- "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.
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