon their homeland for the C…	OL2065350W
Strangers in blood	Brown,Jennifer S. H. Brown	Describes the social world of the traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. Examines differences between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and their effects on Indian-white relations.	OL2956120W
Hobnobbing with a countess and other Okanagan adventures	Alice Barrett Parke	"At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia's interior was still a relatively new destination for white settlers. The discovery of gold and the promise of a succes…	OL6003369W
The judge's wife	Eunice M. L. Harrison	295 p. : 23 cm	OL6009021W
When Montana and I were young	Margaret Bell	"Lost for half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is the rarest of finds, a remarkable primary account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. M…	OL6213121W