canada

Presents an introduction to the regional folklore of North America, examining the stories and traditions of eastern Canada, New England, the mid-Atlantic states, the Appalachian mountains, and other areas.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information about two hundred twentieth-century artists who have made important and influential contributions to Canadian art history.

In 1857, after her uncle evicts thirteen-year-old Tess and her father from their Scotland home and they are forced to immigrate to Vancouver Island, Canada, she forms her own opinions about social and class differences.

Explores how the fur trade shaped Canadian and American history during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, profiling the explorers who had a significant impact on the trade.

Tells the story of the crippling ice storm that struck parts of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States in January 1998 through a collection of over two hundred photographs taken by photographers from nine Canadian newspapers.

Surveys the history of Canada from the earliest Asian civilizations to today.

After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.

After seeking a better life outside the refugee camps in Cambodia, Tranh tries to start a new life at his new school in Canada, but when Martin Beamis starts bullying him, Tranh wonders how better off he really is.

In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.

Covers all mammals found in North America north of Mexico, including near-shore waters, providing descriptions, range maps, illustrations, and photos of skulls.