Across the James Bay Bridge
By: Julie Lawson ; [map illustration, Sharon Matthews ; interior illustrations, Janet Wilson].
Contributors: Wilson, Janet, 1952- ill.
Series: Our Canadian girl.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
Subjects: Immigrants -- Fiction.; Chinese -- Victoria (B.C.) -- Fiction.; City and town life -- Victoria (B.C.) -- Fiction.; Victoria (B.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.; Victoria (B.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.; Canada -- History -- 1867-1914 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In Victoria, British Columbia, in 1896, ten-year-old Emily travels to the city's Chinatown to help her family's servant, Hing, after he has been wrongly accused of breaking an expensive vase, and, once there, learns about the lives and culture of Chinese immigrants.
Notes: "Ages 8-12"--Cover p. [4].