Download or read book Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal Recollections and Reminiscences of a Sexagenarian written by Canniff Haight and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago written by Canniff Haight and published by Hunter, Rose. This book was released on 1885 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Catalogue of Books written by Willet Ricketson Haight and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Canadian Catalogue of Books written by Willet Ricketson Haight and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annual Canadian Catalogue of Books written by Willet Ricketson Haight and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Wye Smith written by William Wye Smith and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wye Smith, Upper Canadian poet and publisher, provided his unique perspective on pioneer life in this compilation of anecdotes from his experiences.
Download or read book James Kennedy W A Smith A F Johnson written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature written by Samuel Halkett and published by Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.. This book was released on 1926 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature written by Samuel Halkett and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warriors and Warships written by Robert D. Banks and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Point Frederick, where early nineteenth-century Canadians built warships that stopped invasion and brought peace. Warriors and Warships brings to life a much neglected part of Canada’s military history, covering the warships and the people who built them at Point Frederick from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. Opposite Kingston, Point Frederick was the 1789 dockyard home of the Provincial Marine on Lake Ontario and the headquarters of Britain’s Royal Navy from 1813 to 1853. Today, it is the home of the Royal Military College of Canada. In this detailed narrative, with over one hundred colour archival maps, aerial views, photographs, and 3D reconstructions, Banks recounts Point Frederick’s building of great sail and steam warships and the roles these vessels played in conflict on Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and Niagara. Among the conflicts is the War of 1812, when French Canadian and British shipwrights made warships that forced the U.S. Navy into port and led to the American withdrawal from Canada. Banks also covers the role of the ships in the settlement of Upper Canada, the rebellion of 1837, the early planning of the Rideau Canal, and the beginning of the undefended border. Along the way, Banks introduces an array of people from Upper Canada, such as Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe and his wife, Elizabeth Posthuma; Governor General Lord Dorchester; General Isaac Brock; Sir James Yeo, and even Charles Dickens. He also describes the day-to-day activities at Point Frederick, beyond shipbuilding and military campaigns, such as skating parties, sleigh rides, theatricals, disease and death, and crime and punishment. Banks shares the moments of hardship, triumph, and tragedy of both the warriors and the warships in this important contribution to Canadian history.
Download or read book Catalogue of Canadian Publications written by Carswell Company and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Being Neighbours written by Catharine Anne Wilson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change. Being Neighbours takes us into the heart of neighbourhood – the set of people near and surrounding the family – through an examination of work bees in southern Ontario from 1830 to 1960. The bee was a special event where people gathered to work on a neighbour’s farm like bees in a hive for a wide variety of purposes, including barn raising, logging, threshing, quilting, turkey plucking, and apple paring. Drawing on the diaries of over one hundred men and women, Catharine Wilson takes readers into families’ daily lives, the intricacies of their labour exchange, and their workways, feasts, and hospitality. Through the prism of the bee and a close reading of the diaries, she uncovers the subtle social politics of mutual dependency, the expectations neighbours had of each other, and their ways of managing conflict and crisis. This book adds to the literature on cooperative work that focuses on evaluating its economic efficiency and complicates histories of capitalism that place communal values at odds with market orientation. Beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed and illustrated, Being Neighbours reveals the visceral textures of rural life.
Download or read book Public Education in Upper Canada written by Herbert Thomas John Coleman and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1907 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inventing the Loyalists written by Norman James Knowles and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing that the past is often written into present concerns, and that many groups in Ontario, both powerful and disempowered, have invoked the experience of the Loyalists, Knowles significantly revises earlier interpretations of the Loyalist tradition.
Download or read book Contributions to Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John A MacDonald written by Donald Creighton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1952 and 1955, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain remains a classic in Canadian arts and letters. Described as the greatest biography ever written in Canada, it earned Donald Creighton two Governor General's Awards. In 2013, the Toronto Review of Books recommended it to anyone who wished to become a better Canadian. In this book, Creighton examines the public and private lives of Canada’s first prime minister, his victories and defeats as well as his joys and pains. A gifted writer, Creighton takes the reader back in time, to the nineteenth century, the road to Confederation, and the building of the railway. Along the way, he visits Kingston, Quebec, Charlottetown, Ottawa, and London, following his hero from a few rooms above his father’s shop in Kingston to the corridors of power in England, including the magnificent Highclere Castle where much of the British North America Act was written. This edition includes a new introduction by Creighton's biographer, Donald Wright, and by Peter Waite, Creighton's very first doctoral student.
Download or read book Consumers in the Bush written by Douglas McCalla and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General stores are essential to the image of a colonial village. Many historians, however, still base their stories of settlement on the notion of rural self-sufficiency, begging the question: if general stores were so common, who were their customers? To answer this, Consumers in the Bush draws on the account books of country stores, rich evidence that has rarely been used. Douglas McCalla considers more than 30,000 transactions on the accounts of 750 families at seven Upper Canadian stores between 1808 and 1861. These customers were typical of rural society - farmers, artisans, labourers, and often women. At village stores they found a wide variety of products, most imported from Britain, a few from the United States, and a surprising number that were produced locally. Three chapters focus on the major product categories of dry goods, groceries, and hardware; a fourth considers local products, and a fifth addresses a variety of items - from household goods to footwear to school books. In telling us about the goods colonists bought, this book explores what they were used for and the stories they allow us to tell about rural lives and experience. By seeing rural Upper Canadians as consumers, Consumers in the Bush reveals them as full participants in the rapidly changing nineteenth-century global world of goods.
