This out-of-print book includes beautiful illustrations, with brief biographies of men and women prominent in Canadian history from 458-1867. Sections of history are interspersed. This has been one of my favourite Canadian history books for children.
Look for it at the library, used, or it can be borrowed from the Internet Archive library.
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Air flight was a new development in intelligence and combat in the First World War. Pilots were daring. Many died in training and the lifespan on the front was short. These young men faced great ranges of emotion from excitement and thrill to trauma and grief. Arthur Roy Brown (1893-1944), the Canadian flying ace officially credited…
Maud Lewis overcame great difficulties to become one of Canada’s foremost primitive painters. Her simple scenes of life around Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, invoke the beauty and joy with which she viewed the world. Emerging from her youth crippled with arthritis, Lewis escaped into her painting at the age of 30. She had never seen a…
Joseph-Armand Bombardier was the inventor of the snowmobile and Ski-Doo. While Bombardier’s many inventions demonstrate his mechanical skills, his ability not only to respond to transportation needs but to create them gave rise to his namesake corporation’s record of shrewd business and innovation.
Viking sagas (stories) tell of the discovery of a place called Vinland and the settlement there. In 1960, a Viking settlement was discovered on the northeast tip of Newfoundland. Archaeologists are certain they have found the remains of the first Norse (Viking) settlement in North America, at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Today it is a…
The great Cree Chief, Mistahimaskwa, was the last Chief to reluctantly sign the infamous numbered treaties that confined aboriginals to reservations. He held out because he accurately foresaw the consequences of that policy. Changes brought by the railway and settlement in the west tragically destroyed the way of life of the First Peoples. Mistahimaskwa, known…
The Matthew, piloted by John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto), sailed either to Cape Bonavista, or St. John’s, NL around 1497. Two full-sized replicas, one in Bristol, England, and the other in Bonavista, were built for the 500th anniversary of the landing.
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