Canadian West · Book 4
When Hope Springs New
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN-13
- 9780764225352
- Type
- novel

About this book
At 288 pages, When Hope Springs New was published in 1986, the fourth book in Canadian West and the close of the original mid-1980s run before Janette Oke returned to the family's story more than a decade later.
Its place in Canadian West
When Hope Springs New is book 4 in the Canadian West series. It follows When Breaks the Dawn. It is followed by Beyond the Gathering Storm. See the full Canadian West reading order.
Canadian West follows Elizabeth Thatcher, a well-to-do young schoolteacher from the East who takes a post in a rough Canadian frontier settlement and falls for Wynn Delaney, a North-West Mounted Police officer stationed there. The first four books, published in the mid-1980s, cover their courtship, marriage, and early life together as Elizabeth adjusts from Eastern comfort to frontier hardship; Oke returned to the series more than a decade later with two further volumes carrying the couple, and eventually their…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780764225352