This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of...
Lob Lie-by-the-Fire, The Brownies and Other Talesis a collection of a dozen children's holiday stories. Contents: Lob Lie-by-the-fire, or, The luck of Lingborough (4064066386740) Timothy's Shoes Old Father Christmas Benjy in Beastland The Peace-Egg The Brownies The Land of Lost Toys Three Christmas-Trees An Idyl ofthe Wood Christmas Crackers Amelia and the Dwarfs Spoons