Published in 1940,Whiteoak Heritage chronicles the fortunes of the Whiteoak family after the Second World War. The drama continues at Jalna when Renny returns home to find his one-time love still unforgiving and his brother still involved with an older woman. This is book 5 of 16 inThe Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Whiteoak Brothers.

In 1927, Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto when she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine Atlantic Monthly for her novelJalna. The book became a bestseller and was adapted for stage, screen and television.