New notes explain the historical context behind this collection of highly readable stories about Quebec during the years following 1763, when Britain took possession of French Canada after defeating France in the Seven Years War ... An introduction and notes by Jen Rubio provide key historical context to this collection of short stories exploring Quebec's political, military, and social past, as well as its troubled relationship with English-speaking Canada (then Upper Canada) in the years following the British defeat of France in 1763. While Parker's depiction of French-Canadian social...
New notes explain the historical context behind this collection of highly readable stories about Quebec during the years following 1763, when Brita...
An exciting new annotated edition of the only novel ever published that depicts the 1866 invasion of British-ruled Canada by Irish republicans, an event that would help set the stage for Confederation ...
New notes provide fascinating insight into this intriguing narrative of Canadian-American relations. The two countries clash in this fast-paced comedy of manners by Scottish-Canadian-American writer Robert Barr (1849-1912). In 1866, a group of Irish-Americans known as the Fenian Brotherhood carried out cross-border raids into British-ruled Canada. The main reason was to take over...
An exciting new annotated edition of the only novel ever published that depicts the 1866 invasion of British-ruled Canada by Irish republicans, an ...
"In publishing Frederick Philip Grove's The Adventure of Leonard Broadus, Rock's Mills Press has brought to light a boys' adventure novel that some will regard as a Canadian classic. Recommended." -- Ruth Latta, CM Magazine.
"This novel is a fast-paced action adventure in which a thirteen-year-old boy, Leonard Broadus, works with the police to detect and capture a gang of thieves who are operating near the Lake Erie shoreline of Ontario in the 1930s. Leonard uses the skills of a farmboy in attempting to avoid capture by an unknown enemy and the intuition of a detective...
"In publishing Frederick Philip Grove's The Adventure of Leonard Broadus, Rock's Mills Press has brought to light a boys' adventure novel th...
A new annotated edition recounting the experiences of Anne's daughter Rilla Blythe during the First World War ...
"There is absolutely no one around here who seems to realize the war. I believe it is well they do not. If all felt as I do over it the work of the country would certainly suffer." In her journal entry for January 1, 1915, L.M. Montgomery lamented the absence of close companions with whom to discuss the war in her new life as a minister's wife in the rural community of Leaskdale, Ontario. Montgomery would work hard throughout the war years, contributing to the war effort as...
A new annotated edition recounting the experiences of Anne's daughter Rilla Blythe during the First World War ...
A moving novel of love, loss, and coming of age set in First World War Canada . . .
The "war to end all wars" took a terrible toll at home as well as in the trenches of the Western front. In Rilla of Ingleside, famed Canadian novelist Lucy Maud Montgomery has crafted a moving account of one girl's coming of age in wartime. In this novel of endurance and sacrifice on the Canadian home front, young and old alike share the experience of fear, dread, love and loss, in the end emerging into a new post-war world forged in fire yet imbued with hope.
Extensive notes not only relate the...
A moving novel of love, loss, and coming of age set in First World War Canada . . .
The "war to end all wars" took a terrible toll at home as we...
