1841-1867

Seventeen-year-old Francis Ross disappears the same day his mother discovers the body of his friend Laurent Jammet, sending Mrs. Ross and a half-Indian trapper named William Parkeron on a journey across the frozen landscape to find the murderer, her son, and two sisters who went missing years before.

Describes the events leading to the Confederation of various Canadian provinces to become the Dominion of Canada.

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.

Kathleen Byrne, disguised as a boy, leaves Ireland for Canada on a "coffin ship" in hopes of reuniting with her family, but the hardships of the voyage are only the beginning, as she faces poverty, prejudice, and an old enemy in a new country.

Two fifteen-year-old cousins, Nate in South Carolina and Walt in Canada, know nothing of each other until they are united by the Civil War and a runaway slave from Nate's plantation.

Seventeen-year-old Francis Ross disappears the same day his mother discovers the body of his friend Laurent Jammet, sending Mrs. Ross and a half-Indian trapper named William Parkeron a journey across the frozen landscape to find the murderer, her son, and two sisters who went missing years before.

In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.

Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.

Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.