Esther

Bible (KJV) 17: Esther

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King James Version



Esther appears in the Bible as a woman of deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter …

The Copyright Question

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George Morang



This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested an appearance before the Toronto Board of Tra…

The Backwoods of Canada

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Catharine Parr Traill



The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

The Fur Country

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Jules Verne



In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees,…

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

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Laurence Housman



It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to w…

An Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

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Jules Verne



Edgar Allan Poe's telling of Arthur Pym's narrative is shown to be true as events come together that bring out clues that help Captain Len G…

God's Country—And the Woman

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James Oliver Curwood



James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that pro…

Fast in the Ice

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R. M. Ballantyne



At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every…

Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life

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H. Rider Haggard



This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adult…

A Little Servant

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Grace Livingston Hill



A short story of a little girl who is Jesus' servant and how she won the heart of an unbelieving gardener. Summary by Esther

Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)

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Richard Burton Deane



Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life,…

The Mounties in the News

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The New York Times



A newspaper account of the activities in the Western Canada during the Riel Rebellion and some of the aftermath , articles dating from Augus…

History of Farming in Ontario

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C. C. James



This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888…