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Where Pines And Maples Grow
Where Pines And Maples Grow
Where Pines And Maples Grow
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This collection in celebration of Canada150 was written by eight authors:

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LanguageEnglish
PublisherSarah Butland
Release dateOct 27, 2017
ISBN9780993786457
Where Pines And Maples Grow
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Sarah Butland

Sarah Butland was born in Ontario, the year was 1982. She was moved to New Brunswick for over 15 years and now resides at home in Nova Scotia, Canada. Butland has been married to her high school sweetheart and has a superstar son named William. Besides home schooling and working part time, Sarah finds time to follow her dream of being an author and teaching others that they can do the same. Butland started creating while still learning to walk and in years to follow was able to put a writing utensil to paper to document her creations before they were completely lost. Of course, her first manuscripts were in dire need of editing but she didn't seem to mind nor did her readers. The first "big break" for Butland came when she was still a teenager feeling like she was unlike every other teenager she knew. She heard from a poetry contest that her poem "Wrong Shell" would be published in their anthology; would she kindly send them thousands of dollars to continue on in the finals. Butland's parents refused. So began the struggle of discovering which awards were actually earned not bought. Limiting herself to contest submissions from then on, Sarah Butland realized her career of writing would be a difficult struggle no matter the talent she held inside or was forced out. Many stories, attempts at novels and thousands of ideas later, Butland created BananaBoy and the Adventures of Sammy was born with Sending You Sammy, her first published children's book. Then came Brain Tales – Volume One, a collection of short stories Arm Farm, her current literary pride and joy and Blood Day - the Short Story and the Novella. Butland's next accomplishment planned to be winning the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award which would then be mentioned among her most joyous literary accomplishments. Unfortunately she didn't win the 2011 award but is now working on new and greater things. Thanks for reading, Sarah Butland

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    Where Pines And Maples Grow - Sarah Butland

    Smashwords Edition

    All characters and situations in these stories are fictional, and any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

    Text 2017 © by The Write Intentions

    Cover by Ashton Creative Design

    http://www.ashtoncreativedesign.com/

    All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book

    or portions thereof in any form.

    Second Edition

    ISBN: 978-0-9937864-5-7

    Published by:

    Write Intentions

    PO Box 25100

    Moncton, New Brunswick

    E1C 9M9

    Canada

    With special thanks to Creative Pictou County for their efforts in making this possible.

    http://creativepictoucounty.ca/

    Original English Lyrics to O Canada

    by Robert Stanley Weir, 1908

    O Canada! Our home and native land!

    True patriot love thou dost in us command.

    We see thee rising fair, dear land,

    The True North, strong and free;

    And stand on guard, O Canada,

    We stand on guard for thee.

    Refrain

    O Canada! O Canada!

    O Canada! We stand on guard for thee.

    O Canada! We stand on guard for thee.

    O Canada! Where pines and maples grow,

    Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow,

    How dear to us thy broad domain,

    From East to Western Sea;

    Thou land of hope for all who toil!

    Thou True North, strong and free!

    (Refrain)

    O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies

    May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise,

    To keep thee steadfast through the years,

    From East to Western Sea.

    Our own beloved native land,

    Our True North, strong and free!

    (Refrain)

    Ruler Supreme, Who hearest humble prayer,

    Hold our dominion within Thy loving care.

    Help us to find, O God, in Thee,

    A lasting, rich reward,

    As waiting for the Better Day

    We ever stand on guard.

    (Refrain)

    This book of stories is dedicated to our country, Canada,

    in commemoration of her 150th year.

    Each of us, as proud Canadians, are honoured

    to be citizens of this vast, free country,

    this land we call home.

    Contents

    The Maple Leaf

    A British Home Child Story

    Homecoming

    Sticky Sweet Souls

    The Day She Became A Widow

    The Letters

    Punch The Midget

    Maple Magic

    The Maple Leaf

    by Donna Belanger

    It was the sixteenth of September, 1773, when Angus McD yawned and stretched and slowly opened his eyes. When he looked around, he remembered he was outdoors, sleeping rough his family called it, until they could build themselves a new home. Yesterday, Angus and his family had arrived in a place called Pictou, Nova Scotia, but it wasn't a town or even a village yet. When they had arrived from Scotland on board the Ship Hector, the only thing they could see was trees. Lots and lots of trees. They were surrounded by forest, so they had spent their first night outdoors, sleeping under the trees, wrapped in their warm woolen plaids.

    As Angus awoke he looked up and was confused. The sky was red. Bright, sunny red. Then he realized that it was not the sky, but the leaves of the tree he was sleeping under. But why was this tree red? He had never seen a red tree before, a tree with leaves so beautiful and bright.

    Angus unwrapped himself from his plaid and jumped up. He started to climb the tree so that he could touch the bright red leaves.

    Angus! shouted his mam. Get down from there!

    Angus' mam was always stopping him from having fun. She had tried to stop him from climbing the rigging on the ship during their journey over the sea, but if Angus hadn't climbed the rigging, he couldn't have warned the captain that there was a storm ahead, and they might have all been lost at sea.

    Angus was confident that he could climb the tree and he kept climbing. He didn't have to go up far before he reached a branch of shiny red leaves.

    Look Mam! he shouted down. Look what I found!

    It's just a leaf Angus, sighed his mam, now come down here and help me with your baby brother.

    But Mam, said Angus excitedly, "it's

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