The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman : : Volume One / / Edwin Guillet.
In this lavishly illustrated new book, the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and other famous histories of pioneer days, relates the story of the Canadian farm and farmer from the primitive to the machine age. Farm life and farm processes are pictured in fascinating detail, and Mr. Guillet "...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1963 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. INDIAN AND FRENCH AGRICULTURE
- CHAPTER II. THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS
- CHAPTER III. EMIGRATION ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
- CHAPTER IV. ASCENDING THE ST. LAWRENCE
- CHAPTER V. THE PIONEER HOME
- CHAPTER VI. FOOD AND CLOTHING
- CHAPTER VII. FARM IMPLEMENTS AND TOOLS
- CHAPTER VIII. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
- CHAPTER IX. DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES
- CHAPTER X. TRAVEL AND COMMUNICATION
- CHAPTER XI. INNS AND TAVERNS
- CHAPTER XII. THE PIONEER WOMAN
- CHAPTER XIII. AMUSEMENT AND SOCIAL LIFE
- CHAPTER XIV. PIONEER SOCIETIES
- CHAPTER XV. EDUCATION AND CULTURAL LIFE
- CHAPTER XVI. RELIGIOUS LIFE
- CHAPTER XVII. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SETTLERS
- CHAPTER XVIII. CHOOSING A LOT
- CHAPTER XIX. CLEARING THE LAND