Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People It is 1915, and Sam Ferrier and his father arrive by train in Curlew, Alberta, to build a new home...
Prairie Provinces
- Author:Lottridge, CeliaSummary:
- Author:McKervill, Hugh W.Summary:
The author first set foot in sparsely populated northern Saskatchewan in 1955, having little idea of the adventures ahead and the bonds he would forge in this land of mud, mosquitoes and pioneers. McKervill offers a vivid and...
- Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:
Visiting her grandmother's farm, Emily encounters a strangely-dressed girl her age, and discovers that she's a relative -- from another time!
Who is this oddly dressed girl? Where did she come from? What is she doing on the rock...
- Author:Downs, ArtSummary:
At the end of the nineteenth century, Canada’s prairies were still sparsely populated. Crimes such as horse theft, random murders, and prison escapes were the order of the day, and the North West Mounted Police continued to rely on...
- Author:Downs, ArtSummary:
They looked impressive in their red tunics, but the members of the fledgling North West Mounted Police had little experience as they departed from Fort Garry in 1874 on a mission to bring order to the lawless territories west of the Red...
- Author:Belyk, Robert C.Summary:
The ghost of a scuba diver who still haunts the former British Columbia powerhouse where he met his death. An Alberta theatre where entities have been seen, heard, and even felt so often that it deserves to be called one of the most...
- Author:Tracie, Carl J.Summary:
How does reading poetry influence the way we see the Prairies? Cultural geographer Carl J. Tracie explores this question in Shaping a World Already Made, his labour of love to Canadian poetry and to his home.
- Author:Pettipas, KatherineSummary:
Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Danny wants to be a farmer. He only wishes that the town bully, Zach, would leave him alone. Is there any way Danny can protect himself?
- Author:Freynet, RobertSummary:
Dans Riel, patriote, Robert Freynet nous transporte par le neuvième art au Canada de la Confédération. L’auteur met en scène le drame tragique de la vie du controversé chef métis Louis Riel, fondateur de la province du Manitoba et l’un...
- Author:Smith, Peter B.Summary:
These eight true tales explore the dark side of 20th-century prairie history. A Saskatchewan farmhouse is burned to the ground to conceal the brutal murders of a family of seven. A German prisoner-of-war camp in Medicine Hat is the...
- Author:Ehman, Amy JoSummary:
- Author:Korinek, Valerie JoyceSummary:
"Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on the five major urban centres: Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton,...
- Author:Kimmel, Fran, Hoyt, Tracey, Watton, JonathanSummary:
A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another. Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric's childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there's no denying it, their family is...
- Author:Quan, HollySummary:
These inspiring true stories illuminate the courage and wisdom of five 19th-century Native leaders and famous Métis who fought against impossible odds to preserve the culture and rights of their people. The visionary Cree leader Big...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
In 1807 Marie-Anne Lagomodière became the first white woman to make the canoe voyage from Quebec to the Red River Valley in western Canada as she accompanied her coureur du bois husband. She settled into the life and learned Cree and...
- Author:Boyden, JosephSummary:
Louis Riel, a controversial Métis mystic and visionary, fought for his people’s rights against an encroaching tide of white settlers. Hunter and Métis leader Gabriel Dumont, a man tested by warfare, was, in contrast, a pragmatic realist...
- Author:MITCHELL, William O.Summary:
In 1924, twelve-year-old Saskatchewanian Hugh is stuck in the middle of a heat wave. To escape the sun, Hugh and his friends seek refuge in a cave and discover it is inhabited by an escapee from a nearby mental hospital. Meanwhile, they...
- Author:Cooper, KellySummary:
A remarkable debut collection, Kelly Cooper's Eyehill provides a multi-hued portrait of a small prairie town. Too small to support a high school or a drugstore, Eyehill is populated by men and women, who have worked for generations to...
- Author:Elofson, W. M.Summary: