The time: 1899. The place: South Africa. The event: The Boer War. Whether in full-scale battles or in an intense private fight between two men in an old abandoned house, Jack Randall, a twenty-year-old Newfoundlander, faces death and sees the horr...
It was a long way from Grey County, Ontario to the rich farmlands around Souris, Manitoba, b ut eight-year-old Nellie mooney (McClung) with her family endured the hardships of the journey, and the harshness of prairie winters to establish their ne...
The rich fur-bearing region of the Annapolis Basin was thousands of kilometres away from the intrigues of the court of France. But how long could Marie de la Tour defy the King of France and his representatives, even if she got help from France’...
Jolliet, Canada’s first native born explorer, travels into the heart of the North American continent, through unknown lands teeming with unfamiliar Indians and strange animals, to search for the source of that great river â€" the Mississippi....
The mighty Huron Indians met Samuel de Champlain on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. They were confident his guns would help them defeat their old enemies, the Iroquois. But a few years later …...
The Long Sault rapids near Montreal in 1660: Dollard des Ormeaux with a band of 17 Frenchmen and 40 Hurons and Algonquin Indians come face to face with over 700 Iroquois warriors on their way to attack Montreal....
Everyone told them it was a challenge to cross the Rocky Mountains in search of gold. For one set of overlanders, Augustus Schubert, his parents and sister, their journey became a series of disasters.
...Sergeant James Walsh of the Northwest Mounted Police had a difficult task: to earn the respect and trust of Sitting Bull and his fierce Sioux warriors after the defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn....
Melissa seems to be a model mother raising two daughters in a remote community. Then the daughter of the woman she has murdered shows up at her doorstep. She must protect her daughters and the life she has built....