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. Mrs. Harrington takes an active interest in the work of the Canadian Library Association and has been president of the Canadian Women's Press Club, Toronto Branch.
With her photographer-husband, she travels part of each year, collecting material and pictures for magazine articles and books. Together, they produced Greece and the Greeks and, more recently, China and the Chinese as a result of their visits to these countries. The Luck of the La Verendryes is Mrs. Harrington's seventh book for young people.
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