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Picture Books

**alphabetic by author

Very last first time (1985) by Jan Andrews ; illustrated by Ian Wallace - JPic An26
Gregory and Alexander (2003) by William Barringer; illustrated by Kim LaFave - JPic B2775g
Goodness Gracious, Gulliver Mulligan (2002) by Susan Chalker Browne; illustrated by Cynthia Nugent - JPic B8185g
The Hockey Sweater (1984)by Roch Carrier ; illustrated by Sheldon Cohen - JPic C2343h
Maple Moon (1997) by Connie Crook; illustrated by Scott Cameron - JPic C8825m
Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Bay (2004) by Peter Cumming; illustrated by Alice Priestley. 2004 - JPic C9126ou
The Little Duck/Sikihpsis (1999) English by Beth Cuthand; Cree by Stan Cuthand; illustrated by Mary Longman - JPic C9725L
Afraid of the Dark (1980) by Barry Dickson - JPic D5604a
Snow Paws (1996) by Mary Alice Downie; illustrated by Kathryn Naylor - JPic D759sn
All Along the River (2004) by Blair Drawson - JPic D7975aL
Amber Waiting (2002) by Nan Gregory; illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton - JPic G8625am
Prairie Summer (1999) by Nancy Hundal - JPic H8919p
Penguin Small (1992) by Mick Inkpen, Mick - JPic In56p
Anna's Goat/ (2000) by Janice Keefer - JPic K243an
A Northern Nativity: Christmas Dreams of a Prairie Boy (1976) by William Kurelek - JPic K965n
Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid (2003) by Julie Lawson - JPic L4450ar
Whatever You Do, Don't Go Near That Canoe! (1996) by Julie Lawson - JPic L4450w
The Sugaring-Off Party (1995) by Jonathan London; illustrated by Gilles Pelletier - JPic L846s
The Yellow Flag (1980) by Susanne McSweeney ; illustrated by Brenda Clark - JPic M248y
Acadian summer (1985) by Rosemary Neering - JPic N294a
The Subway Mouse (2003) by Barbara Reid -JPic R2722su
The Way Home (1999) by Nan Rossiter - JPic R737w
Me and Mr. Mah (1999)by Andrea Spalding ; illustrated by Janet Wilson. 1999 - JPic Sp182m
The Most Beautiful Kite in the World (2003) by Andrea Spalding - JPic Sp182mo
Michi's New Year (1980) by Shelley Tanaka ; illustrated by Ron Berg - JPic T153m
The Chinese Violin (2001) by Madeleine Thien; illustrations by Joe Chang - JPic T347c
The Night Walker (2002) by Richard Thompson - JPic T377n
The Paint Box (2003) by Maxine Trottier & Stella East - JPic T756p
What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses? (1998) by Richard Van Camp - JPic V277w
Nic of the Woods (1965) by Lynd Ward - JPic W214n
Hidden Buffalo (2003) by Rudy Wiebe. 2003 - JPic W6348h

Fiction

**alphabetic by author
The Scream of the Hawk (2003) by Nancy Belgue - Juv B4115sc
Tunnels of Treachery (2003) by Mary Harelkin Bishop - Juv B5414t
Summer of the Houseboat (1968) by Barbara Brenner - Juv B7511s
Trapped by Coal (1994) by Constance Horne - Juv B7835t
The Talking Cat, and Other Stories of French Canada (1952) by Natalie Carlson - Juv C197ta
The Hand of Robin Squires (2005) by Joan Clark - Juv C548h
Hide-and-Seek (1979) by Betty Clarkson Juv C56h
Le Wapiti: Roman (1964) by Monique Corriveau - Juv C817w
The Sacred Eagle Feather (1997) by Charlene Crowe - Juv C8859sa
The Secret Life of Owen Skye (2002) by Alan Cumyn - Juv C9135se
The Snow Fox: A Tale of Canada (1968)by Arnold Dobrin - Juv D655s
Incident at Hawk's Hill (1971)by Allan W. Eckert - Juv Ec57i
Return to Hawk's Hill: A Novel (1998)by Allan W. Eckert - Juv Ec57r
The Several Lives of Orphan Jack (2003) by Sarah Ellis - Juv EL597se
Star in the Storm(2000) by Joan Hiatt Harlow - Juv H2276st
The Dangerous Cove: A Story of the Early Days in Newfoundland (1957) by John Hayes. 1957 - Juv H327
Muinji'j Becomes a Man (2003) by Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe - Juv J59m
A Very Fine Line (2006)by Julie Johnston - Juv J6439v
Wild Voyageur: Story of a Canada Goose (1966) by Adrienne Jones - Juv J71w
Emily: Summer of Gold (2004) by Julie Lawson - Juv L4450em
The Klondike Cat (2002) by Julie Lawson - Juv L4450k
Ticket to Canada (1995) by Celia Barker Lottridge - Juv L9186t
Ticket to Curlew (1992) by Celia Barker Lottridge - Juv L9186tc
The Root Cellar (1996) by Janet Swoboda Lunn - Juv L973
Stories from across Canada (1966)by Bernard McEvoy - Juv M157
Leaving the Log House (2003)by Ainslie Manson - Juv M3185L
Foot Steps in the Snow (2002) by Carol Matas - Juv M41f
The sky is Falling (1989)by Kit Pearson - Juv P3175s
The Wagner Whacker (1996) by Joseph Romain - Juv R66
Initiation (2003) by Virginia Frances Schwartz - Juv Sch952in
Summer of the Mad Monk (1994) by Cora Taylor Juv T212
Moses, Me & Murder (1988) by Ann Walsh. 1988 - Juv W1678m
Tiger Town (2000) by Eric Walters. 2002 - Juv W1715t
On Firm Ice (1969)by Carter Wilson - Juv W6918
Ghosts of James Bay (2001) by John Wilson - Juv W6945g
The Black Sunshine of Goody Pryne (2003) by Sarah Withrow - Juv W779b
Jack: The Story of a Beaver (2002) by Shirley Woods - Juv W8365j
The Boy in the Burning House (2001)by Tim Wynne-Jones - Juv W992b
Rex Zero and the End of the World Time (2007) by Wynne-Jones. 2007 - Juv W992r

Nonfiction

**alphabetic by title within topics
300s: Social Sciences
By Canoe & Moccasin (1986) by Basil H. Johnston - Juv 398.2 J641b
Canada's automotive industry (1970)by James Dykes - Juv 338.4 D991
Canada's Aviation Industry (1968) by Lorne Manchester - Juv 387.7 M312
Canada's Oil Industry (1969)by Edward Davis- Juv 338.2 D292
Canada's Railways (1968)by R.A.J. Phillips - Juv 385 P546
Glooskap's country and other Indian tales (1956) by Cyrus MacMillan - Juv 389.2 M228
The Mennonite Canadians (1980)by Joanne Flint - Juv 305.6 F646m
The Mounties and Law Enforcement (1980)by Bruce Sealey - Juv 363.2 Se15
Nellie McClung and Women's Rights (1980) by Helen Wright - Juv 305.4 W932n
The RCMP Musical Ride (2004)by Maxwell Newhouse Juv 363.2 N457r
R. B. Russell and the Labour Movemen (1978)by Kenneth Osborne - Juv 331.8 Os2r
398: Folktales
The Golden phoenix: And other French-Canadian Fairy Tales (1958) edited by Marius Barbeau- Juv 398.2 B232
How Summer Came to Canada (1969) by William Toye. 1969 - Juv 398.2 T668
How the Eagle Got His White Head (2002) byJane Chartrand - Juv 398.2 C3855h
Kou-Skelowh/We Are the People: A Trilogy of Okanagan legends (2000)illustrated by Barbara Marchand - Juv 398.2 M3319k
The Little Hen of Huronia (1971) by Chip Young - Juv 398.2 Y848L
Nanbosho Grants a Wish (2000) by Joe & Matrine McLellan - Juv 398.2 M2245n
On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians (2000) by Michael B. RunningWolf - Juv 398.2 R8753on
Six Micmac Stories (1989) by Ruth Holmes Whitehead - Juv 398.2 W587si
Three Tuneful Tales (2003) by Marilyn Helmer - Juv 398.2 H3685t
The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon (2002) by Janie Park - Juv 398.2 P2194t
500s: Science
Canada Geese (1976) by Jack Denton Scott - Juv 598.4 Sco84c
Daniel's Dinosaurs: A True Story of Discovery (2004) By Charles Helm - Juv 567.9 H3679d
Furbearers of Yukon (1987) illustrated by Kathi Romanchuk. 1987Juv 599.7 F966
Oiseaux de Mon Pays (1970) by Alice Duchesnay - Juv 598.2 D857o
600s Applied Science & Technology
Canada's Agriculture (1970) by Dean Walker - Juv 630 W151
Lumberjack (1974) by William Kurelek - Juv 634.9 K965
700s: Art & Recreation
Barns: From Our Pioneers, Builders of a Nation (2005) by Ernie Faessler - Juv 728 F1295b
Canada (1992) by Ted Harrison - Juv 759.11 H248oc
The Huron Carol (1990) by Father Jean de Brebeuf - Juv 783 B741h
Ode to Newfoundland (2003) by Geoff Butler - Juv 782.42 B976o
Temps de Glace: L'Histoire de Glace (2006) by Michael McKinley - Juv 796.9 L5778t
Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (2002) by Matt Napier - Juv 796.9 N162z
800s: Literature
Flippin' in ; & Then and Now (1991) by Anne Chislett. 1999 - Juv 812 C4448f
In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem (1995) by John McCrae & Linda Granfield -Juv 811 G765
The Spirit of Canada (2001) by Barbara Hehner - Juv 808.8 Sp485
900-919: Geography
Alberta: Where the Mountains Meet the Plains (1970)by Doreen Margaret Tomkins - Juv 917.123 T595a
The Atlantic Provinces: Tidewater Lands (1970) by Doreen Margaret Tomkins - Juv 917.15 T595a
The Big Book of Canada - Exploring the Provinces and Territories (2002) by Christopher Moore - Juv 917.1 M7817b
British Columbia: Mountain Wonderland (1970) by Doreen Margaret Tomkins - Juv 917.11 T595b
Canada (1967) by Charles Lineaweaver - Juv 917.1 L645
Canada (1964) by Dorothy F. Wood - Juv 917.1 W85
Canada from A to Z (1999)by Bobbie Kalman - Juv 917.1 K126cf
Canada, Its Land and People (1995) by Donald Massey - Juv 917.1 M385c
Canada, the Culture (1993)by Bobbie Kalman - Juv 917.1 .K127cc
Canada: The Land and its People (1975) by Doreen Margaret Tomkins - Juv 917.1 C16
Canada, the People (1993) by Bobbie Kalman - Juv 917.1 .K127cp
Canada: The Story of Ontario (1966) by Robert Turnbull - Juv 917.13 T849
Canada: The Story of Newfoundland (1966) by Robert Turnbull - Juv 917.18 T849
Canada: The Story of Quebec (1966) by Richard Daignault - Juv 917.14 D14
Canadian Childhoods: A Tundra Anthology in Words and Art (1989) - Juv. 917.1 C163c
How People Live in Canada (1965) by Lyn Harrington - Juv 917.1 H238h
The Land and People of Canada (1964) by Frances Aileen Ross - Juv 917.1 R733L
Let's Visit Canada (1964) by John C. Caldwell - Juv 917.1 C127
Manitoba: Where East Meets West (1970) by Doreen Margaret Tomkins - Juv 917.127 T595m
Northern Ontario: Land of Buried Treasure (1970) by Doreen Margaret Tomkins - Juv 917.13 T595n
Quebec: French-Canadian Homeland (1970) by Doreen Margaret Tomkins - Juv 917.14 T595q
Quebec Je T'Aime = Quebec I Love You (1976) by Miyuki Tanobe.1976 - Juv 917.41 T158q
The Salt-Water Men: Canada's Deep-Sea Sailors (1957) by Joseph Schull - Juv 910.4 Sch81
Saskatchewan: Land of Far Horizons (1970) by Doreen Margaret Tomkins - Juv 917.124 T595s
That's Very Canadian!: An Exceptionally Interesting Report about All things Canadian (2004) by Rachel Vivian Bowers - Juv 917.1 B677t
This is Canada: History and Growth (1965) by Sally Lindsay - Juv 917.1 L644
Wow, Canada!: Exploring This Land from Coast to Coast (1999) by Vivien Bowers - Juv 917.1 B6772w
92: Biography
Adam Beck (1978) by James Laverne Sturgis - Juv 92 B388s
Alexander Graham Bell: An Inventive Life (1999) by Elizabeth MacLeod - Juv 92 B413ma
The Amazing Adventures of Captain Bob Bartlett (2002) by Susan Chalker Browne - Juv 92 B284b
Bobbie Rosenfeld- The Olympian Who Could Do Everything (2004) by Anne Dublin - Juv 92 R7245d
The Bold Heart: The Story of Father Lacombe (1956) by Josephine Phelan - Juv 92 L119p
Breaking Free: The Story of William Kurelek (2002) by May Ebbitt Cutler - Juv 92 K965c
Donald Smith and the Canadian Pacific Railway (1978) Keith Wilson - Juv 92 St814w
Elizabeth Simcoe, First Lady of Upper Canada (1974) by John Bassett - Juv 92 Si43b
The First Canadian: The Story of Champlain (1961)by Cicero Ritchie - Juv 92 C358r
Gabriel Dumont, Jerry Potts: Canadian Plainsmen (1982) by Sandra McKee & Harold Fryer - Juv 92 D897m
Hart Massey (1977) by Paul Collins - Juv 92 M385c
Henry Pellatt (1978) by David Flint - Juv 92 P363f
John Beverly Robinson and the War of 1812 (1984) by Florence Burns - Juv 92 R5631b
John Fisher: "Mr. Canada" (1983) by Bill McNeil - Juv 92 F534m
Letitia Hargrave and Life in the Fur Trade (1981) by Barbara Angel - Juv 92 H2235a
Louis Riel and the New Nation (1980) by Colin Davies - Juv 92 R444d
The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone: The Story of Tom Longboat (2002) by Jack Batten - Juv 92 L856b
Nellie McClung (1975) by Mary Lile Benham - Juv 92 M132b
Norman Bethune (1974) by Roderick Stewart - Juv 92 B4652s
Runner of the Woods: The Story of Young Radisson (1963) by Cicero Ritchie - Juv 92 R119r
The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr (2007) by Nicolas Debon - Juv 92 C993d
The True North: The Story of Captain Joseph Bernier (1957) by T. C. Fairley - Juv 92 B457f
Wilfrid Laurier (1978)by Marting Spigelman - Juv 92 L375s
970-999: History
17 Minutes to Live (1973)by Richard A. Boning - Juv 971.6 B641s
The Acadians (1981)by Barry Moody - Juv 971.01 M771a
The Beothuk of Newfoundland: A Vanished People (1989) by Ingeborg Marshall - Juv 971.8 M3565b
The Black Canadians: Their History and Contributions (1989)by Velma Carter - Juv 971 C2468b
By the Light of the Qulliq: Eskimo Life in the Canadian Arctic (1979) by Wendy Jordan - Juv 970.4 J767b
Canada: Builders of the Nation (1980)by Ian Hundey - Juv 971 H8923c
Canada, Growth of a Nation (1980)by Stan Garrod - Juv 971 G194c
The Canadian Story (1958)by May McNeer - Juv 971 M233
Cartier Discovers the St. Lawrence (1970)by William Toye - Juv 971 T668
Children of the Gold Rush (1999) by Claire Rudolf Murphy - Juv 971.9 M952c
Confederation: A New Nationality (1981)by Michael Bliss - Juv 971 B6195c
Cuthbert Grant and the Metis (1976) by D. Bruce Sealey - Juv 971.27 Se15
Evangeline and the Acadians (1957)by Robert Tallant - Juv 971.6 T144
Famous Canadian Stories (1953)by George E.Tait - Juv 971 F211
The Flower Beadwork People (1991)by Sherry Racette Juv 971.27 R1145f
Fur Trade in Canada (1980) Keith Wilson - Juv 971 W6943f
George Simpson and the Hudson's Bay Company (1977) by Keith Wilson - Juv 971.2 W6944g
The Great Golden Plain: A History of the Prairie Provinces (1962) by Donalda Dickie - Juv 971.2 D56
The Grey Nuns and the Red River Settlement (1980)by Dennis King - Juv 971.2 K581g
Heartland: A Prairie Sampler (2005) by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet - Juv 971.2 B2265h
Houses of Bark: Tipi, Wigwam and Longhouse: Native Dwellings (1990) byBonnie Shemie - Juv 970.4 Sh444hb
How Canada Got Its Capital (1975) by Nadja Corkum - Juv 971.3 C813h
The Hudson's Bay Company (1970)by George Woodcock - Juv 971 W853h
The Japanese Canadians (1978)by Roy Ito - Juv 971 It6
Journey of Exploration (1986) by Stan Garrod -Juv 971 G194j
The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (1990)edited by James H. Marsh - Juv. 971 J8695m
The Kids Book of Canada (1997) by Barbara Greenwood - Juv 971.1 .G856k
Lake of Gold (1941)by John Buchan - Juv 971 B851
Legendes Indiennes du Canada (1967)by Claude Melancon - Juv 970.1 M48
Life in New France (1980) byEric Skeoch - Juv 971 Sk265L
A Look at Canada (2002)by Helen Frost - Juv 971 F9291L
The Mennonite People (1978) by Charlotte Sloan Cooper - Juv 971.2 C784m
Les Micmacs (1968)by Robert Leavitt - Juv 970.4 L489
The Micmac: How Their ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago (1983)by Ruth Whitehead - Juv 970.4 W587m
New Beginnings: A Social History of Canada (1981)by James H. Marsh - Juv 971 M353n
The North (1980)by Stan Garrod - Juv 971.9 G194n
The Nor'westers: The Fight for the Fur Trade (1954) by Marjorie Wilkins Campbell - Juv 971.2 C153
O Canada! (1964)by Isabel Barclay - Juv 971 B235
Ontario (1975)by Lyn Harrington - Juv 971.3 H238o
Opening the Canadian West (1980) by David Bercuson - Juv 971.2 B451o
Our Country, Canada (2001)By Mary Cairo & Luci Soncin - Juv 971 C1915ou
People of the Buffalo: How the Plains Indians Lived (1983) by Maria Campbell - Juv 970.4 C153p
People of the Ice: How the Inuit Lived (1980) by Heather Smith Siska - Juv 970.004 Si827pi
People of the Longhouse: How the Iroquoian Tribes Lived (1982)by Jillian Redington - Juv 970.3 R4368p
People of the Trail: How the Northern Forest Indians Lived (1978)by Robin Redington - Juv 970.4 R437p
A Picture History of Canada (1956)by Clarke Hutton - Juv 971 H979
A Prairie Boy's Summer (1975) by William Kurelek - Juv 971.2 K965p
Quebec: Historic City (1966)by Rodolphe Vincent -Juv 971.4471 V743
The Real Book about Canada (1959)by Lyn Harrington - Juv 971 H238r
Rebellions in Canada (1979)by Desmond Morton - Juv 971 M846r
Riel's People: How the Metis Lived (1978)by Maria Campbell - Juv 970.4 C153r
The Savage River: Seventy-One Days with Simon Frase (1968) byMarjorie Wilkins Campbell - Juv 971.1 C153
Settling the Canadian West (1984) by David Bercuson - Juv 971.2 B451s
The St. Lawrence, Seaway of North America (1961)by Anne Terry White Juv 971.4 W582
The Story of Comock the Eskimo (1968) by Comock -Juv 970.4 C737
The Story of Prince Edward Island (1963)by Phyllis Ruth Blakeley - Juv 971.7 B581
They Sought a New World: the Story of European Immigration (1985)by William Kurelek - Juv 971 K965
The Ukrainian Canadians (1978) by Marguerite V. Burke - Juv 971.27 B917u
Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the Arctic (1977)by Alexander Gregor - Juv 971.9 G861v
Viking Discovery: L'Anse aux Meadows (1985) by Joan Horwood - Juv 971.8 H7895
West Coast Chinese Boy (1979) by Sing Lim - Juv 971.1 L6284w

Jackdaws

**alphabetic by title

1837: Mackenzie - Kit 971.03 C858
The Battle of Queenston Heights: A Collection of Documents and Records - Kit 971.03 B322
Building the CPR - Kit 385 St94 C4
Canada and the Civil War - Kit 973.7 Ar57 C17
Canada and the Great War - Kit 940.4 H889
Canada Votes 1791-1891 - Kit 324.971 H836 C3
Cartier of St. Malo - Kit 92 C248h C11
Dieppe 1942 - Kit 940.53 St94
The Fenians - Kit 971.04 C858
The Fur Trade - Kit 338.3 C153f C5
Gold in the Cariboo - Kit 622 C692
Indians of Canada - Kit 970.4 R631i C16
Laurier - Kit 92 L375b C19
Leacock Centennial - Kit 92 L469f C24
The Maritimes' Age of Sail - Kit 387.2 Sp41 C20
The North-West Passage - Kit 910 H836 C15
Push to the Pacific - Kit 971.2 C153p
Quebec Independence - Kit 320.971 Q3 no.2
The RCMP - Kit 363.2 St32
Riel - Kit 971.05 R444
Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony: Quebec 1775-6 - Kit 971.02 N316
The War of 1812 - Kit 973.5 H836 C25
The Winnipeg General Strike - Kit 331.89 K537 C29

Additional Resources

Canada: Exploring New Directions 4th Ed.(1999) by Leonard Swatridge - TextB 971 F578c
Canada - Study & Teaching -Resource File has materials
A Guide to Canadian Children's Books (2003) - RLMCRef Z 1378 B35 2003

Canadian American Center

The center has curriculum resources and information on professional development for K-12 educators.
http://www.umaine.edu/canam/teachingcanada.htm
Contact the Teacher Resource Library by phone (207-581-4225) or by e-mail: barntzen@umit.maine.edu

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