Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Philip Hayes - Wednesday Jan 23 2008 9:20 am
Ruth Asks:
"I enjoy books about pioneers. I also like stories of people settling here from other countries and their tales of tribulations and success. What can you recommend?"
We have a number of great titles dealing with pioneers and settlement.
One great recent book is Sisters in Two Worlds which deals with the experiences of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill.This book paints a vivid picture of life in the backwoods of Upper Canada in the 1830's. The double shock of pioneer life and adjusting to it as a new immigrant makes this a fascinating read. It's also a great introduction to the books they wrote about their new life in Canada. Roughing It in the Bush and The Backwoods of Canada. Both are Canadian history classics.
You might also want to check out The Silver Chief, The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada 1784-1855 by , Icelanders in North America by and Frontier Farewell by .
| By Michael Peterman - $45.00 - add to cart | |
Containing two hundred colour and black-and-white images, many of them never-before published, this extraordinary book chronicles the lives of two exceptional and inspirational women: sisters, writ...
| By Lucille H. Campey - $28.95 - add to cart | |
Established in 1784 by Highlanders, Glengarry was Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement. As economic conditions in Scotland worsened during the late eighteenth century and early nineteen...
| By Jonas Thor - $24.95 - add to cart | |
Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports and archives, Jonas Thor looks at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and...
| By Garrett Wilson - $29.95 - add to cart | |
This book tells the story of the Canadian West from the first explorers in the eighteenth century to the year the Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, surrendered to the Americans and the Blackfoot chief, Cr...
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