Toronto During the French Regime : : A History of the Toronto Region From Brule to Simcoe, 1615–1793 / / Percy J. Robinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Robinson, Percy J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Hewitt, J. N. B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

The story of the Toronto Carrying-place, and its rôle during the century and a half of French rule before the arrival of Simcoe, is the story of a dramatic and picturesque period in Toronto's past. Sometimes intimately, sometimes remotely, the Toronto Carrying-place was touched by the struggle for the control of the continent waged so long between the French on the St. Lawrence and the Dutch and English on the Hudson. The history of the region is a fascinating one, and the first full account of it, down to the founding of York in 1793, was written by Percy James Robinson in 1934, at the time of the centenary of the city of Toronto. This valuable record, unavailable for many years, is reprinted now with the addition of later material by the author. Its reappearance will be welcomed by all those interested in the early history of Canada. Toronto during the French Régime owes its beginning to the author's great interest in the historian Du Creux (whose Historiae Canadensis he had translated from the Latin), to his studies of the early maps of the region, and to his knowledge of the Huron language. He was intrigued, too, with the etymology of the name "Toronto," and he clarifies here the origin of the name, and describes how it travelled south from Huronia to the Toronto area.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PUBLISHER'S NOTE -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- I. SHADOWS ON THE STREET -- II. THE GATEWAY OF THE HURON COUNTRY: 1615-1663 -- III. HENNEPIN AND LA SALLE AT THE CARRYING-PLACE: 1663-1683 -- IV. FROM THE RETURN OF LA SALLE TO DE CALLIÈRES' TREATY WITH THE IROQUOIS: 1683-1701 -- V. FROM THE FOUNDING OF DETROIT TO THE BUILDING OF FORT TORONTO: 1701-1750. THE Magasin Royal AT TORONTO: 1720-1730 -- VI. FORT TORONTO OR FORT ROUILLÉ: 1750 - 1759 -- VII. FROM THE FALL OF NIAGARA TO THE END OF THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC: 1759-1764 -- VIII. FROM THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC TO THE QUEBEC ACT: 1764-1774 -- IX. FROM THE QUEBEC ACT TO THE FOUNDING OF YORK: 1774-1793 -- X. THE FOUNDING OF YORK AND THE LAST PHASE OF THE CARRYING-PLACE: 1793 -- XI. RETRACING THE TRAIL -- XII. JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU -- I. THE ETYMOLOGY OF "TORONTO" -- II. CARTOGRAPHY OF THE TORONTO REGION FROM 1600-1816 -- III. PHILIPPE FRANÇOIS DE RASTEL DE ROCHEBLAVE -- IV. IROQUOIS PLACE-NAMES ON THE NORTH SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO -- APPENDIX TO SECOND EDITION -- THE TORONTO PURCHASE -- THE NAME TORONTO -- MORE ABOUT TORONTO -- LATER NOTES TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT -- INDEX