diaries

Twelve-year-old Sophie Loveridge chronicles the experiences of her family as they spend one winter in Newfoundland during the early eighteenth-century.

Ivy Weatherall records the events and her experiences in their family's trip from England to Canada in May of 1926.

Presents the fictional diary of Victoria Cope, eleven years old in 1897, in which she describes events at her Canadian household when her mother becomes pregnant and the family takes in an orphan, or home girl, who quickly becomes dear to everyone's heart.

Thirteen-year-old Josephine describes, in journal format, her mixed feelings about the North West Resistance against the white settlers in the late nineteenth century as the M?tis and allied First Nations fight for their way of life in Canada.

Presents a youth novel set in Vancouver during the 1920s about the effects of the Chinese Head Tax on a young girl's struggle to reunite her family.

Genevieve Aubuchon, twelve-years-old in 1759, receives a journal for her birthday in which she records the details of her life in Quebec, New France, and her concerns that she may have to flee in the face of British invasion.

An historical novel written as the diary of Flora Rutherford, who is taken in by her aunt and uncle and must work at a textile mill to help them out.

Young Flora keeps a journal of her time in a textile mill after leaving an orphanage to live with her aunt and uncle, covering the dangers of being injured or going deaf, her feelings over losing her parents at a young age, and her struggle to help her relatives survive.

The story of the expulsion of the Acadians by the British from Nova Scotia in 1755 is told through a series of diary entries by young Angelique Richard, whose father and brothers are imprisoned and remaining family members are sent away from their colony.

In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family's experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert's Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cree Indian neighbors and, especially, White Loon, their father's new wife.