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Nothing in her cultured East Coast upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. Yet, despite the constant hardships, she loves the children in her care.

Just before the French were expelled from Nova Scotia early in the 18th century, two women, one French, one English, became as sisters.

Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s.

Escaping his life in 1820s Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat.

In Acadia two young mothers, one British and one French, have become good friends, despite the enmity between their peoples. The French woman's baby girl becomes critically ill.