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• Cedar Creek, From the Shanty to the Settlement: A Tale of Canadian Life (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1863), by Elizabeth H. Walshe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sergeant Silk, the Prairie Scout (London: Jarrolds, n.d.), by Robert Leighton (Gutenberg text)
• The Buffalo Runners: a Tale of the Red River Plains (London: J. Nisbet, 1890s), by R. M. Ballantyne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of the Red River Plains, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Grateful Indian, and Other Stories, by William Henry Giles Kingston, contrib. by Miss Corner and Frances M. Wilbraham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wrecked But Not Ruined, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Stephen Grattan's Faith, by Margaret M. Robertson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The making of a man, by W. D. Flatt, illust. by J. R. Seavey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Two on the Trail: A Story of Canada Snows, by E. E. Cowper, illust. by Walter Paget (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith by Land and Sea, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg ebook)

• To the West, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Walter Jenks Morgan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Red Pirogue: A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian Wilds, by Theodore Goodridge Roberts, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg ebook)

• At the fall of Montreal; or, A soldier boy's final victory, by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by A. B. Shute (Gutenberg ebook)
• Patrice, ou les pionniers de l'Amérique du nord (in French), by H. de Chavannes de la Giraudière (Gutenberg ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Among the Forest Trees, or, How the Bushman Family Got Their Homes: Being a Book of Facts and Incidents of Pioneer Life in Upper Canada, Arranged in the Form of a Story (1888), by Joseph Henry Hilts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Canadian Settler's Guide (London: E. Stanford, 1860), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping (Toronto: Maclear, 1854), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Men of the Last Frontier (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1932), by Grey Owl (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Life and Times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie: With an Account of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837, and the Subsequent Frontier Disturbances, Chiefly From Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; Toronto: P.R. Randall, 1862), by Charles Lindsey
  • Volume I: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Frontiers and the fur trade (John Day company, 1929), by Sydney Greenbie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The winning of the frontier (The United Church Publishing House, 1930), by E. H. Oliver and United Church of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• How the bushman family got their homes. ([s.n.], 1888), by Joseph H. Hilts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backwoodswoman, a chronicle of pioneer home life in Upper and Lower Canada (The Ryerson press, 1924), by Mrs. Isabel Skelton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In the days of the Red River rebellion. Life and adventure in the far west of Canada (1868-1872) (William Briggs, 1911), by John McDougall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The backwoods of Canada: being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America. (Charles Knight & co., 1846), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Roosevelt's adversary (Roxburgh, 1912), by James Fullerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backwoods' life. (Printed by Hunter, Rose & Co., 1869), by W. F. Munro (page images at HathiTrust)
• The settlers in Canada : written for young people (Appleton, 1845), by Frederick Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from Canada, with numerous illustrations. (F. Alger, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth mountaineer, scout, pioneer, and chief of the Crow nation of Indians : written from his own dictation (T. Unwin, 1892), by T. D. Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from settlers in Canada official and other information for intending settlers in Manitoba, the North-West Territories, British Columbia and other provinces of Canada. (McCorquodale, 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The backwoods of Canada (Strahan, 1879), by Cunningham Geikie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the extraordinary sufferings of Mr. Robert Forbes, his wife and five children during an unfortunate journey through the wilderness, from Canada to Kennebec River, in the year 1784, in which three of their children were starved to death (Printed at Thomas Baker Wait's Office, 1791), by Robert Forbes and Arthur Bradman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the woods a boy's narrative of the adventures of a settler's family in Canada (Crosby and Ainsworth;, 1865), by Cunningham Geikie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleaner tales (Gleaner Bookroom, 1918), by Robert Sellar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forest life in Canada (Bell & Cockburn, 1913), by Susanna Moodie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Horace canadianizing, early pioneer life in Canada recalled by the sayings of the Latin poet Horace being the Log shanty book-shelf pamphlet for 1894 (s.n.], 1894), by Henry Scadding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langton records, journals and letters from Canada, 1837-1846... Printed for private circulation only. (R. & R. Clark, 1904), by Anne Langton and Ellen Josephine Philips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The settlers in Canada (Frederick Warne, 1886), by Frederick Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opuscules. (Impr. A. Coté, et cie, 1876), by H. R. Casgrain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horace canadianizing, early pioneer life in Canada recalled by the sayings of the Latin poet Horace being the Log shanty book-shelf pamphlet for 1894 (s.n.], 1894), by Henry Scadding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making good in Canada (A. and C. Black, 1912), by Frederick A. Talbot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Backwoods of Canada (Charles Knight & Co., 1846), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill and C. G. Nicolay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buck Choquette, stampeder. ([Washington?, 1960), by Henry W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of Canada : stories from the history of her discovery, exploration, conquest, & settlement. (H. Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton, 1911), by Herbert Strang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters from Muskoka, by Charles Gerrard King (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pioneers in Canada, by Harry Johnston, illust. by E. Wallcousins (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Lone Hand (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1928), by Harold Bindloss (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Northern lights (Copp, Clark, 1909), by Gilbert Parker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The curious career of Roderick Campbell (Houghton, Mifflin, 1901), by Jean N. McIlwraith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mating in the Wilds, by Ottwell Binns (Gutenberg ebook)

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