Download or read book Directory of the United Counties of Peterborough Victoria for 1858 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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.
Download or read book The Valley of the Trent written by Edwin C. Guillet and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1957-12-15 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trent system of lakes, rivers, and canals occupies a considerable part of the counties of Hastings, Durham, Northumberland, Peterborough, Haliburton, and Victoria, in the province of Ontario. This volume of documents, records, and early writings covers the discovery and settlement of the valley, development and decline of the lumber trade, the Trent Canal and community life, and is abundantly illustrated in gravure and line from source materials. The Times Literary Supplement says of this first volume that is "raised high hopes of an important contribution to Canadian social and economic history." British Book News says that the "excerpts from manuscripts, newspapers, old and rare books and pamphlets, with the excellent contemporary illustrations, give a vivid and valuable account of early life in this interesting area."
Download or read book Respectable Ditch written by James Thomas Angus and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway King of Canada written by R. B. Fleming and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada’s best known entrepreneurs. He spearheaded some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada during his lifetime – building enterprises that became the foundations for such major institutions as Canadian National Railways, Brascan, and the Toronto Transit Commission. He built a business empire that stretched from Montreal to British Columbia and to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil. It included gas, electric, telephone and transit utilities, railroads, hotels, and steamships as well as substantial coal mining, whaling, and timber interests. For a time Mackenzie also owned Canada's largest newspaper, La Presse. He accumulated an enormous personal fortune, but when he died in 1923, his estate was virtually bankrupt as a result of the dramatic collapse of his Canadian Northern Railway during the First World War. In an era when the entrepreneur has come to be seen as a media hero and when struggles about the role of state enterprise in the transportation and energy sectors consume public policy debate, it is ironic that Mackenzie is largely forgotten by all but a few historians and railway aficionados. He left no papers to guide biographers. After a decade of gathering and piecing together fragments from an immense array of sources, Rae Fleming has written the first biography of the man that the German press extolled as the “Railway King of Canada.” Mackenzie was wily, crafty, manipulative, and intimidating. Starting as a general contractor in Eldon Township in rural Ontario, he built a small fortune contracting for the CPR in the Selkirks in the 1880s and then moved on to bigger things. Along the way, he funded the first full-length documentary movie, was toasted by the House of Lords, received a knighthood from George V, and developed close friendships with the major politicians of his day, including Borden and Meighen. In a business biography intended as much for general readers as for a scholarly audience, Fleming offers a revisionist perspective on Mackenzie. He dispels the simplistic approach of those historians and journalists who have depicted Mackenzie and his partner Sir Donald Mann as melodramatic crooks who could have stepped out of the pages of Huckleberry Finn.
Download or read book Annuaires Canadiens 1790 1987 written by National Library of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Checklist of Canadian Directories 1790 1950 written by Dorothy E. Ryder and published by Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1979 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ontario and the Canadian North written by William F. E. Morley and published by Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in a series of comprehensive bibliographies of local history. Histories of exploration of the Canadian North as precursors of specific settlement histories. Gives library locations for all titles cited.
Download or read book OLR Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nineteenth century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada written by Elizabeth Collard and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Frontiersmen and Settlers written by William C. Wonders and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chronicle of the Bell family is one which will be familiar to thousands of other Canadians whose ancestors were part of a massive immigration from the British Isles to Ontario in the early 19th century. Originally the Bells were one of the troublesome "riding clans" of the Scottish borders. (Another Bell group originated as an offshoot form Clan MacMillan in western Argyllshire) Many moved or were moved to Ireland in the early 17th century "Plantation" of Ulster, where their descendants remain to the present, as Ulster Scots. By the early 19th century severe economic depression, land pressures, and increased friction with the native Irish were widespread. It lead to a major emigration of Ulster Scots to North America, and particularly to Upper Canada. Their imprint on the character of Ontario persists to the present. After describing the nature and character of the countryside and of the Bells generally in the Scottish Borders and in Ulster, the author follows his maternal ancestors as they experience the hardships of emigration in 1832 ("the cholera year") and deal with the demands of pioneering in a new country. Originally they settled just southwest of Peterborough, but subsequently were attracted northwards when the Haliburton Highlands were opened for settlement. There the Canadian Shield provided severely limited prospects for farming and the family relocated to north Simcoe County. When the Canadian Northwest was opened for settlement in the late 19th century, several family members moved to what became today's Prairie Provinces. Those that remained in Ontario abandoned farming in the early 20th Century in favour of city life in a rapidly growing Toronto. Today's descendants are widely dispersed across central and western Canada and in the western United States. The author draws on a wide spectrum of material - official records, contemporary newspapers and published accounts, family records, letters and interviews to provide a vivid backdrop for the lives of his Bell family over time. Material and information has been collected by him over twenty-five years, in Scotland, Ireland , Canada, and the Unites States. Reaction from Readers "There are several reasons to buy and read this book...if you would like to be inspired by the methodlology of a trained academic researcher and writer, this is a book for you...[This] is a work that speaks to us directly and immediately from the times and circumstances under consideration. Len Chester - Families Magazine, May 2004 "A valuable addition to the Ontario pioneering literature" Dr. J.D. Wood, Professor of Geography, York University, Toronto "We do wish to congratulate you again for your outstanding book...It isimpossible to imagine the tremendous amount of research that you did. We find the amount ofdetailed history throughout so fascinating as well as the social and geographic studyof communities..." Mr. & Mrs. Millburn Jones, genealogists, of Peterborough, Ontario "The definitive chronicle of the Bell family migration...meticulously authored by ... a professor of international renown..." Denis Bell - Canadian Representative of the Bell Family Association/Clan Bell Association "...will be a most helpful reference aid for those searching Bell ancesors. You are to be congratulated on such an impressive piece." Fintan Mullan - Executive Director, Ulster Historical Foundation I just finished your book and felt at the end that your family history was virtually our family history. This is a wonderful study that I would call "middle history"... somewhere between global history and individual history (biography). Congratulations. What a tremendous amount of research you have done! I hope that this book becomes well known because, undoubtedly, it will save others a good deal of time in their family research. A really strong point of the work is the well-reconstructed social and physical back
Download or read book Ontario History written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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