Early Life in Upper Canada / / Edwin Guillet.

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 pu...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1933
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t FOREWORD BY THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION FOR ONTARIO --   |t PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION --   |t CONTENTS --   |t ILLUSTRATIONS --   |t SECTION I. EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE --   |t CHAPTER I. CHAMPLAIN AND THE HURON COUNTRY --   |t CHAPTER II. FATHER HENNEPIN AND THE FALLS OP NIAGARA --   |t CHAPTER III. ALEXANDER HENRY, FUR TRADER --   |t SECTION II. SETTLEMENT --   |t CHAPTER I. THE GLENGARRY HIGHLANDERS --   |t CHAPTER II. CARLETON COUNTY AND BYTOWN --   |t CHAPTER III. PETERBOROUGH COUNTY --   |t CHAPTER IV. ROUILLÉ—TORONTO—YORK, 1750-1803 --   |t CHAPTER V. COLONEL TALBOT AND HIS SETTLEMENT --   |t CHAPTER VI. ON THE SHORES OP THE DETROIT --   |t SECTION III. PIONEER LIFE --   |t CHAPTER I. THE PIONEER HOME --   |t CHAPTER II. FOODS AND COOKING --   |t CHAPTER III. THE "HUNGRY YEAR" --   |t CHAPTER IV. GRINDING GRAIN INTO FLOUR --   |t CHAPTER V. LUMBERING --   |t CHAPTER VI. MAPLE SUGAR MAKING --   |t CHAPTER VII. FISHING --   |t CHAPTER VIII. PIONEER CO-OPERATION—"BEES" --   |t CHAPTER IX. AMUSEMENT AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS --   |t CHAPTER X. AMUSEMENT AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE TOWNS --   |t CHAPTER XI. PIONEER SPORTS—CURLING --   |t SECTION IV. TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION --   |t CHAPTER I. INDIAN TRAILS, LOYALIST ROUTES AND CHANNELS OF TRADE --   |t CHAPTER II. THE CANOE --   |t CHAPTER III. BATEAU AND DURHAM BOAT --   |t CHAPTER IV. THE SAILING-SHIP --   |t CHAPTER V. THE STEAMSHIP --   |t CHAPTER VI. BY INDIAN TRAIL AND BLAZED PATH --   |t CHAPTER VII. ROADS AND ROAD-BUILDERS --   |t CHAPTER VIII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION --   |t CHAPTER IX. THE STAGE-COACH --   |t CHAPTER X. EARLY CANADIAN RAILROADS THE COBOURG AND PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY --   |t CHAPTER XI. THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY --   |t CHAPTER XII. FROM INDIAN COURIER TO AIR MAIL—THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POSTAL SERVICE --   |t SECTION V. NOTABLE EVENTS --   |t CHAPTER I. THE FIRST PARLIAMENT OF UPPER CANADA AT NIAGARA, 1792-96 --   |t CHAPTER II. SIR ISAAC BROCK AND QUEENSTON HEIGHTS, 1812 --   |t CHAPTER III. THE OCCUPATION OP YORK BY THE AMERICANS, 1813 --   |t CHAPTER IV. THE BATTLE OF MONTGOMERY'S FARM, AND THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE, 1837 --   |t CHAPTER V. THE ESCAPE OF REBELLION REFUGEES --   |t CHAPTER VI. THE BATTLE OP WINDMILL POINT, PRESCOTT, 1838 --   |t CHAPTER VII. THE FENIAN RAIDS --   |t CHAPTER VIII. THE RIEL REBELLION OP 1870—THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION --   |t BIBLIOGRAPHY --   |t KEY TO THE INDEX --   |t INDEX 
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520 |a 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. 
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