Title: Meet J. Armand BombardierAuthor: Elizabeth MacLeod Illustrator: Mike Deas Publisher: Scholastic, 2022  MEET J. ARMAND BOMBARDIER BOOK SUMMARY Meet Joseph-Armand Bombardier ― Canadian inventor, innovator and entrepreneur!Born in 1907, Joseph-Armand grew up in Valcourt, a small village in Quebec. Like many places in rural and Northern Canada, it was often cut off from the world after […]

Title: Meet Mary Ann Shadd Author: Elizabeth MacLeod Illustrator: Mike Deas Publisher: Scholastic MEET MARY SHADD BOOK SUMMARY Meet Mary Ann Shadd: anti-slavery activist, newspaper publisher, and social justice pioneer! The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives of remarkable Canadians whose achievements have inspired and changed the lives of those who followed. Mary Ann Shadd was […]

Title: Meet Viola Desmond Author: Elizabeth MacleodIllustrated by: Mike Deas Published in 2018 by Scholastic CanadaAge Range: Picture book (ages 6-10)Location: Nova Scotia Book Summary Meet Viola Desmond, community leader and early civil rights trailblazer! On the night of November 8th 1946, Nova Scotia businesswoman Viola Desmond stood up for her right to be in the “unofficial” whites-only section of […]

Title: Africville by Shauntay GrantIllustrated by: Eva Campbell Published in 2018 by Groundwood Books Age Range: Picture book (ages 4-7)Location: Nova Scotia Book Summary When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like —the brightly painted houses […]

This post includes affiliate links. From the early 1900s to 2000, a newspaper called The Western Producer included a special section that published the works of kids all over the prairies of Canada. They were members of the Young Co-Operators’ Club, kids who sent in their poems and stories to earn points and badges. Carol […]

Canada’s history is full of stories of the experiences of people who have lived here, but we often get caught up in the big picture moments instead of magnifying these little moments. YesterCanada by Elma Schemenauer is a collection of short historical fiction stories that pause at these unique events to give us a glimpse […]

One of the biggest dark spots on Canadian history is the implementation of the residential school system for the First Nations children. With the intention of helping Indian children from savage to civilized, they were torn away from their families and forced to live in schools where they were stripped of everything of their culture, […]

Title: Through Flood and Fire {Book Review} Author: Anne Patton Publisher: Coteau Books Age Range: Children (9+) Time Period: 1903 Location: Saskatchewan Dorothy is in a campsite on the edge of a little village called Saskatoon. The year is 1903 and the 10-year-old girl and her family have come all the way from England to Canada. They are heading to […]

Title: A Matter of Conscience Author: Mary Hosmar Publisher: Word Alive Press Age Range: Children (9+) Time Period: 1837 Location: Upper Canada “Fifteen-year-old Jamie MacPhearson is confused. Everyone seems to want change but can’t agree as to how that change should come about. William Lyon Mackenzie is calling the people of Upper Canada to arm themselves and break free of the […]