The House of Armour

"The House of Armour" by Marshall Saunders is a story that begins in the late 1800s with a young woman named Vivienne Delavigne who is coming home to Nova Scotia after living in another country. As she sails into Halifax harbor, she’s excited to return to the place of her childhood. Captain Macartney notices her enthusiastic love for her homeland and expresses his own curiosity about her past. Vivienne's journey is about finding her place in a world complicated by her past experiences and her relationship with the Armour family, who are now her guardians. The story highlights Vivienne's inner quest for identity, her feelings about her cultural inheritance, and the social environment of that time. It focuses on how she deals with difficult feelings and complicated relationships.