Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold by Jessica Outram

It's the summer of 1914. Eight-year-old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. One day Bernice wakes up to find a stranger named Tom Thomson sleeping in their living room. When she overhears him talk about gold on a nearby island, Bernice is determined to find it. Inspired by her beloved Mmr's stories of their Mtis family's adventures and hardships, Bernice takes the treasure map the stranger left behind and sets out in a rowboat with nothing more than her two dogs for company and the dream of changing her family's fortunes forever. (From Second Story Press)

Jessica Outram is a Mtis poet, writer, playwright, artist, singer and educator with roots in the Georgian Bay Mtis Community. She is the author of the poetry anthology The Thing with Feathers.