Download or read book The Tender Years written by Lillian Ross and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald and Sadie MacIntosh emigrated west from Prince Edward Island in Eastern Canada, spending nearly four years on the Alberta prairies, where they gambled everything on raising their wheat crop. Between dust storms, hail, prairie fires, blizzards, and a difficult landlady, Donald and Sadie were beaten into submission. Loading their few possessions, they moved north in a railroad boxcar to the bushland to face new challenges. Meanwhile their family is burgeoning. By the time they reach the northern bush country, they have eight children. This story comes from the memoirs of these children as they grew up. The people they met and the conditions they endured made living in the North memorable, heartbreaking, and sometimes frightening, but there are tender and even laughable moments. This is the second book in the trilogy following The Gentle Gamblers.
Download or read book A Full House A Canadian Historical Novel of Pioneer Adventure written by Lillian Ross and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Full House is a historical novel of farm life in Alberta, Canada, in the 1930’s, 1940’s and ’50’s. The book follows the historical novels: Book #1 The Gentle Gamblers, and book #2 The Tender Years. The MacIntosh Family moves into their homestead in the northern bushland after trials in a series of rented houses. Here, this pioneer family, along with friends and neighbours, rides out the Depression as one by one their children grow up, and we share their struggles, their joys and their triumphs. This story, the people, the incidents that happened, and the places are true and are taken from the memoirs of the people involved. That is why the author calls it ‘creative non-fiction’ even though it is written as fiction.
Download or read book A Canadian Historical Novel of Pioneer Adventure written by Lillian Ross and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gentle Gamblers written by Lillian Ross and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They braved the dark lean days of the Western Canadian Prairies to carve out a new life for themselves. The pot-o-gold for their labors was a stretch of black fertile soil alive with a sea of golden wheat. But would the tragedy of some unfulfilled dreams cause them to return to their Eastern roots?Brief Synopsis: This is a story about real people living through real events in Canadian history with often uncommon bravery.
Download or read book Cougar s Crossing written by Lillian Ross and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story of Frank (Cougar) Wright tells of a loud, brash, irreverent, pioneer to the Canadian Northwest from Wisconsin and the forests of Washington. Cougar swore like a trooper, and didn't believe in a higher power than his own strength, but he loved his family and wanted them to join him in his struggle to tame the wilderness in Canada. The book is filled with romance, adventure, even a ghost story, and there is a thread of mystery winding through its pages. Tempers run high in a drama of wounded love and jealousy in this rugged era. Cougar's family's dance with destiny would shake his world and theirs.
Download or read book The Gentle Gamblers written by Lillian Ross and published by Drayton Valley, Alta. : Grassroots Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Full House written by Lillian Ross and published by Drayton Valley, Alta. : Grassroots Pub.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cougar s Crossing A Canadian Historical Novel of Pioneer Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Kids written by Frieda Wishinsky and published by Maple Tree. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since discovering the Canadian Flyer, a magical time-traveling sled, in Emily's attic, Matt and Emily have outrun dinosaurs in the Alberta badlands, panned for gold in the Yukon, and seen the Silver Dart soar high in Nova Scotia's skies. In Pioneer Kids, Emily and Matt arrive on the Canadian Prairies in 1910. They visit a one-room schoolhouse where they try to help a new friend deal with a classroom bully. But when a raging fire erupts, it's Emily and Matt who need rescuing! In this, the sixth book in the popular Canadian Flyer Adventures series, author Frieda Wishinsky weaves well-researched and accurate historical facts into her compelling, kid-friendly storytelling, while Dean Griffith's action-packed illustrations situate readers in place and time perfectly. At the end of their adventure Emily and Matt share additional facts about pioneer days, country schools, and prairie fires, and Wishinsky gives additional facts here too, in an informative Q&A format.
Download or read book The Tender Years written by Lillian Ross and published by Drayton Valley, Alta. : Grassroots Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: Donald and Sadie MacIntosh who emigrated West from PEI in Eastern Canada, spent nearly four years on the Alberta prairies where they gambled everything they had investing in two quarters of land to raise their precious wheat crop. Between dust storms, hailstorms, prairie fires, Black Blizzards the dreadful May 19 blizzard, and a difficult landlady, Donald and Sadie were beaten into submission. Loading their few possessions they moved north in a railroad boxcar to the bushland to face new challenges. Meanwhile their family is burgeoning. By the time they reach the Northern bush country they have eight children. The story comes from the memoirs of these children as they grew. The people they met and the conditions they lived with made living in the North memorable, heartbreaking, and sometimes frightening but there are tender moments and sometimes laughable moments. This is the second book in the trilogy following "The Gentle Gamblers." About the Author: Lillian (MacIntosh) Ross was the fourteenth child of a family of fifteen born to Donald and Sadie MacIntosh. She graduated from Sangudo High School and went on to get her Bachelor of Education at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Literature courses taken there inspired her to become an author. However, it was not until she retired from teaching, married Reg Ross from the oilfields, and raised two sons, Lonnie and Erin, that she finally made her trilogy of historical novels of pioneer adventure a reality. As well as writing, she enjoyed playing the guitar and singing in a band with her husband who has since passed away.
Download or read book The Gentle Gamblers written by Lillian Ross and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneers in Canada Classic Reprint written by Harry Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pioneers in Canada The publishers of this book asked me to write a series of works for the reading of boys and girls which should deal with "real adventures," in parts of the world either wild and uncontrolled by any civilized government, or at any rate regions full of dangers, of wonderful discoveries; in which the daring and heroism of white men (and sometime of white women) stood out clearly against backgrounds of unfamiliar landscapes, peopled with strange nations, savage tribes, dangerous beasts, or wonderful birds. These books would again and again illustrate the first coming of the white race into regions inhabited by people of a different type, with brown, black, or yellow skins; how the European was received, and how he treated these races of the soil which gradually came under his rule owing to his superior knowledge, weapons, wealth, or powers of persuasion. The books were to tell the plain truth, even if here and there they showed the white man to have behaved badly, or if they revealed the fact that the American Indian, the Negro, the Malay, the black Australian was sometimes cruel and treacherous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reluctant Pioneer written by Thomas Osborne and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic." Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.
Download or read book Pioneers in Canada written by Harry Johnston and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Pioneers in Canada" by Harry Johnston. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book A Pioneer Thanksgiving written by Barbara Greenwood and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of harvest celebrations in 1841.
Download or read book Canadian Books in Print Author and Title Index written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cougar s Crossing written by Lillian Ross and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cougar’s Crossing “To read a book by Lillian Ross is to travel to another time and place with characters who quickly become family. Read this true-to-life novel to feel the essence of the rugged era on the Canadian prairies… raw, messy, inspired by hope and motivated by grit. Ross weaves a poignant drama of wounded love, jealousy and human emotion.” Corrine McConchie, Librarian Vancouver Excerpt from Iris Tuftin’s Editor’s Comment …Could this be ‘his’ remains, we wondered? The hated man who killed our Aunt Florence in 1921? …The facts were overwhelming – more fascinating than we ever imagined. Now the story of Cougar’s Crossing would have to be changed. We knew the truth – or most of it. A Historical Novel with a Mysterious Twist The loud, brash, irreverent Cougar Wright swore like a trooper and didn’t believe in a higher power than his own strength, but he loved his family and wanted them to join him in his struggle to tame the wilderness. His family’s dance with destiny in Alberta’s Northwest would shake his world and theirs.
