The Luck of the La Verendryes

"Lyn Harrington received a grant from the Canadian Centennial Commission for writing this story of the first of the North American explorers to be born on this continent. Research for the book led Mrs. Harrington over the La Verendryes' trail-by canoe on the Ottawa and French Rivers, Lake Superior and the border waters leading to Lake of the Woods, by car through Wyoming, and by barge down the waterways of the Saskatchewan delta.

An interest in writing for young people grew out of the author's professional background, for after her graduation from the Collegiate Institute of Sault Sainte Marie and the Library School of the University of Toronto, she was children's librarian in the Soo and later in a boys' club in Toronto."

-from exodusbooks.com