Download or read book Early Life in Upper Canada written by Edwin C. Guillet and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1933-12-15 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Early Life in Upper Canada written by Edwin Clarence Guillet and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early life in Upper Canada written by Edwin Clarence Guillet and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Settlements in Upper Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Settlers in Upper Canada Gr 2 4 written by Solski, Ruth and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Settlement of Upper Canada Ontario written by William Canniff and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Life in Upper Canada written by Edwin C. Guillet and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Days in Upper Canada written by Edwin C. Guillet and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1963-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite abundant hardships, pioneer life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful, and Mr. Guillet brings vividly to life the early settlers and their experiences. He draws on contemporary letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals, supplementing these researches with interviews with persons who had personal contacts with early life in the province. This volume contains the chapters from Mr. Guillet's large volume, Early Life in Upper Canada, which describes the pioneer home, foods and cooking, milling, lumbering, maple sugar making, fishing, "bees", amusements in town and country, and pioneer sports. It is abundantly illustrated with authentic portraits, photographs, and drawings.
Download or read book Pioneer Settlements in Upper Canada written by Edwin C. Guillet and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1969-12-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The settlement of Upper Canada began in the Detroit river district where there were several hundred people living before the close of the French régime. Between 1785 and 1800 colonization continued with the arrival of Loyalists and other settlers, including a contingent of German mercenaries who fought for George III during the American Revolution. Pioneers continued to come in large numbers to the unsettled areas of the province for the next 75 years and these later settlers often suffered hardships greater than those experienced by the Loyalists. This is the story of these early settlements in Upper Canada. The author, a distinguished Canadian historian, has drawn on contemporary letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals; he has consulted all the existing histories, and has supplemented these researches with interviews with persons who had contacts with early life in the province. The numerous illustrations included accurately depict the era. This book was originally part of Early Life in Upper Canada, by far the finest social and economic history of the area yet compiled. It is being printed separately to make more widely available this important and engrossing description of the early settlement of Ontario. Informative, accurate and delightfully readable, this volume brings to life the pioneers of Ontario and vividly recreates their experiences.
Download or read book History of the Settlement of Upper Canada Ontario written by W. M. Canniff and published by Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Download or read book Early Life in Upper Canada written by Edwin C. Guillet and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Life Among the Loyalists in Upper Canada written by Walter Stevens Herrington and published by Macmillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1915 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To present a picture of the early settlements of Ontario and enter into the daily life of the pioneers is a most fascinating task. As we visit these historic districts and mingle with the descendants of the men and women who built the first log cabins in the forest, we imbibe the spirit of their simple life. Many of the old landmarks recall the stories of strange experiences we have so often heard, and the presence of the very flesh and blood of the first actors in the drama of the long struggle in the wilderness makes the scene all the more realistic. We think we can discern in the honest faces and general demeanour of these living links in our history something which indicates a deep-rooted sense of citizenship and a consciousness of a responsibility in keeping inviolate the traditions of their ancestors.
Download or read book History of the settlement of Upper Canada Ontario written by William Canniff and published by anboco. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1861 a meeting was convened at the Education Office, Toronto, with the view of establishing an Historical Society for Upper Canada. The writer, as an Upper Canadian by birth, and deeply interested in his country with respect to the past as well as the future, was present. The result of that meeting was the appointment of a Committee to frame a Constitution and By-Laws, and take the necessary steps to organize the proposed Society, and to report three weeks thereafter. The Committee consisted of the Hon. Mr. Merritt, Rev. Dr. Ryerson, Col. Jarvis, Mr. DeGrassi, Mr. Merritt, J. J. Hodgins, Dr. Canniff and Mr. Coventry. For reasons unknown to the writer, this Committee never even met. The following year the writer received a printed circular respecting an "Historical Society of Upper Canada" which had been established at St. Catharines, of which Col. John Clarke, of Port Dalhousie, was President; Hon. Wm. H. Merritt, Vice-President, and George Coventry, of Cobourg, Secretary. "HONORARY MEMBERS." "Chief Justice Sir John Beverley Robinson, Bart., Colonel Jarvis, Toronto, Doctor Canniff, Toronto, Henry Eccles, Esq., Q.C., William H. Kittson, Esq., Hamilton, Henry Ruttan, Esq., Cobourg, The Venerable Lord Bishop of Toronto, Alfio DeGrassi, Esq., Toronto, J. P. Merritt, St. Catharines, Thomas C. Keefer, Esq., Yorkville, Hon. George S. Boulton, Cobourg, David, Burn, Esq., Cobourg." At the request of this Society the writer undertook to prepare a Paper upon the Settlement of the Bay Quinté. Having been induced to take up his abode for a time at Belleville, near which he was born, the writer availed himself of every opportunity he could vicreate while engaged in his professional duties, during a period of five years, to collect facts pertaining to the subject. After some months of labor, he was advised by friends, in whose judgment he had confidence, to write a History of the Bay Quinté, for publication.
Download or read book Upper Canada written by Gerald M. Craig and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1963 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pen Pictures of Early Pioneer Life in Upper Canada written by Michael Gonder Scherck and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Settlements in Upper Canada written by Edwin Clarence Guillet and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier written by Neil Stevens Forkey and published by Calgary : University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Forkey makes a significant contribution to the growing body of work on Canadian environmental history. Themes of ethnicity and environment in the Trent Valley are brought into wider perspective with comparisons to other areas of contemporary settlement throughout the British Empire and North America. Forkey begins by placing his study within the literature of settler societies of Upper Canada and North America. The Trent Valley's geography, prehistory, and Native peoples, the Huron and the Mississauga, are discussed alongside the Anglo-Celtic migrations and resettlement of the area. Careful attention is devoted to the life and nature writings of Catherine Parr Traill. Her descriptions of life and environmental changes in the Valley point the way to a keener understanding of Canadian attitudes about the natural world during the nineteenth century. Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley is the story of the Trent Valley during the nineteenth century, one of a settler society and a microcosm for wider human and environmental changes throughout North America.
