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THE DESERTER

Imagine you’re in a swaying hammock on a British man-o’war around 1800, riding out a harsh spring storm in a deserted estuary of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Behind those high red cliffs lie a hundred miles of uncharted wilderness, populated only by indigenous peoples. If you jump ship and are caught, you will be branded a deserter — subject to death by one thousand lashes. What can you bring to help you survive? Within minutes, the ice-strewn waters could freeze your body and claim your soul. If this were your one chance for a life in the New World, would you jump?

Thomas Manning did, and his leap into uncertainty begins the epic tale of a pioneer family, one of the many who built our great nation. Through his and his descendants’ eyes, we watch one small community’s impact on the great events which swirl about them and bring conflicts they must face in their struggles to create homes and families.

Absorbing, touching and full of adventure, THE DESERTER is Book One of the Alford Saga, a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of a settler’s family.

ISBN 978-1-55278-977-3

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THE SURVIVOR

Thomas Manning, branded a deserter from the British Navy, is forced to change his name to James Alford to avoid the death penalty. Determined to forge a new life on the Gaspé Peninsula, he struggles to survive the harsh landscape and win the hand of Catherine Garrett.

After working in harsh sub-zero woods, he saves the life of an orphan working in a sawmill, and so gains crucial lumber to build a homestead out of intractable wilderness. But first he must battle murderous brigands to rescue a starving bull calf he hopes will be the first of the oxen he so desperately needs to clear his land. Finally, heroically surviving Canada’s worst famine, he faces down implacable bureaucracies to keep the farm he has been fighting to bring under cultivation.

A captivating and fast-paced adventure, THE SURVIVOR is Book Two of the Alford Saga, a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of one settler’s family.

ISBN 978-1-55278-967-4

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THE PIONEER

The riveting Alford Saga continues with James Alford, the Deserter, battling old age and ferocious winters, but even more crippling, the departure of his son and only heir, young Jim, who sets out on snowshoes for Montreal, seven hundred miles away from their home in Shigawake.

Arriving at last in Montreal, Jim is driven by starvation into a back-breaking job constructing the Victoria Bridge. He finds lodgings with an Irish widow in Griffintown, and falls in love. But after a stinging deception, he rejects the bitter realities of urban life and returns to the Old Homestead and its community of pioneers. His ageing father recruits him to rally recalcitrant neighbours to found a school for their children and a church for their worship in Shigawake.

Enthralling and adventurous, THE PIONEER is Book Three in the Alford Saga, a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of a settler’s family.

ISBN 978-1-77087-123-6

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THE PILGRIM

THE PILGRIM, the fourth book in Paul Almond’s thrilling Alford Saga, opens in 1896. After graduating from Bishop’s University, young rector Jack Alford is sent to his first parish — the implacable granite shores of the Canadian Labrador on the vast St. Lawrence River. Hazards imperil his life as he travels this harsh 450-mile coastline in summer and winter, by boat and dogsled, to visit communities in his far-flung parish.

Jack’s zeal for the welfare of Labrador’s hardy parishioners diverts him from his blossoming romance. Through summer storms that menace his tiny mission boat and fierce blizzards that almost annihilate his dog team, Jack brings succor to stranded families, care and leadership to villages perched on the windy granite, and inspired teaching in hill-top churches that stand as beacons of hope among the seal-fishers and rugged pioneers of Labrador.

ISBN 978-1-77087-163-2

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