On the Plains of Heaven - Kennedy, William H.
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Madeleine Oakes, a Red River Colony Métis mother of four grown children, is astonished late one September day in 1869 when a woman she envisions as the Virgin Mary strides into her home and demands a cup of tea. Her astonishment quickly turns to disbelief when the true identity of her visitor is revealed. Suffering the woman's scathing defamation, Madeleine flees her home in turmoil. The retribution she exacts will have consequences beyond anything either of them could have imagined. Madeleine's vision is Elizabeth Fraser, a young woman from Toronto's genteel society who has come west with the…mehr

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Madeleine Oakes, a Red River Colony Métis mother of four grown children, is astonished late one September day in 1869 when a woman she envisions as the Virgin Mary strides into her home and demands a cup of tea. Her astonishment quickly turns to disbelief when the true identity of her visitor is revealed. Suffering the woman's scathing defamation, Madeleine flees her home in turmoil. The retribution she exacts will have consequences beyond anything either of them could have imagined. Madeleine's vision is Elizabeth Fraser, a young woman from Toronto's genteel society who has come west with the homestead's irascible patriarch, Murdoch McGillivray, under unexpected and inexplicable circumstances. Surviving the prairie winter that nearly takes her life, she will serve what she deems her "wild west" purgatory in the flat and endless landscape that is about to become the province of Manitoba and a magnet for the influx of settlers from Ontario. Elizabeth's arrival coincides with the Hudson's Bay Company sale to Canada of its 1.5 million-square-mile Prince Rupert's Land fur-trade empire. When Canadian government surveyors arrive unannounced in the environs of Winnipeg and its adjacent HBC post of Fort Garry to begin their work on land where Métis families have lived for generations, they unknowingly light the fuse that will lead to armed resistance by a people determined to defend their rights.
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Autorenporträt
W. H. Kennedy was born in Montreal, lived in Germany with his air force father during his teenage years, and began his working life with the Ontario government in Toronto. From there, he moved on to a two-year stint reporting for a weekly newspaper. In his mid-twenties he embarked on a 27,000 km solo trip around North America behind the wheel of a nine-year-old pea-green Volkswagen Beetle that, fittingly, refused to start the day after his arrival back home. On his return from that memorable adventure, he began work in an engineering-related field that became his career.Kennedy has travelled extensively throughout Canada and has had a lifelong interest in its history. His children know this firsthand, having visited, sometimes grudgingly, innumerable historic sites from Charlottetown to Victoria to Yukon's Dawson City during summer camping trips. Canada is a work in progress and its history the foundation on which it rests. If it is to stand the test of time, Kennedy maintains, it is imperative we learn that history and cultivate in our children an interest in their heritage. Previous publications by Kennedy are "At the Call of King and Country," a book about the World War I contributions made by the men and women of Hastings County, Ontario, and "Putting the Outside Inside Kids." Based on a canoe trip he took with his daughter when she was five years old, the book explores the value of nature and the great outdoors in the lives of children.