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An Ocean Apart

Gillian Chan
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Author : Gillian Chan
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century Juvenile fiction
ISBN : 0779113535

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With over 400,000 books already in print, the Dear Canada series has fast become the book series for children. Each fictional diary invites readers into the world of a girl living through a particular period in Canada's past. Gillian Chan's latest addition illustrates the effect the Chinese Head Tax has on one young girl and her family. Mei-ling and her father are struggling to pay the head tax that will allow her mother and brother, who are still living in China, to come to Canada. They must have that money before the impending Exclusion Act bars any more Chinese from immigrating. What will happen if they can't come up with enough in time to reunite their family?

Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles

Gillian Chan,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Sharon Stewart,Jean Little,Kit Pearson,Janet Lunn
Dear Canada A Season for Miracles Book PDF

Author : Gillian Chan,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Sharon Stewart,Jean Little,Kit Pearson,Janet Lunn
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443119962

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Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles by Gillian Chan,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Sharon Stewart,Jean Little,Kit Pearson,Janet Lunn Pdf

Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country! What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear Canada books. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with their favourites and get a glimpse of each character's life a year or so after the events in the actual diary are over. Anyone new to the Dear Canada series will be introduced to characters so compelling, they'll want to read more.

Dear Canada: An Ocean Apart

Gillian Chan
Dear Canada An Ocean Apart Book PDF

Author : Gillian Chan
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443119849

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Dear Canada: An Ocean Apart by Gillian Chan Pdf

With over 400,000 books already in print, the Dear Canada series has fast become the book series for children. Each fictional diary invites readers into the world of a girl living through a particular period in Canada's past. Gillian Chan's latest addition illustrates the effect the Chinese Head Tax has on one young girl and her family. Mei-ling and her father are struggling to pay the head tax that will allow her mother and brother, who are still living in China, to come to Canada. They must have that money before the impending Exclusion Act bars any more Chinese from immigrating. What will happen if they can't come up with enough in time to reunite their family?

An Ocean Apart

Gillian Chan
An Ocean Apart Book PDF

Author : Gillian Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:679666362

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The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-ling. Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922.

Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea

Sarah Ellis
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Author : Sarah Ellis
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443113342

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Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea by Sarah Ellis Pdf

Ivy Weatherall is just 11 years old when her family leaves England for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. They've come to join her uncle for the available land, the lush harvests, and the opportunity for success. But in Milorie, Saskatchewan, their dreams crumble into dust when they reach Uncle Alf's small sod hut and discover that jobs are scarce, and that they can barely make ends meet. Ivy's relatives pack up and head back to England, but to Ivy, Canada is full of wonder and beginning to feel like home. There are challenges in her new life, but Ivy's feisty character and her sense of wonder for a prairie as wide as the sea make her adventure one that readers won't easily forget. Vetted by a historical expert, this book contains maps, period illustrations/documents, and an extensive historical note.

Dear Canada: A Sea of Sorrows

Norah McClintock
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Author : Norah McClintock
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443119733

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Dear Canada: A Sea of Sorrows by Norah McClintock Pdf

In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster — only to land in another. After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family. But typhus and other illnesses plague the "coffin ships," so named for the staggering number of immigrants who died enroute. One by one Johanna loses the members of her family — first her baby brother on the journey over, then her mother in the Grosse Isle fever sheds where sick passengers are quarantined when they reach the port of Québec, and her father soon after. Johanna has only her brother Michael left when she sets foot on Canadian soil. When her brother is mistakenly told that she too has died, he sets off to find their uncle "somewhere in Canada," leaving Johanna to face a new life in a strange land... totally alone. A Sea of Sorrows captures a dreadful time in history for those desperate, impoverished Irish families who hoped to make Canada their home. Johanna's incredible journey of survival is told with insight and sensitivity by master storyteller Norah McClintock.

Dear Canada: Torn Apart

Susan M. Aihoshi
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Author : Susan M. Aihoshi
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443119221

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Dear Canada: Torn Apart by Susan M. Aihoshi Pdf

The harsh conditions of an internment camp become a reality for a young Japanese-Canadian girl. It is 1941 and Mary Kobayashi, a Canadian-born Japanese girl enjoys her life in Vancouver. She likes school, she likes her friends, and she yearns above all else to own a bicycle. Although WWII is raging elsewhere in the world, it hasn't really impacted her life in B.C. Then on December 7, 1941, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. . . and everything changes. Suddenly a war of suspicion and prejudice is waged on the home front and Japanese-Canadians are completely stripped of their rights, their jobs and their homes. Mary is terrified when her family is torn apart and sent to various work camps, while she and her two sisters are sent, alone, to a primitive camp in B.C.'s interior. Here Mary spends the duration of the war, scared and uncertain of how it will all end. In Torn Apart, author Susan Aihoshi draws from the experiences of her own family during "The Uprooting" of the Japanese in B.C. during WWII. Through young Mary's eyes, readers experience this regrettable time in Canadian history firsthand.

Dear Canada: All Fall Down

Jean Little
Dear Canada All Fall Down Book PDF

Author : Jean Little
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443128971

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Dear Canada: All Fall Down by Jean Little Pdf

A young girl survives the deadliest landslide in Canadian history — but a family secret could call into question everything she thought she knew about her life before the disaster. After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with relatives who run a hotel in the mining town of Frank, Alberta. Abby keeps busy helping out at the hotel, being chief caregiver to her little brother with Down Syndrome, and learning Morse Code at the telegraph office. When the devastating Frank Slide buries much of the town, Abby must do all she can to help. But a long-buried family secret emerged just before the disaster — and she must wait for the dust to settle before getting the answers she so desperately wants. Inspired by two of her own relatives, one who helped run a telegraph office in the late 1800s and another who shares Abby's story (and her family secret), Jean Little crafts a compelling story rich with emotion and historical detail.

Dear Canada: a Country of Our Own

Karleen Bradford
Dear Canada a Country of Our Own Book PDF

Author : Karleen Bradford
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443113243

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Dear Canada: a Country of Our Own by Karleen Bradford Pdf

As the rest of the country gears up for Confederation, Rosie's life is about to be pulled apart. It's 1866. The year before Confederation. And the year Rosie's life turns upside-down. She has just gone into service with Mr. Bradley, a civil servant working in Quebec City, the bustling capital of the Province of Canada. When the capital is moved to the rough sawmill town of Ottawa, the Bradleys have to move there too. Rosie will desperately miss her own parents and siblings, and wonders if she will ever have a place in her own family again. Karleen Bradford draws on her own experience as the wife of a diplomat in Ottawa and embassies around the world to craft this authentic portrait of a young girl displaced in the whirlwind of government.

Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Dear Canada Prisoners in the Promised Land Book PDF

Author : Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443124041

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Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Pdf

The heart-wrenching story of one girl's experience at a Ukrainian internment camp in Quebec during World War I Anya's family emigrates from the Ukraine hoping for a fresh start and a new life in Canada. Soon after they cram into a tiny apartment in Montreal, WWI is declared. Because their district was annexed by Austria — now at war with the Commonwealth — many Ukrainians in Canada are declared "enemy aliens" and sent to internment camps. Anya and her family are shipped off to the Spirit Lake Camp, in the remote wilderness of Quebec. Though conditions are brutal, at least Anya is at a camp that houses entire families together, and even in this barbed-wire world, she is able to make new friends and bring some happiness to the people around her. Author Marsha Skrypuch, whose own grandfather was interned during WWI at a camp in Alberta, travelled to Spirit Lake during her research for the book. "When we got to the cemetery, I was overwhelmed with emotion. Imagine seeing a series of crosses, all grown over with brush and abandoned, and knowing that the real person you based a character on had a little sister buried there? That real little girl was Mary Manko. She was only six years old when she and her family were taken from their Montreal home and sent to Spirit Lake Internment Camp. Her two-year-old sister Carolka died at the camp. Mary Manko is in her nineties now and is the last known survivor of the Ukrainian internment operations." explains Skrypuch.

Dear Canada: Turned Away

Carol Matas
Dear Canada Turned Away Book PDF

Author : Carol Matas
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443124003

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This dramatic story tells of 11-year-old Devorah's efforts to help her cousin and pen pal Sarah emigrate from Paris before the Nazis deport the Jews to internment camps. Devorah learns that 5,000 Jewish children in France have visas to leave the country, but the Canadian government will not let them in, leading Devorah to desperately lobby the government to change its policies. Turned Away illustrates the restrictions on the life of Jews in Paris via letters from Sarah who is living in German-occupied France. It also reveals Canada's dismal record on Jewish immigration during World War II and depicts the impact of the war in Canada. In Winnipeg, one intriguing response to the war was "If Day," when local people posed as Nazis and staged a mock invasion to illustrate what it would be like if the city was occupied. Also included are fascinating period documents and photographs, many from the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The historical consultants for Turned Away were Dr. Irving Abella, co-author of the ground-breaking book None is Too Many, and Terry Copp, author of the remarkable book No Price Too High.

Dear Canada: Whispers of War

Kit Pearson
Dear Canada Whispers of War Book PDF

Author : Kit Pearson
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443119924

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Dear Canada: Whispers of War by Kit Pearson Pdf

In the summer of 1812, as rumours of a looming war become a reality, Susanna, her mother and sister are surviving as best they can while the men are fighting. As news of various battles reaches them, Susanna becomes even more concerned for the safety and well-being of her beloved brother and father. She is also torn between the loyalties of her best friend and her mother — both Americans living in Upper Canada — and her father's and brother's allegiance to General Brock and the King. But the night of the Battle of Queenston Heights, Susanna's main concern is for survival.

Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

Brian Doyle,Rukhsana Khan,Paul Yee,Afua Cooper,Ruby Slipperjack,Irene N. Watts,Kit Pearson,Jean Little,Shelley Tanaka
Dear Canada Hoping for Home Book PDF

Author : Brian Doyle,Rukhsana Khan,Paul Yee,Afua Cooper,Ruby Slipperjack,Irene N. Watts,Kit Pearson,Jean Little,Shelley Tanaka
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443128124

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Dear Canada: Hoping for Home by Brian Doyle,Rukhsana Khan,Paul Yee,Afua Cooper,Ruby Slipperjack,Irene N. Watts,Kit Pearson,Jean Little,Shelley Tanaka Pdf

In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life. In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring. Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and girls, each one living at a different point in Canada's vast landscape and history. With unforgettable protagonists — such as Miriam, a Warsaw-ghetto survivor, now reunited with her family in Montreal; Wong Joe-on, a young Chinese immigrant who faces racism in a small Saskatchewan town; and Insy, an Ojibwe girl who makes her first trip to a "white" town in Northern Ontario — young readers will be moved by the opportunities and difficulties that these characters face, as each one ponders what it means to be Canadian, and struggles to fit in. Hoping for Home includes stories by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Brian Dowle, Paul Yee, Irene N. Watts, Ruby Slipperjack, Afua Cooper, Rukhsana Khan, Marie—Andrée Clermont, Lillian Boraks—Nemetz and Shelley Tanaka.

Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes

Janet McNaughton
Dear Canada Flame and Ashes Book PDF

Author : Janet McNaughton
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443124430

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Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes by Janet McNaughton Pdf

A touching "riches to rags" story set during the second-worst disaster in the history of Atlantic Canada. Eleven-year-old Triffie is the middle daughter of a well-to-do merchant. Triffie knows nothing about what it means to be poor -- until the disastrous fire of 1892 burns down most of St. John's, Newfoundland, leaving Triffie's family and 15,000 others homeless. The fire claimed everything but their underwear, Mother's best china . . . and Triffie's journal. With no other options, Triffie's family moves into a filthy warehouse while they attempt to rebuild their lives from the ground up. The aftermath of the fire teaches Triffie a lot about what it means to survive. More importantly, she comes face to face with her own prejudices, and begins to develop a much greater appreciation for how the less fortunate live.

Dear Canada: These Are My Words

Ruby Slipperjack
Dear Canada These Are My Words Book PDF

Author : Ruby Slipperjack
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443133197

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Dear Canada: These Are My Words by Ruby Slipperjack Pdf

Acclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl’s experience at a residential school in 1966. Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. She misses her Grandma; she has run-ins with Cree girls; at her “white” school, everyone just stares; and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name—she is now just a number. But worst of all, she has a fear. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language; the names of those she knew before; and her traditional customs. A fear of forgetting who she was. Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel. Drawing from her own experiences at residential school, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking heroine in Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation’s history.