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"Mountains, prairies, seaside...Wartime, one hundred and fifty years ago, half a century ago...The ten stories in this new Dear Canada Christmas anthology take us all across our land, from remote homesteads to internment camps, from towns destroyed to a city bursting with pride. Set in landscapes of snowflakes and snow angels, wilderness and cozy homes, these stories feature Christmas traditions both familiar and new."
Dear Canada editor, Introduction

A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas is a short story collection in the Dear Canada series. The book consists of ten stories featuring heroines from previous Dear Canada books, except These Are My Words which was released a year later. It was published in September 2015.

Similar to A Season for Miracles and A Christmas to Remember, each story follows a previous Dear Canada heroine during the Christmas season.

Book description[]

"Ten heartwarming stories of Christmas past
Rosie gives a surprising gift to someone who least expects it...Johanna is able to make Christmas dinner a feast to remember...Abby takes a past sadness and turns it into something new and special...Christmas truly is a time for giving.

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Find new friends and reconnect with old ones in these delightful stories by some of Canada's best writers."

Plot[]

"The Angel of Citadel Hill"[]

By Sarah Ellis; Featuring Dorothy Wilton from That Fatal Night

"The Real Blessings"[]

By Jean Little; Featuring Abby Roberts from All Fall Down

"Dear Sachi"[]

By Susan Aihoshi; Featuring Mary Kobayashi from Torn Apart

"A Candle for Christmas"[]

By Karleen Bradford; Featuring Rosie Dunn from A Country of Our Own

"The Rescuers"[]

By Jean Little; Featuring Jane Browning from Exiles from the War

"The Light and the Dark"[]

By Carol Matas; Featuring Rose Rabinowitz from Pieces of the Past

"Winter with Grandma"[]

By Ruby Slipperjack; Featuring Violet Pesheens from These Are My Words

"Raffle Mania"[]

By Janet McNaughton; Featuring Triffie Winsor from Flame and Ashes

"Snowflakes for Christmas"[]

By Barbara Haworth-Attard; Featuring Noreen Robertson from To Stand On My Own

"A Proper Christmas Feast"[]

By Norah McClintock; Featuring Johanna Leary from A Sea of Sorrows

Editions[]

Notes[]

  • The cover image is a stock photo licensed from KPG-Payless at Shutterstock.[3]
  • Norman Lanting did the interior illustrations. Excepting Jane Browning's portrait, the illustrations were all based on the character's portraits on their respective covers.
  • The book features a story about Violet Pesheens a full year before These Are My Words was published.

References[]

See also[]


Dear Canada

Orphan at My Door | A Prairie as Wide as the Sea | With Nothing But Our Courage | Footsteps in the Snow
A Ribbon of Shining Steel | Whispers of War | Alone in an Untamed Land | Brothers Far from Home | An Ocean Apart
A Trail of Broken Dreams | Banished from Our Home | Winter of Peril | Turned Away | The Death of My Country
No Safe Harbour | A Rebel's Daughter | A Season for Miracles | If I Die Before I Wake | Not a Nickel to Spare
Prisoners in the Promised Land | Days of Toil and Tears | Where the River Takes Me | Blood Upon Our Land
A Desperate Road to Freedom | A Christmas to Remember | Exiles from the War | To Stand On My Own
Hoping for Home | That Fatal Night | Torn Apart | A Sea of Sorrows | Pieces of the Past | A Country of Our Own
All Fall Down | Flame and Ashes | A Time for Giving | These Are My Words


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