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1881: Can your whole life change in a single day?
A Day of Signs and Wonders
What you need to know before your trail
Emily dreams of birds. She feels constrained by nearly everything—her overbearing sisters, the expectation to be a proper young lady, and even her stiff white pinafore.
Kitty feels undone. Her heart is still grieving a tragic loss, and she doesn’t want to be sent away to a boarding school so far away from home.
When the two girls meet by chance, on a beach on the outskirts of Victoria, BC, in 1881, neither knows that their one day together will change their lives forever.
Locations
Reset- Canada - BC - Victoria
- A: Emily Carr House
- B: Emily Carr library
- C: Emily Carr Dr Victoria, BC, Canada
Travel Guide
This book is based on actual facts from Emily Carr’s life.
Carr and her sister were sent to stay with the Cranes family when their mother became ill. The O’Reilly family did live next to the Cranes and Emily and Kitty were both actual people)
What must Kitty have felt like at the time? What was Emily Carr like as a child and how did she make the best of her poor situation?
Emily Carr was one of Canada’s foremost West-Coast artists and she became extremely well known for her vibrant paintings of indigenous villages in British Columbia (as well as for her eccentricity).
Streetview Maps
A) Canada - BC - Vic - Emily Carr house
C) A) Canada - BC - Vic - Emily Carr Drive
Booktrail Boarding Pass: A Day of Signs and Wonders
Destination : Victoria Author/Guide: Kit Pearson Departure Time:1881
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