North America local history
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The Mexican TwinsThe Mexican TwinsTheir mother isnt called anything at all for short. She is always called Doa Teresa5. I do not know why this is, unless perhaps it is because she [p 2] can make better tortillas, and chicken mole, and candied sweet potatoes than...
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Life in MexicoLife in MexicoThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the...
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Life in the ClearingsLife in the ClearingsThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which...
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The Silver MapleThe Silver Maple The storm was over, the snow had ceased falling, and under its muffling mantle, white and spent with the day's struggle, lay the great swamp of the Oro. It seemed to hold in its motionless bosom the very spirit of silence...
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When Dreams Come TrueWhen Dreams Come TrueThe beauty of midsummer lay upon the landthe mountains and plains of Chihuahua. It was August, the month of melons and ripening corn. High aloft in the pale blue vault of heaven, a solitary eagle soared in ever widening circles in...
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Dictionnaire des barbarismes et des solécismesDictionnaire des barbarismes et des solécismesEn donnant au public ce petit Dictionnaire des Barbarismes et des Solcismes les plus ordinaires en ce pays, je ne me dissimule pas que cet ouvrage, d'un genre nouveau, sera accueilli par un grand nombre avec dfaveur, les uns...
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The Prairie ChildThe Prairie ChildI mean that, being married, youve run away with the idea that all birds nests are made out of 2 mud and straw, with possibly a garnish of horse hairs. But if youd really examine these edible nests youd find they were...
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Legends of VancouverLegends of Vancouver I have been asked to write a preface to these Legends of Vancouver, which, in conjunction with the members of the Publication Sub-committeeMrs. Lefevre, Mr. L. W. Makovski and Mr. R. W. DouglasI have helped to put through the press. But...
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The Cryptogram: A NovelThe Cryptogram: A Novel Chetwynde Castle was a large baronial mansion, belonging to the Plantagenet period, and situated in Monmouthshire. It was a grand old place, with dark towers, and turrets, and gloomy walls surmounted with battlements, half of which had long since tumbled...
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Travels in North America, From Modern WritersTravels in North America, From Modern Writers - With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the GlobeIn the preparation of this, and of the preceding volumes, of Travels in the South of Europe,...
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The End of the RainbowThe End of the Rainbow All afternoon the little town had lain dozing under the lullaby of a June rain. It was not so much a rain as a gentle dewy mist, touching the lawns and gardens and the maple trees that lined each...
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'Lizbeth of the Dale'Lizbeth of the Dale On the side porch of the gray stone house sat Miss Gordon, steadily darning at the eight pairs of stockings belonging to her eight nephews and nieces. The strenuous task of being foster-mother to the eight had long ago taught...
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In Orchard GlenIn Orchard Glen It was on Christina Lindsay's nineteenth birthday that she made the second Great Discovery about herself. The first one had been made when she was only eleven, and like the second it had proved an unpleasant surprise. It was midsummer holidays,...
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"The Red Watch": With the First Canadian Division in Flanders"The Red Watch": With the First Canadian Division in FlandersThe kind reception given to the rough notes from the Author's Diary, which appeared first in the daily papers in Canada, encouraged the production of this book. These notes, in order to make them more...
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The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican ValleyThe Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican ValleyThis laconism came from the lips of a young man who was walking along the Levee of New Orleans. Just before giving utterance to it he had made a sudden stop, facing a dead wall, enlivened,...
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David Fleming's ForgivenessDavid Fleming's ForgivenessThe first tree felled in the wilderness that lay to the south and west of the range of hills of which Hawks Head is the highest, was felled by the two brothers Holt. These men left the thickly-settled New England valley where...
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The King's Warrant: A Story of Old and New FranceThe King's Warrant: A Story of Old and New France t last England and France had formally drawn the sword which they had sheathed only eight years before at the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and the great struggle known in history as the Seven Years'...
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours. Tome IVHistoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours. Tome IVEtablissement d'un gouvernement reprsentatif.--Runion de la lgislature. --Le parti anglais veut abolir l'usage de la langue franaise; vives discussions il ce sujet.--Les Canadiens l'emportent.--La discussion est renouvele lors de la considration des rgles pour...
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours. Tome IIIHistoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours. Tome IIISituation des esprits en France et en Angleterre l'poque de la guerre de Sept ans.--La France change sa politique extrieure en s'alliant l'Autriche qui flatte madame de Pompadour, matresse de Louis XV.--Popularit de la...
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours. Tome IHistoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours. Tome I De l'Amrique; a-t-elle t connue des anciens?--L'Atlantide.--L'Amrique n'tait pas connue des modernes.--Dcouvertes des Portugais et des Espagnols.--Christophe Colomb; sa naissance, sa vie; il s'tablit Lisbonne; va en Espagne; Ferdinand et Isabelle qui il...
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