This is a great book! 
I just read "Mrs. Mike" by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. It's a true story about a teenaged girl who is sent to the dry climate of her Uncles Calgary home to help her recover from pluerisy. She marries an RCMP officer, and they move to a rugged settlement in the far northern Canada.
Here is a review, and a link to the page I got it from with more about the book.
Mrs. Mike is the story, set in the beginning of the twentieth century, of Katherine Mary O'Fallon, a sixteen-year-old girl from Boston, who is sent to her uncle in Calgary, Alberta, because she suffers from pleurisy. Soon, she falls in love with Mike Flannigan, a tall and handsome man from the Mounted Police, marries him and follows him North, into the great wilderness. The trip, first by train and then as part of a dog-sled caravan, is almost too much for Katherine and her lungs. But as she decides to follow Mike no matter what, she also begins a relationship of love and hate with a pitiless and beautiful country...
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