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The Woolen Mill

The Woolen Mill

Research is a really interesting (and time-consuming) part of writing historical fiction. This woolen mill at Upper Canada Village came from Odessa, a town not far from Forest Mills, where Finding Home takes place. Woolen mills were one place where both men and women...

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The Legacy of a Home Child

Because Sarah, the protagonist in our novel, Finding Home, comes to Canada in 1870 with Annie Macpherson and the early Home Children, I’m always on the look out for stories about these young immigrants. In the library I found: Mary Janeway – The Legacy of a Home Child...

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