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How to Camp Out

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John Mead Gould


Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

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E. Louise Smythe


This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lis…

47 - Snow-white and Rose-red

In The Fairy Ring

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Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin


The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…

Section 6

In Write it Right

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Ambrose Bierce


Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

08 - The Plains of Abraham September 13, 1759

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe

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William Wood


Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a…

The Jest that Failed

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

10 - 'Nunc Dimittis' 1796-1808

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 12 - The Father of British Canada; A Chronicle of …

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William Wood


Carleton’s first eight years as governor of Canada were almost entirely occupied with civil administration. The next four were equally occup…

3 - The Advance on Denain

In Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - No…

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John Livesay and John Frederick Bligh Livesay


This is Part Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to …

The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

The White Cat

In My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales

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Edric Vredenberg


This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (…

23 - Philip V (1316-1322)

In French History for English Children

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Caroline Emelia Stephen


A history of France from Ancient Gaul up until 1880, written in short easy to comprehend chapters aimed at teaching English children. (Summa…

Chapter XVI, Part 01

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 16)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 3 chapter 16 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

3 - Other Explorers on the Bay

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay

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Agnes C. Laut


The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the si…

When Jack and Jill Took a Hand

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

Foxglove

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900

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Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

Nan

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first ha…