Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea

Awards

Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2004
Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Book Award (BC Children's Choice), 2003
Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2003
Short-listed, Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize (BC), 2002
Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2002
Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Our Choice, 2002
Commended, Canadian Library Association Book of the Year For Children, 2001

Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall, Milorie, Saskatchewan, 1926

Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443113342 Ebook
208 Pages | Ages 8 to 12

Ivy Weatherall is just 11 years old when her family leaves England for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. They've come to join her uncle for the available land, the lush harvests, and the opportunity for success. But in Milorie, Saskatchewan, their dreams crumble into dust when they reach Uncle Alf's small sod hut and discover that jobs are scarce, and that they can barely make ends meet.

Ivy's relatives pack up and head back to England, but to Ivy, Canada is full of wonder and beginning to feel like home. There are challenges in her new life, but Ivy's feisty character and her sense of wonder for a prairie as wide as the sea make her adventure one that readers won't easily forget. Vetted by a historical expert, this book contains maps, period illustrations/documents, and an extensive historical note.