Author: Samuel StricklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Twenty-seven Years in Canada West
Author: Samuel StricklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Twenty Seven Years in Canada West; Or the Experience of an Early Settler. Edited by A. Strickland
Author: Samuel StricklandCatharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide
Author: Nathalie CookePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773549315
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with maple sauce, and dandelion coffee – this was an ordinary backwoods meal in Victorian-era Canada. Originally published in 1855, Catharine Parr Traill’s classic The Female Emigrant’s Guide, with its admirable recipes, candid advice, and astute observations about local food sourcing, offers an intimate glimpse into the daily domestic and seasonal routines of settler life. This toolkit for historical cookery, redesigned and annotated in an edition for use in contemporary kitchens, provides readers with the resources to actively use and experiment with recipes from the original Guide. Containing modernized recipes, a measurement conversion chart, and an extensive glossary, this volume also includes discussions of cooking conventions, terms, techniques, and ingredients that contextualize the social attitudes, expectations, and challenges of Traill’s world and the emigrant experience. In a distinctive and witty voice expressing her can-do attitude, Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide unlocks a wealth of information on historical foodways and culinary exploration.
Roughing it in the Bush Or Life in Canada
Author: Susanna MoodiePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0886290430
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to terms with their new environment.
Giving Canada a Literary History
Author: Sandra DjwaPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773573763
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Carl Klinck's autobiography is combined with a history of the development of Canadian literature as a
Backwoods of Canada
Author: Catharine Parr TraillPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773574034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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.
In Mixed Company
Author: Julia RobertsPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds � Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white � negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle comfortable certainties about who belonged where in colonial society. Colonial taverns were places where labourers enjoyed libations with wealthy Aboriginal traders like Captain Thomas, who also treated a Scotsman to a small bowl of punch; where white soldiers rubbed shoulders with black colonists out to celebrate Emancipation Day; where English ladies and their small children sought refuge for a night. The records of the past tell stories of time spent in mixed company but also of the myriad, unequal ways that colonists found room in taverns and a place in Upper Canadian culture and society. Reconstructed from tavern-keepers' accounts, court records, diaries, travelogues, and letters, In Mixed Company is essential reading for tavern aficionados and anyone interested in the history of gender, race, and culture in Canadian or colonial society.
A Respectable Ditch
Author: James T. AngusPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773561331
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Canada's leaders were key participants. Governor-generals, from Sir Guy Carleton, who ordered the first survey, to Lord Syndenham, who cancelled construction in 1841, were intimately involved in the project. For nearly a century every prime minister, from Francis Hincks, who tried to sell the decaying locks and dams, through John A. Macdonald, who revived the scheme, to Robert Borden, who finally completed it, was caught up in this most persistent public project. But the most important participants were countless little-known Canadians who, for one reason or another, promoted the scheme and doggedly pushed it to a conclusion. This is their story.
History of Agriculture in Ontario 1613-1880
Author: Robert Leslie JonesPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not only to agriculturalists and historians but also to anyone interested in life in early Ontario.
Collections and Objections
Author: Michelle A. HamiltonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773537546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A nuanced study of conflicts over possession of Aboriginal artifacts.