Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. General Editor’s Note xi
4. Introduction to the Carleton Library Series Edition xiii
5. Author’s Preface (To book presently entitled Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter–suggested new title: Dragons In The Sky.) xxxi
6. Chapter Numbers and Titles for book presently entitled Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter–new title xxxiii
7. Author’s Foreword xxxix
8. The First Horizon 3
9. I Discover My Birthplace 11
10. Introducing Job’s Cycle 19
11. Humours of the Last Frontier 26
12. Treasured Portrait 33
13. I Meet the August Ancestors 36
14. Introduction to Exile 50
15. Exile 61
16. First Taste of the New World 70
17. Subjective Interlude 75
18. God’s Fields 77
19. Those Child Transgressions 82
20. Tales Strange and Varied 92
21. Vignettes of a Private World 108
22. Selkirk Interlude 122
23. False Security 135
24. The American Scene Opens 143
25. New Friends of Novel Fortune 147
26. The Scene Brightens 157
27. Fresh Misfortune 165
28. Solitary Christmas 174
29. The World Enlarges 177
30. Meeting Destiny 192
31. New Worlds to Conquer 199
32. Adolescent Conditioning 212
33. Tales Out of Time 226
34. I Discover Drama 233
35. Darker Reason 241
36. Again Green Pastures 247
37. Magic Moonlight 253
38. Deep Interval 258
39. Forced Decision 262
40. The North Once More 265
41. Trials of a Job Hunter 271
42. Readjustment and the Righteous Few 274
43. A Kitchen-View of Society 279
44. The Working World 288
45. And So Farewell 297
46. Back to the Canadian Scene 300
47. My Prairie Argosy 305
48. The Face of Virtue 312
49. I Settle in My Own Country 316
50. Homestead and Boarding-House 322
51. Birth of an Author 334
52. So Dreams Come True 349