The land of Os : John Ramsay
(2014)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Portage & Main Press, 2014
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781553794929 (electronic bk.) MWT11965678, 1553794923 (electronic bk.) 11965678
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
When Richard's class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an ederly woman. She tells them the story of her grandfather, John Ramsay, of the Sandy Bar community on Lake Winnipeg. Ramsay's land was taken by the government and given to the new settlers from Iceland who arrived there in 1875. Yet many owed their survial to Ramsay, who helped them through freezing winters, hunger, and a devastating smallpox epidemic
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