Onge is thirteen years old and orphaned following the death of her father the previous winter. This has an interestingly weird subplot, though, but we’ll get to that in due time. The young women who were selected had no families or were too impoverished to be picky, they traveled a long way, and something like 99% of them got married to voyageurs, merchants, or soldiers, and had huge families. Onge, Montreal, New France, 1666, Maxine Trottier, 2003.Īlso as I mentioned last week, the basic plots of this is pretty similar to The King’s Daughter, probably because there are only so many places you can go with this idea. (Almost ten!) It’s so good that I recommend it to adult readers looking for an intro to the filles du roi story (as we discussed last week, there’s a severe dearth of adult historical fiction on the topic).Īlone in an Untamed Land: The Filles du Roi Diary of Hélène St. This book is one of the first Dear Canada books I read, and it still stands up after all these years.
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