Elinor Florence's Blog

My new book with the working title Touching Grass is no more than a twinkle in my eye, but I'm researching another Western historical adventure. Can you guess the theme by looking at this image?

Shopping for thrifted treasures is my favourite form of relaxation. Here are ten great finds that I enjoy every day, including this striped Hudson Bay trading blanket. Welcome to Letters From Windermere, where I write about: HISTORY: mostly Western Canada history, but I love it all. WRITING: info about Finding Flora, my new historical homesteading novel. […]

We hit the prairie backroads in my truck in July and loved every minute, admiring the big skies and meeting readers along the way.

While chatting with hundreds of readers in the past few weeks, I heard several Frequently Asked Questions, or FAQ, about my historical novel, Finding Flora. I will do my best to answer them here.

My friends, I am back home taking a break after my whirlwind book tour, in which Finding Flora reached Number One Bestseller in Canadian Fiction for the entire country! Check out some of these wonderful book tour photos.

My mother's hat collection gave me the idea to host a Fancy Hat Contest at the launch of my new historical novel, Finding Flora.

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What homesteaders ate depended on what they could buy and bring with them, plus what they could harvest and kill. Some of the less fortunate were forced to give up their homesteads or starve to death.

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To kick off a happy new year of reading, I created this Reading Roundup to showcase every book I have recommended over the past eleven years.

Visiting the rebuilt Church of Our Lady in Dresden, Germany, was one of the most inspirational experiences of my life.

Four generations of my Indigenous roots are buried at St. Andrews-on-the-Red Anglican Church in this small community near Winnipeg, Manitoba. My brother Rob Florence and I visited their graves recently, paying homage to our joint Scottish-Cree heritage.