“One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure. ” So begins Christopher Moore’s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, ...
Lester Pearson was born in 1897 and grew up during a time when the British empire covered a quarter of the earth’s land surface and Britain remained firmly in control of Canada’s affairs.
He joined ...
Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12
Winner of 2005 Children’s Nautilus Book Awards (Non-fiction)
Prior to abolition in 1865, ...
Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Nonfiction
Selected as Honour Book by the Children’s Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year
The brilliant artist Emily Carr lived at the ...