Canada

1763 – 1913

Canada grew from British colonies into a unified nation. Confederation, westward expansion, the transcontinental railway, and interactions with Indigenous peoples shaped Canada’s identity and development.

Picture books

I Am Not a Ghost: The Canadian Pacific Railway

Story of a Chinese worker helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway

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Cuthbert Grant

Story of a Metis leader

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The Journal of Étienne Mercier

Story of an expedition on the Canadian frontier

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Chapter books and novels

Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage

Fictional diary of a girl in a British loyalist family making a new life in Quebec

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Anne of Green Gables

Classic story of an imaginative PEI girl

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Dear Canada: A Rebel’s Daughter

Fictional diary of a girl protecting her family after the Upper Canada Rebellion in Toronto

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The Hungry Year

Story of a girl protecting her family through a hard frontier winter

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Dear Canada: Where the River Takes Me

Fictional diary of a girl living in Hudson’s Bay Company posts

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Mercury

Story of two girls in Nova Scotia, one modern and one from 1859

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Dear Canada: A Country of Our Own

Fictional diary of a girl in Ottawa witnessing the birth of the Confederation

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Non-fiction books

The Kids Book of Canadian History

Illustrated overview of Canadian history

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The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

History of Aboriginal groups in Canada

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The Kids Book of Canada’s Railway: and How the CPR Was Built

Exciting story of the Canadian Pacific Railway

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