The campfire for ages has been the place of council and friendship and story-telling. The mystic glow of the fire quickens the mind, warms the heart, awakens memories of happy, glowing tales that fairly leap to the lips. The Boy Scouts of America has...
Excerpt-Yes, he brought mother here from Glengarry when I was a wee girl, so I am a Glengarry girl and very proud of it. Later he cleared the pine forest off--built the old mill--and later the factory.By Jove! How splendid! How magnificently splendid...
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This volume contains Ralph Connor's novel (published in 1900), "Black Rock - A Tale of the Selkirks". Set in a mining and lumberjack boom town in the 1880s, this literary work centres on a new minister who brings the fight for men's s...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Oh-h-h-h, Cam-er-on! Agony, reproach, entreaty, vibrated in the clear young voice that rang out over the Inverleith grounds. The Scottish line was sagging! â€" that line invincible in two years of Internat...
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Fifteen sketches detail the misadventures of schoolchildren during the pioneer days in Ontario, Canada. Detailing both the mischievous adventures of the youths alongside depictions of life in Canada at the time of Confederation, Glengarry School Days...
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Ranald Macdonald is man a living in rural eastern Ontario soon after the Canadian confederation. Faced with the challenges of rural life in Canada and following the example of the minister’s wife who serves as his role model, Ranald’s choices sha...
Some men and some scenes so fasten themselves into one's memory that the years, with their crowding scenes and men, have no power to displace them. I can never forget "Ould Michael" and the scene of my first knowing him. All day long I rode, driving ...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.High up on the hillside in the midst of a rugged group of jack pines the Union Jack shook out its folds gallantly in the breeze that swept down the Kicking Horse Pass. That gallant flag marked the headquart...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.It was one of November's rare days. The kindly air, vital with the breath of the north wind and mellow with the genial sun, was full of purple haze; the grass, still vividly green, gave no hint of the coming...
As in his tales of the West, this story abounds in humanity, heroism and tenderness. Ralph Connor is now, as then, the beloved Sky Pilot, the friend of ranchmen and of soldiers--a great leader in the cause of freedom and human love....
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.A ripple of cheers ran round the court, followed by a buzz of excited conversation....
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.There were two ways by which one could get to the Old Stone Mill. One, from the sideroad by a lane which, edged with grassy, flower- decked banks, wound between snake fences, along which straggled irregular ...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.In Western Canada there is to be seen to-day that most fascinating of all human phenomena, the making of a nation. Out of breeds diverse in traditions, in ideals, in speech, and in manner of life, Saxon and...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The measure of a man's power to help his brother is the measure of the love in the heart of him and of the faith he has that at last the good will win. With this love that seeks not its own and this faith t...