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Maplelea ~ Canadian Dolls for Canadian Girls #Giveaway {arv $99.99}

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What better day than CANADA DAY to introduce you to one of my FAVORITE products that boasts Canadian Pride?!?

Let me introduce you to:

Maplelea Girls ~ Canadian Dolls for Canadian Girls!

We had a new little girl arrive at our door the other day. Our oldest daughter is thrilled. Taryn, one of the Canadian Maplelea girls has a new home and new best friend.

What makes a young girl growing up in Canada, well, Canadian? Six-to-12-year-olds from Halifax to Winnipeg to Whitehorse now have a collection of beautifully detailed dolls to inspire national pride while learning the wonders of their country. Known as the Canada’s Maplelea (may-pull-lee) Girls, the first six dolls of the series are ready to educate youngsters about Canada’s culture, heritage and geography.

Meet huggable and lovable Jenna, Taryn, Brianne, Léonie (lay-oh-nee), Saila (sigh-lah) and Alexi, 10-year-olds who hail from across the country. Each doll stands 46 cm (about 18″) tall and has a soft body with arms and legs that can be posed. Their eyes open and close and their hair is a delight to comb and style.  Each doll retails for $99.99.

Imagine having a social studies lesson by playing with dolls. That’s the concept behind the collection. All of the Maplelea Girls arrive with a distinctive 64-page journal illustrated with doodles, photos and writings done by the doll character to tell about her life and the part of Canada she calls home. Canadian girls will discover fascinating locales within their own country.

Taryn is an outdoor lover who loves to learn about the environment and wants to explore Mother Nature.  She loves hiking and has lots of accessories that help her including a pack back and hiking boots.  She describes herself as “an environmentalist at heart” and says the three things she couldn’t survive without are her hiking boots, clean fresh mountain air and butterflies. Seeing that my daughter also has a passion for the outdoors and the environment these two seem like a perfect match.

Like all Maplelea girls, Taryn has a positive attitude towards family, friends, self and life in general.  This makes her a great role model for young girls and can help them along the way as they search for themselves knowing there is a strong girl peer they can look up too.  These dolls are full of personality and make a great partner to my daughter. 

Maplelea’s commitment to quality and value are always evident in all their products and Taryn is no exception to that rule.  All her accessories are quality made and just like all Maplelea dolls, they come in an attractive sturdy box that can be used as storage for the doll when not in use.

Taryn comes ready for the outdoors with a striped turtleneck, her khaki skirt with buckle closure, funky striped tights and her oh-so-comfortable hiking boots. Her long brown hair is held back with a tiny leaf hair clip.  She is ready to play with right out of the box and since she has arrived in our home, there are been few moments where she not been at the kitchen table, along for car rides or even in bed with my daughter.

Get the little girls in your life a new friend and someone she can look up to that is mommy approved. (This is a great gift idea for a Christmas gift!)

Taryn is the second Maplelea girl that has joined our family. Don’t worry, Saila has not been left behind. My daughter says that Saila and Taryn are great friends and they always tell each other cool things about the places they each are from.

My daughter wants to save her money to get each of the Maplelea Girls. She says it is sad that they can not all be together…

I am so thrilled that Maplelea has offered to giveaway one of the Maplelea Girls to a lucky reader! This is one of my favorite giveaways as I know this gift will be treasured by a special child for many years to come!

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1 Maplelea Girl Doll (Canada only)

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  2. I was so impressed that the dolls face was actually sculpted from a real little girl in Aurora Ontario Canada! Love!
    <3

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  6. The doll’s face was modeled after a girl from Aurora, Ontario. My daughter has Jenna and loves her! She got her for her birthday from her Grandma and has wanted a second one to play with ever since. Great giveaway!

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  7. The company started with Anne of Green Gables and then sold all that to focus on these dolls. Must be worth it!

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  10. this is a fantastic doll and would love to win it for granddaughter Eeve thanks for the chance

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  13. I learned that the company was founded in 1988 and was originally intended to make products based upon the Anne of Green Gables character & then in 2003 after a decade of research they began making the Maplelea girls. (My granddaughter would LOVE one of these beautiful dolls!)

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  15. I learned that began developing products based on Canada’s ever-popular storybook character, Anne of Green Gables.

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  18. I learned that Alexi lives in Cabbagetown in downtown Toronto. She wants to be a famous inventor!

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  24. I learned that one of the doll’s names is Jenna, the same as my granddaughter, whom I’d love to win this for. She would treasure it. Thanks for the opportunity.

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  25. Alexi is from Cabbagetown,down town Toronto.She wants to design things that will make life easier for people with different abilities!!

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  27. I love that the dolls are all unique with certain personalties/traits and most of all that they represent different regions of Canada through those traits.

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  28. The products were developed based on Anne of Green Gables…and they can go to the spa if they require some “care”

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  31. Nearly a hundred initial design concepts were fabricated prior to finalizing the outfit collection for Maplelea

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  32. Avonlea Traditions is a Canadian owned and operated company founded in 1988. Avonlea began developing products based on Canada’s ever-popular storybook character, Anne of Green Gables

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  34. I really love these dolls I always look at the American dolls and wondered why we didn’t have any in Canada. I like they are from different provinces and have their own personality traits!

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    • Lisa Marie, Saila has been such a wonderful addition to our home. With my hubby doing work in the North sometimes (exactly in the same town where they have a factory that makes the clothes for Saila) it has made a special bond between the doll and my daughter. Also, because my husbands family is Cree, it is nice to have a doll with the darker skin tones! We LOVE Maplelea!

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  36. The doll from Nunavut has a “Pang” hat, made by the very same lady that made my BFF’s adult sized one.

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  37. Am very happy that we now have Canadian dolls that represent our provinces and nationalities. Always looked at the American dolls and wondered why we didn’t have one in Canada. Glad that Avonlea is a canadian based and operated company.

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  38. I like Maplelea Girls Doll Line Teaches Daughters the Wonders of Canada!

    ksceviour at hotmail dot com

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  47. I like that the dolls are Canadian, showing the different aspects of our wonderful country!
    The only thing I don’t really like is that there is not a brown hair/blue eyed girl 🙁

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  49. I learned that the Maplelea Girls each have their own story journals and accessories expressing Canada’s distinctiveness.

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  51. I learned that the newest girl is Saila from Nunavut. She loves to eat grandmas bannock with jam. There is not a lot of dolls out there like this, i think they are great!

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  52. I learned that Avonlea Traditions Inc. started out by basing their products on Anne of Green Gables – I love Anne!!

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  53. July 4–These dolls are designed to represent Canadian Girls from Coast to Coast and are suitable for girls from 6 to 12.-el03ro

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  54. I love that each girl is from a different part of Canada and that they all have their own story and hobbies that they enjoy. I love the variety of clothes and accessories that they each have.

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  55. I love that Saila enjoys pizza and her grandmother’s bannock! We live on an island where some of the inhabitants are Ojibwe. I love that Maplelea has dollsl that represents girls of many cultures.

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  60. I learned that Avonlea Traditions is a Canadian owned and operated company founded in 1988, and that they are a reflection of canadian girls from coast to coast!
    dalleykt at live dot ca

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  66. Perfect size doll for smocking a matching dress for to the one I am making for a six year old.
    Both will be pretty as a picture.

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  67. I love that these dolls represent real Canadian girls and that they each have their own unique personalities. Any girl of any age would love to own one of tese originals.

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  74. They began developing products based on Canada’s ever-popular storybook character, Anne of Green Gables.

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  77. I love that the Maplelea dolls are Canadian! That seems to be rare now. I also love that they seem to inspire young girls. My daughter would absolutely love one of these dolls!

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  81. I was unfamiliar with the maplelea dolls until visiting the website I think it is a great Canadian inspired product.. Its great for Canadian girls to relate and learn history from their own country.

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  85. This doll and the idea behind it is fantastic! How great that each doll is from a different place in Canada that we can learn about. My doll loving daughter would adore one of these dolls!

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    • Ooops! Forgot to mention what I learned at the give away sponsor’s site! I learned that the same company also made/makes RCMP dolls.

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  90. My 11-year old daughter is an avid collector of those other dolls, you know, the American ones…I love that there is a Canadian option for her. Better yet – she plays with a fiddle group so I adore the fact that one of the dolls, Jenna, loves the fiddle too!

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  92. I learned that the dolls have a great guarantee and if one of the dolls gets damaged you can send it to the Spa for repairs. Such a cute concept.

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  98. I like the way girls can learn about Canada while playing with their dolls. Each of the dolls have such lovely names and unique stories. I loved reading about Saila. Their costumes are gorgeous!!! Oh, and I like the fact that they are all decently dressed and look like real girls – no half-clothed, unnatural curves. 🙂

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  103. Taryn, Brianne, Alexi, Léonie, Jenna and Saila are all very different—they like different hobbies, sports, school subjects, foods, colours and even have a different personal fashion style! However, they are some things that they have in common—they are all bright, caring, energergetic Canadian Girls who think Canada is one terrific country.

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  108. Avonlea Traditions is a Canadian owned and operated company founded in 1988.  Avonlea began developing products based on Canada’s ever-popular storybook character, Anne of Green Gables™…

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  109. I was not aware that they also made Anne of Green Gables Dolls. I read all the Anne books and more than once I might add. A truly Canadian Co. 🙂

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  110. I learned that they’ve sold all their other companies except Maplelea to concentrate on bringing this popular doll to children ages 6-12. Even sold Avonlea which made Anne of Green Gables memorabelia. I’m glad it’s a Canadian company. i really like Taryn, it almost rhymes with my granddaughter’s name Aeryn

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  112. Maplelea Girls: Across the Boarders:
    Maplelea Girls: Across the Region:
    And
    Moxie Girlz: Model Citizen: Art-itude:
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    Whitby, Ontario, Canada:
    Reviews: Prove Read: A. George Dave Prince:
    Maplelea: Regional Provincial Girls: Boarders: within:

    (1). Leonnie:
    Ottawa: Parliament House of Commons: Harbour Front Ocean Sea:
    Quebec City: Montreal: Laurentian: near the old Quebec Village: She visits her Cousin: Galileelia:
    (2). Jenna:
    Nova Scotia: Lunenburg:
    Neighbourily Beside: Atlantic Ocean:
    (3). Alex:
    Cabbage Town:
    Toronto: River Dale Campus:

    (4). Brianne:
    Manitoba: Ukrainians Festible:
    In Dauphin Memorial Park:
    (5) Taryn:
    Great outdoors; Ranger Park:
    Banff Alberta:
    Canadian Rocky Mountains:

    The Interest of Music:

    Interested in Music’s the Girls were invited to Conservatory Composition Musical Competition.
    According to plans judges set directive Reservation’s for the children in
    British Colombia; Vancouver: Contemporary Hall.

    The Audience and their Parent Watches In the stadium:
    Traveling Long Distance: and setting Reservation: usually they are on their own, or
    Accompanied by Educator’s and employers:
    Hotels:
    Motels:
    Villa’s:

    Railway Train Cabins Lodge:
    Camping: Hut, Tents, Forest/ Park Cabin Lodges, Cottages:
    Dormitory Campus’s:
    Buses: Comfortable Passengers Seats:
    Plane: Passenger seat
    Taxi:
    Subway Railway: Passenger Carrior Seat:
    Transit Railway: Passenger Carrior Seat:
    Reservation spends, three day while playing Classic Orcatra symphonies.
    All musicians attended with their parents sign with permission slip
    while supervised. Children student and guess were given attendance and specialized seats.
    Elude Study of Music: Teacher, Student and friends are welcome.

    2. Brianne A Farm Child: Manitoba

    Brianne Mother owns a clothing Store. Brianne and her Parents live on the farm.
    Her Father planted a Plantation Harvest Field. He drove shipping and receiving produce truck early in the morning toward Grocery store, Plazas and Mall near the Conservatory of Music. This is his last stop of the day.
    The Shipper Product Receiver is the collector that takes produce off the truck and into the store.
    First in, first out, products in order: The older product is set first on the top, newer products on the lower section last on the bottom.
    Mangers evaluate the check lists with eighter acceptance or rejection: in case of Breakage, Leakage, wrong items needs to be sent back to the company.
    The Produce Truck Deliver could also take back unrecognized items back on the truck that may belong to another store, read the casing box sticker carefully.
    Re-order: Company could not deliver item. Minis the Product could be out of Stock could be on the next delivery Service. The Company has no choice but to wait however it is a necessary item is there. A costumer may want to buy idem to their dismay.

    The Produce: Truck Deliver and Shipper Product Receivers are Producers who share the work duty, surveillance by the mangers. All items must be accounted for or the missing item must be signed for file records.
    Brianne came with her father while traveling. The end of the shift the manger invited Brianne and her father to conservatory national concert hall. Brianne Father and the manger are good friends. Brianne is given an Invitation to listen to the children with talent and those who are natural Performers who could play the piano.
    Audiences gather to listen to Composition Instrumental interpretation of Musical Artiest,
    Musician Composer Creators, Lyrical Composers Song Writers, Note Notationist writers, Solo / Harmony/ Melody/Choir lyrical Singers, Instrumentation rhythmic Band Musicians, and Instrumentation Orcatra symphonist.
    Musician Players, plays the Instrumentation: timed key notes; beats and rhythm. Notationist is Innovative Note writers, Singers are site readers: they must sing before the judges while they listen to their song and tone, depths tune mistakes may lower their points and grade. Listening to how well they play. Judges Listening to the Sound soul of Solo, melody and harmony of music. That is shared by turn selections or on their own. Judge discusses and rates the winner. Musician must play with grace from beginners to Expertise.
    Plaza, Mall, Stores next door across the Street Brianne gets distracted by the Ballerina Bellay
    of Dance. Father opens the concert hall doors, letting in her daughter in saying” after you”.
    He also notices his daughter expression but he does not dwell too much while entering the doors.
    Listen to the sound vibration wave tone of beat, rhythm and depth Chant hymns tones, Pre-Recording Musical Musicians, Historic Composition Artist’s performs before the Newest Writer Composers does (The Next Generation).
    (The term of Gospel Hymns is spiritual Praise music.) (Classic symphony compositions: Lyrical Opera symphony is performed by the Orcatra Instrumentation Musicians). Depth Chant Hymn/ hum tones is similar to backwards sublimely messages. Repetition: hums forward.

    Singers are eighter: Soloist, Harmonist, Melody or Mass Choir those whom sing Lyrical sing music.
    Leonie, Jenna, and Alex listen to every child with different skills.
    Starters or expert who practiced prepare do their best while Jenna turn to perform.

    Leonie: Composition: from: Godamess:
    Jenna: Composition from: Minuet
    Alex: Composition from Banners: Stars and Stripe:

    According: Record Recorder Artist: Composers or Singers: Creating: C.D’s: Soul of Music
    Artist must be a Musician: Notationist, Lyrical, and Instrumentationist Innovational Composers:
    Sorry Writing Lyrical is not enough. Coppell is vocal, atom apple vertebrae box music without Instrumentation Dispels Volume Vibration Music:

    Leonie, Jenna, and Alex: Met Brianne after they were finished their turn.
    While her dad talked with the parents and teachers, The Mangers wife was also a teacher.
    She searches for Brianne and the rest of the children after the concert. Back stage she met Leonie, Jenna, and Alex.
    It Time for Brianne to return home with her Dad.

    Leonie, Jenna, and Alex waves goodbye not worried, they will see each other again:
    Returning to Manitoba Brianne Dad drove home. He saw how his little daughter was depressed. . He saw how her daughter looking through the window wanting to be a Ballerina dancer. He father register her daughter for her first Ballerina Practice Session in their location area near them. He let his daughter try out. Brianne invited her friends to her first audition. This how the Maplelea Girls first met: Across the Region:

    Ranger Park:
    (5) Taryn:
    Banff Albert: Canadian Rocky Mountains:
    Great Outdoors Ranger Park:

    (1). Leonnie: lives in Ottawa: Parliament House of Commons: near The Harbour Front Ocean Sea docks:
    Quebec City: Montreal, Saint Laurentian; near the old Quebec Village Historic Suspension Bridge where her Cousin Lives. Leonnie visits her cousin Galileelia who lives in Quebec City: Montreal.
    Leonnie is quite a painter; she travels with her cousin sightseeing: Exploration:
    Quebec Hutton Bay: Canadian Region India Originals Natives live near the mountains.
    Taryn Banff Albert: Canadian Rocky Mountains: Mounties Forest Ranger: Equiptive Van’s pulls behind their cottage.
    Taryn Parents runs an equiptive check. The weather is perfectly warm for hiking.
    They set of foot through the forest of a long trail with Equiptive camping gear,
    Rescue aid supply tool kit, food ration supply, and Canteen of Water.
    The High above Mountain Ridge Cliff’s with smooth barrior surface.
    Equiptive Harness Rope and encores a peg. Lonnie spotted a little girl climbing straight up the ridge cliff searching for pot holes, peg ridges. Leonnie paints a green army suit child climbing the mountains then Taryn she disappears.
    She was probably too high to see. The graze meadow fields next where the rivers flows out wards Lonnie sited the mountains in front of her.
    The Bird fluttered over head the trees she paints a Cadis outline landscape, she copies shape of the landscape region. The landscape field Dances. The Air Breese pushes and pulls the grass thistle in the wind.
    Lonnie daydreams spotted a girl on the hills tops waving her hands saying “hello”. “Could this have been a dream?
    In her Painting she drew a little girl hiking up the mountain, Lonnie while listening to quiet nature, the river flowed,
    She is wearing hiking boots, green military coat, and military green pants and she is equiptive ready.
    The Painter wakes and saw the exact Replica of the Explorer in the portrait, she painted who greeted her also enjoyed her painting.
    Her Parent’s not so worry about Taryn she knew how to find her way back to the cabin.
    Taryn Mother is the Park Perseveration Park wild Ranger:
    Where her Mother is, her partner is never too far behind. Taryn Father is a Humane Society: Zoologist: Wild/Domestic Pet Doctor:
    Taryn and Leonie, Partnership, Explore the Hutton Bay Mountains of Quebec and the forest.
    Taryn knew her away around the area. Leonie knew she was safe but both shall meet once again skiing.

    The Ski Resort:
    The Little Ladies are taught in School until curriculum studies were over.
    Season has passed, summer and Special Occasions begins.
    Reservation plans area is planned ahead before Vacancy is closed: Ski Resort.
    Next Door from each other Hotel dorm to dorm the Maplelea Girls will meet
    once again but this time all of them become best friends.
    Leonie introduces Taryn their newest member.
    They became acquainted with each other.
    Children Slides down the slopes having enjoyment fun.
    Leonie and her friends love the hill slide ski slopes
    Maplelea Girls is invited to crossing the border and see how the other lives, Provincial Region of Canada.
    Companions live their separate lives as individuals, however became friends across Provincial Boarders:
    Within Canada: They were in Coincided Union ship.
    Visiting while on travel: Every Summer, Special Occasion, they will meet once again:
    In friendship:

    Maplelea Girls: Saila:
    (1). Leonnie:
    Ottawa: Parliament House of Commons: Harbour Front Ocean Sea:
    Quebec City: Montreal: Laurentian: near the old Quebec Village: She visits her Cousin: Galilee:
    (2). Jenna:
    Nova Scotia: Lunenburg:
    Neighbourily Beside: Atlantic Ocean:
    (3). Alex:
    Cabbage Town:
    Toronto: River Dale Campus:

    (4). Brianne:
    Manitoba: Ukrainians Festible:
    In Dauphin Memorial Park:
    (5) Taryn:
    Great outdoors Ranger Park:
    Banff Albert:
    Canadian Rocky Mountains:

    (6). Saila:
    Iqaluit: Inuit Ninuvik Island: Eastern North:
    Saila: is proud of her Inuit Heritage she specks: Gamtiiq Grammar: Inuktitut and English:
    Her family like all season Camping: Ice fishing, and hut Igloo. When winter is gone they travel by boat.
    Saila loves (Amauti): Warm Hooded Jackets and (Kamiik): warm Boots,
    Saila has two sister: Amati, Kamik:
    Saila family piles in the Yamotiiq Sleigh pull by his snow mobile:
    Grandmother’s Favorite Food: Bannock Bun and Crow Berry Jam:

    Saila is the new member who rescued Jenna from a blizzard cold: Mountain Climbing.
    Taryn Prepare them for many months to be rock climbers. They search for the hidden peg ledges and a support Belt in case they fall. Traveled to the airport they visited the Eastern North: ward towards the Iqaluit: Ninuvik Island.
    Maplelea Girl’s were suppost to dress warmly. The Problem Jenna wore a worn down warm winter jacket that could handle autumn fall winds but not the winter cold. The zipper got stuck while climbing the breezy hills. Jenna began to feel the air chill wind pass through the jacket, shivering shekel cold. The other girls noticed her quivering. All of them reached the top however the resort was miles from the location area where they are now. Jenna was freezing cold.
    Saila Dress in white winter coat, with Ivory winter snow shoes, plus a winter scarf. Saila hiking is already on top of the mountain. When she spotted The Maplelea Girls who needed her help. Maplelea Girls were not sure if she spoke English gave hand expression sign hoping that Saila understands what they were talk about. Saila could not help but smile and laugh not knowing she is well versed in the English national language and Inuktitut: she offered to help them.
    They had to get Jenna out of the cold before Jenna get Hypothermia. Saila caring a back pack put an extra winter warm jacket on Jenna to warm her up. They return to her house that was not too far away follow the trail path. Saila has an Inuit snow dog that met them at the front gate. Delighted to see them jumping to his feet they wagged his tail, Patting him on the head. Saila calms the over excited dog telling the girls his name is Nanuq: that means Polar Bear, he is her Anunt pet. For days Jenna had a fever, Saila put Jenna to bed, while ordering a new winter jacket for her? The Girls waited patiently when the fever broke.
    Jenna woke: she met Amati, Kamik, and Saila they became friends and their newest member The Maplelea Girls drank Hot chocolate: Jenna however needed to drink soup, non solids until she got better.
    Plank of Snow on the driveway and the environment land scape. Saila Dad pile the Maplelea Girls on the Yamtiiq: Sleigh while pulling them on his snow mobile while on tour. They get to see the Inuit: Ninuvik Region:
    Maplelea Girls:
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