With Faith and Joy in the Land of the Giant Maple Leaf

About the Book

In 1966, Alice Mucklehausen moved with her family to a small town where she found herself the “new girl” in her seventh grade class and, as an American, experienced the coupled hospitality and hostility greeting those from south of the border – the Canadian border, that is. Half a century later, prodded by an insistent Memory, Alice reviews those poignant and often comedic days of adolescent despair and immigrant angst and reconsiders her role in the relationships and events that transpired.

About the Author

Like Alice, American Celia Crotteau periodically attended Canadian schools, and it is upon her experiences that she has based this work. She remains in contact with several former classmates from Canada and still remembers the words to both “Oh Canada” and “God Save the Queen,” which she sings to her English classes if the opportunity arises.