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With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald

10 best books like With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald (Karleen Bradford): An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling, Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi, No Safe Harbour: The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn, Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott, A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall, Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates, Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt, Alone in an Untamed Land: The Filles Du Roi Diary of Helene St. Onge, Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen, Winter of Peril: The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge

An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling
AuthorGillian Chan
ISBN0779113535
Mei-ling lives with her father in Vancouver, but her mother and baby brother are still in China. Mei-ling works after school, and her father holds down several jobs, in a frantic effort to come up with the head tax that will allow her mother and brother to come to Canada. They must have that money before...
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
AuthorSusan Aihoshi
ISBN0439946603
The harsh conditions of an internment camp become a reality for a young Japanese-Canadian girl.

It is 1941 and Mary Kobayashi, a Canadian-born Japanese girl enjoys her life in Vancouver. She likes school, she likes her friends, and she yearns above all else to own a bicycle. Although WWII is...
No Safe Harbour: The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn
AuthorJulie Lawson
ISBN0439969301
Charlotte struggles to find her twin brother after the rest of her family is killed in the tragic Halifax explosion.

No Safe Harbour is set in the months before and after the December 6, 1917 Halifax explosion, which was the largest man-made blast in history until the dropping of the atomic bomb...
Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott
AuthorCarol Matas
ISBN0439988357
Isobel thinks that she and her family will find their fortune in Canada. But Isobel's mother dies before they even cross the ocean, and other misfortunes seem to follow their every step. Isobel's family and the other Selkirk Settlers find themselves caught in the fur-trading rivalry between the Hudson's...
A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall
AuthorSarah Ellis
ISBN0439988330
Ivy Weatherall and her family leave a comfortable life in London for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. Expecting to make their fortunes on Uncle Alf's ranch, the Weatheralls are shocked to find themselves living in a sod hut on a rented farm. Ivy is determined to taste life to the fullest,...
Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates
AuthorJean Little
Reason for Reading: I am working my way through this series. I chose this one in particular because I am participating in a WWI Reading Challenge.

I was thrilled when I saw Jean Little had written this; she is one of my childhood favourite authors and I just knew it was going to be good. A wonderful...
Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt
AuthorKit Pearson
ISBN0439988365
This book is one of the Dear Canada series, which are historical novels, written in diary format, about fictional girls during different periods of Canadian history.

Susanna Merritt is a young girl living near Niagara, Canada in 1812, the youngest in a large family. Susanna fears for her family...
Alone in an Untamed Land: The Filles Du Roi Diary of Helene St. Onge
AuthorMaxine Trottier
ISBN0439989698
Young Hélène St. Onge and her older sister Catherine are orphans. When King Louis XVI orders all men in New France to marry, Catherine becomes a fille du roi, one of the many young women sent to the new world as brides. Hélène will accompany her on the long sea voyage and live with her sister’s new family....
Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen
AuthorPerry Nodelman
ISBN0439961300
Not a Nickel to Spare is about Sally Cohen, a young girl who faces the difficulties of depression. But on top of worrying about having enough money to survive, Sally also faces the difficulties of being a jewish. With her cousin, Benny, Sally has many exciting adventures that help Sally face her fears...
Winter of Peril: The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge
AuthorJan Andrews
ISBN0779114094
Although I generally do very much love the Dear Canada series as a whole and still consider Jan Andrews' Winter Of Peril: The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge an adequate and informative enough offering, I nevertheless also cannot really say that I find either the author's presented writing...
Banished from Our Home: The Acadian Diary of Angélique Richard
AuthorSharon Stewart
ISBN0439974216
My gut reaction is a visceral "Gaaah! I pity the poor child who was given this to read."

*But I must be more tempered, more fair, says my inside voice.*

So -- here it is, my tempered, trying-to-be-fair-without-choking-on-it voice.

This book is from the Dear Canada series,...
Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk
AuthorMarsha Forchuk Skrypuch
ISBN0439956927
Reason for Reading: I am reading this whole series. I picked this particular volume because I am participating in a WWI reading challenge.

I've only read a couple of Skrypuch's books so far, but she has become one of my favourite Canadian juvenile authors. Mostly, her historical fiction revolves...
A Trail of Broken Dreams: The Gold Rush Diary of Harriet Palmer
AuthorBarbara Haworth-Attard
ISBN0439974054
Twelve year old Harriet Palmer's mother has just died after a difficult child-birth. With Mr. Palmer being out in the gold fields, Harriet and her little brother and sister have no where to go. Except the general store owners who they owe debt to. They aren't even glad to take them in, despite Mrs. Owen...
A Rebel's Daughter: The 1837 Rebellion Diary of Arabella Stevenson
AuthorJanet Lunn
ISBN0439969670
Young Arabella Stevenson has lived a comfortable upper class life in the growing city of Toronto, Upper Canada. But lately her barrister (lawyer) father has been talking with "suspicious" characters who want to reform the colony's heavily English-immigrant influenced government. Finally, there...
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