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North West Mounted Police constable Patrick McNeil is buying a herd of Montana cattle to begin a ranch in the Canadian foothills. Jamie and Kate Bains join him on the dangerous adventure of a northbound cattle drive. It is a wild and dangerous frontier.
Meg and John Bains are stunned when they find themselves signed on as crew aboard an old, leaky, under-manned sailing ship bound from Quebec to Jamaica with a load of timber. On the return trip to Halifax, the leaking derelict is outfitted to carry 350 poor migrants to the New World. It uncertain whether any of them–the Bains included–will complete the horrific passage alive.
Set against the harsh landscape of the Canadian and U.S. West, Sioux Winter is the story of three friends who fight to overcome great odds and keep a family together. The book is illustrated with photos chronicling this exciting period in Canadian history.
This is the eighth book in the Bains series of historical novels, well-researched, action-filled narratives following the travels of one family across Canada–from Newfoundland to Alberta– in search of a better life during the hard times of the 1870s.
Books do not need to be read sequentially.
“Gold!” Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. “Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!”
Its 1896, and within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stows away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and joins thousands of fellow prospectors attempting the difficult journey to the Klondike.
Thomas discovers the intrepid James FitzGibbon who saved Upper Canada in 1812. Based on the true events surrounding the legendary James FitzGibbon and The Battle of Beaver Dam, The Bully Boys is a moving account of a young man’s experience of war.
With courage and conviction, Ted stands up for what he believes during the Cariboo gold rush and defends his Chinese friend.
When Mack and Jamie MacNeil are kidnapped by the sinister Ben Sparks, a dangerous adventure is set in motion. Forced to travel through the North American wilderness on the eve of the American Revolution, Mack and Jamie’s very lives are on the line.
As they try to thwart the evil that stalks them, they meet many brave allies, participate in thrilling political intrigue, and even find love. It is a journey that neither Mack nor Jamie would have chosen, but once set upon its path, their lives will be changed forever.
It is 1760, and Lord MacNeil decides that the way to make a man of his 13-year-old son, John, is to bring him along from England to Canada.
He knows that John, with his expert drawing skills, will make an excellent cartographer of Canada’s wilderness; an activity that will keep him away from the dangers of war. On the eve of John’s departure, his beloved twin sister, Jane, gives him her treasured silver ring.
As John wears this circle of silver, it becomes the link to everything he loves: his homeland, the frontier, and his newly-made friends – especially the intriguing Marie Roy.
Pages: 216
Ages: 8-12
Acclaimed author, Maxine Trottier, draws from her own family history as she chronicles the MacNeil family and their adventures on the frontier of Canada in early days, from Pontiac’s Rebellion, the Boston Tea Party (from a British perspective), and the War of 1812. These exciting tales can’t be put down. Your children will love them.
Plots, shots, flight, pursuit — all are part of this story from the exciting chapter in Canadian/American history when thousands of Loyalists fled to Canada to evade the vengeance of the American Revolutionaries. Twelve-year-old Ned Seaman tells this lively tale of his family”s perilous journey.
Escape may be fiction, but Martha and Caleb Seaman and their children actually existed.
A true story of a Loyalist family’s harrowing escape from enemy forces to a new life in Canada.
Rose draws on heroic stories of the past to find her own courage and inner strength after the Halifax Explosion, 1917.
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