Author: William DunlopPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Canada Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada
Author: William DunlopPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Canada Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Backwoods of Canada
Author: Catherine Parr Strickland TraillPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886293062
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired army officer. The Backwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine1s epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately following her arrival in North America, is an important record of nineteenth-century pioneering and a rich personal memoir of a woman. It has become a foundation work of Canadian Iiterature.
Early Life in Upper Canada
Author: Edwin C. GuilletPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487598033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1019
Book Description
Although there were abundant hardships, early life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful in many ways. However, despite important contributions to the social and economic history of Canada, few good, comprehensive accounts have been generally available. Early Life in Upper Canada, originally published in 1933, is by far the finest history yet compiled, and it is now being reprinted in order to make available to a new generation an important and engrossing description of this area of Canadian history. The author, a distinguished Canadian historian, has drawn on contemporary letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals, as well as consulting all the existing histories, and he has supplemented these researches with interviews with persons who had personal contacts with early life in the Province. Mr. Guillet has compiled a thorough, accurate and delightfully readable history, that brings vividly to life the early settlers and their experiences. This is in accordance with the author's profound desire to make the study of Canadian history a delight rather than a chore. He has not concealed the unpleasant aspects of pioneer life, nor does he attempt to glamorize its difficulties. There is a tendency at times to forget that the founders of Upper Canada include hundreds of thousands of men and women of many nationalities, and fur traders, lumbermen, and voyageurs, as well as settlers. Their contributions, too, are acknowledged and recorded here. This book is profusely illustrated, with drawings made, in many cases, by army cartographers, who were skilled creative artists as well. Their paintings, fortunately, have been better preserved than were written accounts of the times, and are accurate depictions of pioneer life. The extensive bibliography and carefully prepared index will make this work invaluable for historians as well as for general readers.
Authentic Letters from Upper Canada
Author: Thomas William MagrathPublisher: Dublin : W. Curry, Jun.
ISBN:
Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal & Gazette
Author: Iron
Author: Perry Fairfax NurseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Valley of the Lower Thames 1640 to 1850
Author: Fred Coyne HamilPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487589697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Few are the regions in the province of Ontario so rich and rewarding to the reader interested in local history as the valley of the Lower Thames. As the author tells us with warmth and enthusiasm of the early settlers, roads, bridges, inns, and mills of his native region, his story takes on a wider significance. Here, indeed, is the story of pioneer Canada, "writ small." The valley of the Lower Thames includes the greater part of what is now the county of Kent, and comprises one of the richest and most populous agricultural areas of modern Ontario. For many years it remained separated from the upper river settlements by miles of primeval forest. The Thames River was the highroad for commerce and travel that bound the people on both its banks into one community, and connected them with other communities far beyond. Professor Hamil has embellished what is commonly known of such striking pioneer figures as Thomas Talbot, the Ainse family, and others, with additional fascinating details, and brings before us many figures less well known to history but whose careers arouse admiration, sympathy, curiosity, and amusement.
History of the Book in Canada: Beginnings to 1840
Author: History of the Book in Canada ProjectPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802089434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Impressive in its scope and depth of scholarship, this first volume of the History of the Book in Canada is a landmark in the chronicle of writing, publishing, bookselling, and reading in Canada.
Narrative and Critical History of America: The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. 1889
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America: The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. [c1889
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description