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...

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