Doris Provencher Faucher, her husband, and infant son sailed across the North Atlantic through two weeks of mid-December storms in 1957, as they returned home to southern Maine following their year-long stay in France. She later learned that her first Canadian ancestor had traveled two months on board a much smaller wooden sailing vessel on his way to Canada in 1657, and had arrived when the northeastern region of North America was covered by a dense primitive forest during the last Little Ice Age.

Doris holds a Master's degree in Education, and has spent much of her retirement conducting genealogical and historical research of the early French presence in North America. The author taught courses in French-Canadian/Franco-American Heritage at her local Senior College. She launched her Québécois series of historical novels with THE VIRGIN FOREST in 2000, its sequel THE RAPIDS two years later, IMPERIAL CONFLICT in 2006, and her fourth and final book in the series, IMPERIAL CONQUEST in 2009.

The series is a portrayal of early French-Canadian life experiences and events from the evolution of the French ethnic presence in North America to the French Cession of Canada to Great Britain.