Title: Dear Canada
Subtitle: Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt
First published: 2002
Description: When war breaks out between the United States and Great Britain in 1812, eleven-year-old Susanna chronicles her experiences when her father and brother go off to fight leaving the women to fend for themselves on the family farm on the Niagara Peninsula of Upper Canada.
Subjects: Diaries, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Juvenile fiction, United States War of 1812
Places: Canada, Niagara Peninsula (Ont.), Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, United States
Time periods: 1791-1841, 19th century, War of 1812
LC classification: PZ7.P32314 Wh 2002