Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold. Shining Waters. Book 1. Music & Dance Most women profiled are from

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is a window into Nora’s life and her family—from the young girl who “used to sing all the time” and was always bossing her brothers around to stories of Nora’s father born on a canoe travelling to the mainland to days spent picking berries and afternoons canning and cooking

Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold. Shining Waters. Book 1. Music & Dance Most women profiled are from2024 Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Jessica Outram is a citizen of the Mtis Nation of Ontario. It's the summer of 1914. Eight year old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. One day Bernice wakes up to find a stranger named Tom Thomson sleeping in their living room. When she overhears him talk about gold on a nearby island, Bernice is determined to find it. Inspired by her beloved