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Le grand feu
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Marie-Andrée Mativat |
Printemps 1870. Un orage s'abat sur la région du haut Saguenay et déclenche plusieurs foyers d'incendie sur la rive sud de la rivière et du lac Saint-Jean. Le brasier se répand à une vitesse folle. L… |
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Memoires of George and Phoebe Warnica
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Andrew F. Hunter |
Describes the settlement of George Frederick Warnica and his wife Phoebe Lyon in Innisfil Township, Simcoe County Ontario. Both born in New York State and their families moved to Ontario at different… |
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A brief memoir of the late George F. Warnica
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Andrew F. Hunter |
The life of George Frederick Hanning Warnica (Wernecke), a bachelor Dane who immigrated to New York State in 1804. He settled at Manlius New York and neighbour to the Helmer family. Here he meets Mrs… |
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Jean Talon, intendant en Nouvelle-France
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Josée Ouimet |
Cet opus donne à marcher dans les traces de Jean Talon, qui est nommé intendant de la nouvelle colonie française d'Amérique par le Roi Soeil. De 1665 à 1668, l'ambitieux jeune homme travaille d'arrac… |
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Des pas sur la neige
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Carol Matas |
In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family's experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert's Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cr… |
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The Donner Party
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Mark McLaughlin |
A unique look at the Donner Party's struggle for survival as powerful snow storms during the winter of 1847 trap 81 California-bound pioneers in the high Sierra. |
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Le mythe de l'Ouest
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Daniel Royot,Philippe Jacquin |
Les auteurs étudient sous divers angles l'histoire de la migration américaine vers l'Ouest jusqu'au Pacifique. |
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Desert gold
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Zane Grey |
A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corrupt… |
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Hobnobbing with a countess and other Okanagan adventures
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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… |
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Pioneer women
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Joanna L. Stratton |
These accounts of the daily lives of Kansas pioneer women are selected from 800 memoirs collected by the author's great-grandmother. |
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