Young Jacques Cartier, fishing the Grand Banks of Newfoundland with his father, was curious about the land he saw westward, but no one else was interested. They just wanted to catch cod and go home.
What a moving biography Syme has written of the tragic explorer Henry Hudson! This story for middle school children, the best I have read about Hudson, is unusual for this age range
photograph of the Driving of the Last Spike, the historic moment signifying completion of the great railway that Canada’s confederation was built on. But look closely at the picture. Who’s that boy right in the middle of all the dignitaries, behind the one driving the spike? - See more at: photograph of the Driving of the Last Spike, the historic moment signifying completion of the great railway that Canada’s confederation was built on. But look closely at the picture. Who’s that boy right in the middle of all the dignitaries, behind the one driving the spike? - See more at: #sthash.cN6QLiiS.dpuf#sthash.cN6QLiiS.dpuf
When their father went off to war, George, Jack and their mother, Mrs. Braun, moved to Whitby Ontario. After all, there was no way they could run the farm without him. Mrs. Braun took a job in the huge local munitions factory and, in the summer vacation of 1943, there was no one to take care of the boys. But Jack, fourteen, did his best to care for George who was just a few weeks shy of twelve. Together they delivered papers, played war in the woods, explored the area, and went floating down a little creek. But something did not seem quite right. What was on the other side of the culvert? What were the men doing on the bridge? Why were they speaking German? Were they Nazis?
Enter story series of World War II books for young people that ranges from Ontario to Bermuda to England.
Safe as Houses, a story of what happened in 1954 when Hurricane Hazel strengthened, rather than dissipated, over Lake Ontario and dropped almost a foot of water over a small town north of Toronto.
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