Download or read book Pioneer Days in Muskoka written by and published by . This book was released on 192? with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newsletter covering the pioneer days in Port Sydney.
Download or read book Pioneer Days in Muskoka written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newsletter covering the pioneer days in Port Sydney.
Download or read book Pioneer Muskoka written by Ray Love and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Ontario's premier cottage destination, Muskoka, was not commonplace or uneventful. Beginning in the 1860's, emigrants from the British Isles and Europe were lured to this desolate region with the promise of free land grants for farming. What they found were mature forests, swamp, and never ending rock. Their heroic attempts to make a living farming on the Precambrian Shield did not come without considerable discomfort. Pioneer Muskoka documents the struggles faced by these early homesteaders and their response to hardship, isolation, disease and poverty. This is the tale of a community banding together to overcome fear with courage and determination. Readers will be astounded by the lengths these settlers went in their quest to make a home for themselves and future generations in Muskoka. The eventual shift from farming to more profitable industries such as lumber and tourism brought a shift in attitude towards this now highly sought after locale. The first families, through their enormous efforts, were able to create this positive and enduring change....
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 The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Muskoka written by Andrew Hind and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow – or spectre – of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely, having been swallowed by regenerating forests, while others have been reduced to foundations, forlorn buildings, and silent ruins. A few support a handful of inhabitants, but even these towns are wrapped in a ghostly shroud. But this book isnt only about communities that have died. Rather it is about communities that lived, vibrantly at that, if only for a brief time. Its about the people whose dreams for a better life these villages represented; the people who lived, loved, laboured, and ultimately died in these small wilderness settlements. And its about an era in history, those early heady days of Muskoka settlement when the forests were flooded with loggers and land-hungry settlers.
Download or read book Longman s Magazine written by Charles James Longman and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Longman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raw Life written by J. Patrick Boyer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In publishing the human stories behind the late-19th-century cases of Magistrate James Boyer in Bracebridge, Ontario, and Muskoka, his great-grandson J. Patrick Boyer shows that Canadian society hasn't changed much whether the focus is on early road rage, the plight of abused women, environmental contamination, or punitive treatment of the poor.
Download or read book Giants of Tourism written by Richard Butler and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents individuals who have made an important contribution to tourism. Most are entrepreneurs in the classic sense, but others are individuals who have had unintentional subsequent effects on tourism through their actions. The book is arranged in four parts: (i) giants of hospitality (chapters 1-5); (ii) giants of travel (chapters 6-10); (iii) giants of activities (chapters 11-14); and (iv) giants of development (chapters 15-19).
Download or read book Ulysses Cycling in Ontario written by John Allan Lynes and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The pioneers written by Andrew Frederick Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Simcoe County The pioneers written by Andrew Frederick Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Almaguin written by Astrid Taim and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 km corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers and a lively history. Once considered as a possibility for a government Indian Reserve in the early 1800s, Almaguin became a centre for lumbering and ultimately a year-round mecca for outdoor enthusiasts. Almaguin: A Highland History offers a wide range of stories from the opening of the area by colonization roads to the first vessels on the Magnetawan River and the courage of the early pioneers. Included are community histories of the many towns, villages and ghost towns of today, profiles of colourful personalities, as well as interesting and amusing tales of these rugged early times.
Download or read book Astrid Taim s Almaguin Chronicles 2 Book Bundle written by Astrid Taim and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 kilometre corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch, and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers, and a lively history. Once considered as a site for a First Nations Reserve in the early 1800s, Almaguin became a centre for lumbering and ultimately a year-round mecca for outdoor enthusiasts. This 2-book bundle is Astrid Taim's definitive guide to the region and its heritage. Almaguin: A Highland History offers a wide range of stories from the opening of the area by colonization roads to the first vessels on the Magnetawan River and the courage of the early pioneers. Included are community histories of the many towns, villages, and ghost towns of today; profiles of colourful personalities; as well as interesting and amusing tales of these rugged early times. Almaguin Chronicles explores the relationship between lumbering and settlement throughout the Parry Sound District — the last frontier of this part of Ontario. Throughout, rare archival photographs and excerpts from unpublished memoirs augment the text.
Download or read book Another Country Another Life written by J. Patrick Boyer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Boyer's impressive life story - editor of the first newspaper in Ontario's northern districts, homesteading farmer, schoolteacher, town clerk of Bracebridge for decades, Methodist choir director, Muskoka district magistrate from 1878 to 1900 - is well documented in books and newspaper features. Behind his noteworthy Canadian life, however, lurked the haunting shadow of another. Isaac Jelfs, a young English clerk, became scapegoat for a Stratford law office scandal. In Birmingham the desperate Jelfs married, believing the older woman was pregnant by him. Unemployed, he tried to start over as a soldier with the Dragoon Guards in the Crimean War. As a deserter who escaped that mad slaughter to New York, he joined a major Broadway Avenue firm, fell in love with another woman, and fled to Canada with her and their love child to begin yet another new life, this time as Muskoka pioneer "James Boyer."
Download or read book History of Muskoka written by L. R. Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
