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My Community Long Ago
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Bobbie Kalman |
This book shows children how past communities were different from those of today by pairing modern photographs with illustrations of life in pioneer times. Topics include malls and general stores, fa… |
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Dear Canada
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Carol Matas |
Isobel thinks that she and her family will find their fortune in Canada. But Isobel's mother dies before they even cross the ocean, and other misfortunes follow their every step. Isobel's family and … |
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West-fever
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Brian W. Dippie |
Published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary year of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California, this book explores the mythical and factual West through the art, artifacts … |
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Family life
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Jill Foran |
Describes family life and their work during Canada's pioneer days. |
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The post office
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Christine Webster |
Describes the importance of the post office and the handling of mail during Canada's pioneer days. |
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Les frères Sisters
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Patrick DeWitt |
"Hermann Kermit Warm doit mourir. Le Commodore qui en a décidé ainsi a envoyé aux trousses du chercheur d'or les frères Eli et Charlie Sisters, tueurs à gages aux tempéraments radicalement opposés ma… |
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Angel in the snow
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Cora Taylor |
In 1870 in the Métis settlement of Batoche, Angelique must take on more responsibilities at home after a snow storm strands her mother and new baby sister at the midwife's house. |
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The blacksmith
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Rennay Craats |
Describes the importance of the blacksmith and their work during Canada's pioneer days. |
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The RCMP
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Erinn Banting |
Describes the importance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during Canada's pioneer days. |
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Mason & Dixon
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Thomas Pynchon |
Told from the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke – a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy – who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening (partly for amusement, … |
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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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La vie de la ferme
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Megan Kopp |
Learn about the lives of the hard working people who first settled Canada. |
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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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The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860
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Ray Allen Billington |
This history presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, mis… |
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Forth to the wilderness
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Dale Van Every |
The first American frontier along the Appalachian barrier was a drama terrible to be part of, magnificent to look back on. Its components were full measures of horror, war, confusion, and supercharge… |
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Wilderness and the American mind
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Roderick Nash |
"Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967.
The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hu… |
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Drawing the Line
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Edwin Danson |
THE FIRST POPULAR HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE The Mason-Dixon line-surely the most famous surveyors' line ever drawn-represents one of the greatest and most difficult scientific … |
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Writing the pioneer woman
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Janet Floyd |
"Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American… |
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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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Dear Canada
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Julie Lawson |
Kate's father is a builder for the Canadian Pacific Railway as it snakes across the mountains and through the Fraser Canyon. Everyone is excited about the "Iron Horse", but building the railroad is a… |
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