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Read Your Way Through Canadian History with Children's Literature Chronological History Reading List
Native Indians Inuit Vikings Early Exploration Acadia New France Fur Trade 7 Years War United Empire Loyalists Life In The 1700's War of 1812 Underground Railroad Rebellion 0f 1837 Western Exploration Opening of The West Settling of The West 1866- Fenian Uprising Reil Rebellion Arctic Exploration BC Gold Rush Klondike Gold Rush Life In The 1800's WWI The Depression (1930's) Life In The 1900's - Pre WWII WWII Government Post WWII - Modern History Narrative Text That Cover Range of History Miscellaneous	A message from Nicola: Hopefully this listing will help you while you study Canadian History. This was continually a work in progress for me and I added to it as I found appropriate books. The Grades suggested are for Reading Levels only. I would also like to thank my friends on the SLCanada E-Mail Loop for their wonderful suggestions.

REIL REBELLION Battle Cry at Batoche B. J. Bayle YA Flaming Prairies John F. Hayes Gr. 5+ On the Trail of Long Tom W.T. Cutt Gr. 7+ Perilous Prairie Dickson Reynolds Revolt in the West Edward McCourt Gr. 5+ Soldier Boys David Richards Gr. 6+ A Very Small Rebellion Jan Truss Gr. 5+

ARCTIC EXPLORATION Across Frozen Seas John Wilson (time travel, Franklin expedition) Young Adult Arctic Assignment SGT. F.S. Farrar Gr. 5+ Coppermine Journey Farley Mowat Gr. 6+ Dr. Kane of the Arctic Seas Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ Jane Franklin's Obsession Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ The Link Between the Oceans Leslie H. Neatby Mystery in the Frozen Lands Martyn Godfrey Gr. 5+ On Foot to the Arctic Ronald Syme Gr. 3+ Parry of the Arctic Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ Trapped in the Arctic Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ The True North T.C. Farley Gr. 5+

BC GOLD RUSH Cariboo Runaway Frances Duncan Gr. 4+ The Doctor's Apprentice Ann Walsh (Barkerville blaze, 1868) Young Adult The Golden Rose DAYLE CAMPBELL GAETZ Gr. 5+ The Man with the Yellow Eyes Catherine Anthony Clark Gr. 3+ Quest in the Cariboo John F. Hayes Gr. 5+ West to the Cariboo Lorrie McLaughlin Gr. 2-4 Your Time My Time Ann Walsh (time travel, Barkerville) Young Adult

KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH Before the Gold Rush Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ The Bite of the Gold Bug Barthe DeClements Gr. 3+ Bonanza Gold Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ City of Gold Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert W. Service Gr. 5+ The Golden Trail Pierre Berton Gr. 5+ Gold-Fever Trail Monica Hughes Gr. 5+ Kings of the Klondike Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ The Klondike Stampede Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ Martha Black, Gold Rush Pioneer Carol Martin Stampede North Ruth Franchere Gr. 5+ Trails of '98 Pierre Berton Gr. 4+ When Men Panned Gold in the Klondike Edward C. Janes Gr. 3+ Yukon River: An Adventure to the Gold Fields of the Klondike Peter Lourie Gr. 3+

LIFE IN THE 1800'S The Accidental Orphan Constance Horne (late 1800s, orphans, Manitoba homesteading) Young Adult Alexander Graham Bell, An Inventive Life Elizabeth MacLeod Gr. 3+ Alexander Graham Bell, Man of Sound Elizabeth Rider Montgomery Gr. 2-6 All About Niagara Falls Linda Granfield Gr. 3+ The Back Woods of Canada Catherine Parr Trail Gr. 7+ The Belonging Place Jean Little Gr. 3+ Beyond the Waterfall Elaine Breault Hammond Gr. 5+ Canal Boy Marion Greene Gr. 5+ Danger in the Coves Frances C. Thompson Gr. 2-4 Danger on the Tracks Bill Freeman Gr. 4+ Death Over Montreal Geoffrey Bilson Gr. 4+ Eleanore's Diary Caroline Parry Gr. 5+ Eliza's Best Wednesday Catherine Lalonde Gr. 2+ First Lady of Upper Canada Florence McLaughlin Gr. 5+ First Spring on the Grand Banks Bill Freeman Gr. 4+ Forgotten Canadians Herbert Fairlie Wood Glengarry School Days - Lesson Plan Ralph Connor Gr. 7+ Harbour Thieves Bill Freeman Gr. 4+ Hester's Summer Gordon Cooper Gr. 5+ Lamplighter Bernice Thurman Hunter Gr. 3+ The Last Voyage of the Scotian Bill Freeman Gr. 4+ Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush Susannah Moodie Gr. 7+ The Mennonite Canadians Joanne Flint Pioneer Crafts Barbara Greenwood Gr. 3+ A Pioneer Story: Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840 Barbara Greenwood Gr. 3+ A Pioneer Thanksgiving: A Story of the Harvest Celebration Barbara Greenwood Gr. 3+ The Pioneer Years Barry Broadfoot Gr. 8+ Prairie Fire! Bill Freeman Gr. 4+ The Quarter-Pie Window Marianne Brandis Gr. 6+ Red Paddles Isabel M. Reekie Gr. 5+ River Race Tony German Gr. 5+ The Root Cellar Janet Lunn Gr. 5+ Roughing It in the Bush Susannah Moodie Gr. 7+ The Secret of Willow Castle Lyn Cook Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt Barbara Smucker Gr. 2+ Selina and the Shoo-Fly Pie Barbara Smucker Gr. 2+ Shantymen of Cache Lake Bill Freeman Gr. 4+ The Sign of the Scales Marianne Brandis Gr. 6+ The Talking Wire O.J. Stevenson Gr. 4+ The Time of the Wolf Thomas A. MacDonald Gr. 4+ The Tinderbox Marianne Brandis Gr. 6+ The Tin-Lined Trunk Mary Hamilton Gr. 4+ Tom Penny Tony German Gr. 5+ Tom Penny and the Grand Canal Tony German Gr. 5+ Trail of Fire B. J. Bayle Gr. 4+ The Tramp Room Nancy-Lou Patterson Trouble at Lachine Mill Bill Freeman Gr. 4+ The Value of Self-Discipline: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell Anne Donnegan Johnson Gr. 2-4 White Jade Tiger Julie Lawson (1880s Victoria, BC, Chinatown, CPR) Young Adult Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada Anna Brownell Jameson Gr. 7+ Within a Painted Past Hazel J. Hutchins Gr. 5+ The Yellow Flag Susanne McSweeney Gr. 2-4

WW I Days of Terror Barbara Smucker Gr. 4+ The Halifax Disaster Ernest Fraser Robinson Gr. 5+ In Flanders Fields Linda Granfield Gr. 3+ Knights of the Air John Norman Harris Gr. 5+ Rilla of Ingleside L.M. Montgomery Gr. 5+

THE DEPRESSION (1930'S) As for Me and My House Sinclair Ross Gr. 9+ A Bird in the House Margaret Laurence Gr. 9+ Breakaway Paul Yee Gr. 7+ Butter Down the Well: Reflections of a Canadian Childhood Robert Collins Gr. 7+ From Anna Jean Little Gr. 4+ Kaarina and the Sugar Bag Vest Irma McDonough Milnes Gr. 3+ Margy Margaret Smith Gr. 4+ The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence Gr. 9+ Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression Barry Broadfoot Gr. 8+ That Scatterbrain Booky With Love From Booky As Ever, Booky Bernice Thurman Hunter Gr. 4+ Who Has Seen the Wind W.O. Mitchell Gr. 6+

LIFE IN THE 1900'S - PRE WWII Amy's Promise Bernice Thurman Hunter Gr. 4+ The Auction Jan Andrews Picture Book Belle's Journey Marilynn Reynolds Picture Book Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods John J. Rowlands Charlotte's Vow Marion Woodson (1912, BC coal mining) YA Emily Carr's Woo Constance Horne Gr. 3+ Frederick G. Banting: The Discoverer of Insulin I.E. Levine Gr. 5+ Goodbye Sarah Geoffrey Bilson Gr. 4+ Grass Beyond The Mountains Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy The Rancher Takes a Wife Richmond P. Hobson Jr His Banner Over Me Jean Little Gr. 4+ Home Child Barbara Haworth-Attard Gr. 4+ Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story Jim McGugan Gr. 4+ Klee Wyck Emily Carr Gr. 7+ A Miracle for Maggie Stephen Eaton Hume (1920s Nova Scotia, Toronto, Banting, diabetes) YA Mrs. Mike Nancy & Benedict Freedman Gr. 7+ Nellie L. Constance Crook Gr. 4+ Pit Pony Joyce Barkhouse Gr. 3+ A Place For Magaret Margaret in the Middle Margaret on Her Way Bernice Thurman Hinter Gr. 4+ Promise Song Linda Holeman Strange School, Secret Wish Bernice Gold (1927 Northern Ontario Railway communities) YA They Called Her Mrs. Doc Janette Oke Gr. 6+ Thistle Creek Nell Hanna Gr. 6+ Ticket to Curlew Celia Barker Lottridge Gr. 4+ Tom Thomson's Last Paddle Larry McCloskey (modern day sleuths investigate artists 1917 mysterious death) YA Trapped by Coal Constance Horne Gr. 3+ Under Emily's Sky Ann Alma (1930s, time travel, Emily Carr) Young Adult Where the High Winds Blow Bruce D. Campbell Gr. 6+ Where the Saints Have Trod Judith St. John Gr. 5+ The White Stone in the Castle Wall Sheldon Oberman Picture Book The Wooden People Myra Paperny Gr. 4+ any titles L.M. Montgomery Gr. 6+ Wilderness Man: The Amzing True Story of Grey Owl Lovat Dickson Gr. 7+

WW II Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice Janet McNaughton Gr. 7+ A Child in Prison Camp Takashima Gr. 4+ Explosion at Dawson Creek Elaine Breault Hammond Gr. 5+ Hawk and Stretch Bernice Thurman Hunter Gr. 4+ High Flight: A Story of World War II Linda Granfield Hockeybat Harris Geoffrey Bilson Gr. 5+ Just Like New Ainslie Manson & Karen Reczuch Gr. 1-3 Listen to the Singing Jean Little Gr. 4+ Naomi's Road Joy Kogawa Gr. 4+ The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager's Story of War and Peace Lillian Boraks-Nemetz Gr. 6+ One More Border:The True Story of One Family's Escape from War-torn Europe Shelly Tanaka Gr. 4+ Ships of the Great Days Joseph Schull Gr. 5+ Six War Years Barry Broadfoot Gr. 8+ The Sky Is Falling Looking at the Moon The Lights Go On Again Kit Pearson GR. 4+ Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame Barry Broadfoot Gr. 8+

GOVERNMENT Canada Votes: How We Elect Our Government Linda Granfield The Kids Book of Candian Prime Ministers from MacDonald to Chretien Pat Hancock Gr. 3+ Parliament, Canada's Democracy and How it Works Maureen McTeer Sandy Mackenzie, Why Look So Glum? poems on each prime minister from MacDonald to Clark

POST WWII - MODERN HISTORY The Gambler's Daughter Shirlee Smith Matheson (1940s, BC, Ghost Town, Gambling) Young Adult A Hill for Looking Martha Brooks Gr. 5+ Lucy Maud and Me (1940s Toronto, Lucy Maud Montgomery) Young Adult The Night Hazel Came to Town John Ibbitson Gr. 7+ One Proud Summer Marsha Hewitt & Claire Mackay Gr. 6+ Pegeen and the Pilgrim Lyn Cook Gr. 4+ The Railroader Bernice Thurman Hunter Gr. 4+ Skateway to Freedom Ann Alma (1989 Berlin Wall, German immigrant in Calgary) Terry Fox: His Story Leslie Scrivener Gr. 6+ The Treasure of the Long Sault Monica Hughes Gr. 6+ The Value of Facing a Challenge: The Story of Terry Fox Anne Donnegan Johnson Gr. 2-4 The Value of Tenacity: The Story of Maurice Richard Anne Donnegan Johnson Gr. 2-4

NARRATIVE TEXTS THAT COVER WHOLE RANGE OF CANADIAN HISTORY Canada A Country by Consent CD ROM All Ages Canada and Her Story Mary Graham Bonner The Canadian Story May McNeer & Lynd Ward Gr. 3+ Famous Canadian Stories George E. Tait Gr. 5+ Finding New Homes in Canada Edwin C. Guillet & Jessie E. McEwen Gr. 3+ The Great Adventure Donalda Dickie Gr. 4+ Great Canadian Lives: Portraits in Heroism to 1867 Karen Ford Gr. 3+ Larger than Life Janet Lunn Gr. 4+ My First History of Canada Donalda Dickie Gr. 4+ O Canada! Isabel Barclay Gr. 3+ One Dominion George E. Tait Pages from Canada's Story Donalda Dickie Gr. 4+ A Picture Gallery of Canadian History (3 Vols.) C. W. Jeffreys All Ages A Picture History of Canada Clarke Hutton Gr. 3+ The Story of Canada Janet Lunn Gr. 5+ The Story of Canada George W. Brown Gr. 5+ Winds Through Time edited by Ann Walsh (anthology short historical fiction) Young Adult Young Canada Anne Merriman Peck

MISCELLANEOUS The All Canadian Trivia Junior Board Game Gr. 4+ Brain Quest Canada Linda Granfield & Pat Hancock Gr. 4+ Canada: Portraits of Faith Michael Clarke Gr. 6+ Canada's Maple Leaf: The Story of Our Flag Owens & Yealland Gr. 3+ Forts of Canada Owens & Yealland Gr. 3+ Her Story: Women From Canada's Past Susan E. Merritt Gr. 6+ Her Story II:Women From Canada's Past Susan E. Merritt Gr. 6+

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