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Père Marquette: Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer

AWiebe — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:26:37 +0000

Born in France in 1637, Marquette became a Jesuit at the age of 17. Possessing a keen desire for adventure, coupled with a true missionary's compassion and a gift for linguistics, it was not long before Marquette was assigned as a missionary to New France. Once there, his daring nature drove him into the wilderness [...]

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Mère Marie of the Ursulines: A Study in Adventure

AWiebe — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:20:20 +0000

The early history of Quebec, "the rocky perch of France and of the Faith" in the New World, is incomplete without the story of Mère Marie. She received permission to join the Jesuit mission in Quebec. There she founded, in 1639, the first convent school in North America, where she lived for thirty-three years, moving [...]

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Dear Canada Set

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:06:17 +0000

All the Dear Canada books, all in one convenient place!

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Dear Canada: Turned Away

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:54:08 +0000

Devorah fights to help her cousin Sarah emigrate from Paris before the Nazis round up the Jews and deport them to internment camps, or worse. She also fears for her two brothers who are fighting in the war overseas. Will she lose everything?

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Dear Canada: Torn Apart

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:50:54 +0000

When Japan attacks Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, everything changes for Mary, who had a happy life with her family in Vancouver. A war of suspicion and prejudice is suddenly waged against Japanese Canadians and they are stripped of their rights, their jobs and their homes. Mary and her sisters are sent to an [...]

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Dear Canada: These are My Words

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:42:26 +0000

Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at Residential School. She has run-ins with the other girls, she misses her Grandma, and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name — she is now just a number. But worst of all, she has a fear. A fear of forgetting [...]

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Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:36:43 +0000

As Rose begins her diary, she is in her third home since coming to Winnipeg. Traumatized by her experiences in the Holocaust, she struggles to connect with others, and above all, to trust again. When her new guardian, Saul, tries to get Rose to deal with what happened to her during the war, she begins [...]

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Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:27:07 +0000

At the turn of the century, Dr. Thomas Barnardo, an English philanthropist, sought to give orphaned and abandoned children a second chance in the New World. These children — "Home Children" as they were called — came to work in Canada as farm labourers and domestic servants. Victoria Cope's family takes in a Home Child, [...]

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Dear Canada: Not a Nickel to Spare

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:09:01 +0000

Coping with being poor during the Depression is hard enough, but Sally also has to deal with the anti-Jewish feelings in her community when she ventures outside her familiar Jewish neighbourhood. And her cousin Benny is always getting into scrapes Sally has to try to get him out of. Sally must find the strength and [...]

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Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:03:46 +0000

These eleven wonderful original stories of arrival introduce readers to young boys and girls who bravely face the challenges of setting into a new life in a new land.

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Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:58:07 +0000

A touching "riches to rags" story set during the second-worst disaster in the history of Atlantic Canada. Eleven-year-old Triffie is the middle daughter of a well-to-do merchant. Triffie knows nothing about what it means to be poor — until the disastrous fire of 1892 burns down most of St. John’s, Newfoundland, leaving Triffie’s family and [...]

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Dear Canada: Exiles from the War

AWiebe — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:13:21 +0000

When a frightened boy and girl arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the war in England, Charlotte wonders how she can help her war guests feel safe, even as she starts to feel concerned.

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