Alone in an untamed land

Maxine Trottier First published 2003

About this book

In 1666, thirteen-year-old Hélène chronicles her journey from France to Montréal, New France, and her life in the new country as a "fille à marier" or marriageable girl.

Subjects

  • canada, fiction
  • diaries
  • diaries, fiction
  • fiction
  • frontier and pioneer life
  • frontier and pioneer life, fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • marriage customs and rites
  • montreal (quebec), fiction