Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
Presents an overview of the early Canadian settlements of New France and Acadia, from 1524-1701, describing the first French settlers and how they survived snowy winter, starvation, and disease.
Chronicles the settlement of the colony of New France in Canada and discusses how they worked, what they wore, what they ate, and how they managed to survive the long winters.
The life of the sixteenth-century French navigator and explorer whose discovery of the St. Lawrence River and the fertile land beyond led to the establishment of a French colony in the Americas.
Presents a brief biography of sixteenth-century French navigator who made three voyages to what is today known as Canada, in search of a northwest passage to China, providing information on his life and travels.
At the end of the 17th century in Quebec, C?cile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary, live a life very different than the one they knew in Paris.
