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Colonial Canada: 1600–1867
Canada · 1600–1867 · exact time + place
Early French and British colonial struggles, indigenous relations, and the birth of a nation rich in multicultural stories — coureurs des bois, rebellions, and confederation. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Canada and 1600–1867 already set.
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Browse 18 books, 7 movies and 2 TV shows set in Canada.
The Book of Negroes
Based on a true story, "The Book of Negroes" tells the story of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali aged 11 in 1755, and who, after a deathly journey on a slave ship where she witnesses the brutal…
Torn
Still reeling from their experiences in Roanoke in 1600, Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 only moments before a mutiny on Henry Hudson’s ship in the icy waters of James Bay. But things are messed up: they’ve lost the…
Alias Grace
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet…
Black Robe
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted though warily by the Indians LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and…
Alias Grace
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a…
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMSOnly eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity…
The Terror
The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically…
The Raid
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he…
Freedom
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave Samuel Woodward and his family escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known…
Call Of The Wild
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
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