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    Where Pines And Maples Grow
    Where Pines And Maples Grow
    Where Pines And Maples Grow
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    Where Pines And Maples Grow

    By Sarah Butland, Bonnie Rose, CG Mann and

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    This collection in celebration of Canada150 was written by eight authors:

    Bonnie Rose: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bugsy27
    C.G. Mann: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/cgmann
    Nancy Larsen: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/nangralar62
    Carolyn MacIsaac: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Macicar
    Heather MacKenzie: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/globalgoddess
    Ray Burns: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/LukeWarm
    Donna Belanger: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/rollerdonna
    Sarah Butland: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/sarahbutland

    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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      Book preview

      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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