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Author : Emigrant Lady,Muskoka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:316658723
Author : Emigrant lady
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
ISBN : OXFORD:N10605981
Author : Mrs. Charles Gerrard King
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066216016
"Letters from Muskoka" by Mrs. Charles Gerrard King. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Mrs. Charles Gerrard King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1300921146
Author : Harriet Barbara King
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1406881376
First published in 1878, this is an account of the experiences of a widow and her grown-up children who emigrated to Muskoka, Ontario in Canada.
Author : Emigrant lady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0659997975
Author : Mrs. Charles Gerrard King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011*
Category : Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
ISBN : OCLC:858396858
Author : Emigrant Lady
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1333127715
Excerpt from Letters From Muskoka The commencement of the war found us living in the outskirts of St. Pierre-les-calais, a suburb of Calais, and a busy place, full of lace factories. Our house and grounds, quite open to the country at the back, fronted the canal which communicates with the sea at Calais. When the war had made some progress, and the German army appeared to be steadily advancing through France, we found ourselves in a most unpleasant dilemma - in fact, literally between fire and water! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles Gerrard King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798745458385
Letters from Muskoka Mrs. Charles Gerrard King
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348017963
Author : Donna E. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459708068
How emigrants were lured to Ontario’s Muskoka in the 1870s in a vain attempt to farm the Canadian Shield. When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario’s Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or reserved for the Aboriginal population. From the beginning, many people vented serious doubts about the free grant scheme, citing the district’s poor agricultural prospects. In the end, such caution was ignored by overeager boosters. The story in Hardscrabble also takes readers to Britain, where emigration philanthropists urged their government to send the country’s poor to Canada, then follows these emigrants as they left the familiar behind to make a new life in the Canadian wilderness. The initial romance of living off the land was soon dispelled as these hapless souls faced clearing the land, building shelters, and sowing crops in desolate, remote locations. Donna Williams’s extensive research leads her to conclude that Muskoka’s experience epitomizes the wrongheadedness of placing already poor people on remote land unsuited for farming.
Author : Dirk Hoerder
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773567986
Dirk Hoerder shows us that it is not shining railroad tracks or statesmen in Ottawa that make up the story of Canada but rather individual stories of life and labour - Caribbean women who care for children born in Canada, lonely prairie homesteaders, miners in Alberta and British Columbia, women labouring in factories, Chinese and Japanese immigrants carving out new lives in the face of hostility. Hoerder examines these individual experiences in Creating Societies, the first systematic overview of the total Canadian immigrant experience. Using letters, travel accounts, diaries, memoirs, and reminiscences, he brings the immigrant's experiences to life. Their writings, often recorded for grandchildren, neighbours, and sometimes a larger public, show how immigrant lives were entwined with the emerging Canadian society. Hoerder presents an important new picture of the emerging Canadian identity, dispelling the Canadian myth of a dichotomy between national unity and ethnic diversity and emphasizing the long-standing interaction between the members of a different ethnic groups.
Author : Patricia Jasen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802076380
Europeans in the nineteenth century were fascinated with the wild and the primitive. So compelling was the craving for a first-hand experience of wilderness that it provided a lasting foundation for tourism as a consumer industry. In this book, Patricia Jasen shows how the region now known as Ontario held special appeal for tourists seeking to indulge a passion for wild country or act out their fantasies of primitive life. Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, Muskoka, and the far reaches of Lake Superior all offered the experiences tourists valued most: the tranquil pleasures of the picturesque, the excitement of the sublime, and the sensations of nostalgia associated with Canada's disappearing wilderness. Jasen situates her work within the context of recent writings about tourism history and the semiotics of tourism, about landscape perception and images of `wildness' and `wilderness, ' and about the travel narrative as a literary genre. She explores a number of major themes, including the imperialistic appropriation and commercialization of landscape into tourist images, services, and souvenirs. In a study of class, gender, and race, Jasen finds that by the end of the century, most workers still had little opportunity for travel, while the middle classes had come to regard holidays as a right and a duty in light of Social Darwinist concerns about preserving the health of the `race.' Women travellers have been disregarded or marginalized in many studies of the history of tourism, but this book makes their presence known and analyses their experience. It also examines, against the backdrop of nineteenth-century racism and expansionism, the major role played by Native people in the tourist industry. The first book to explore the cultural foundations of tourism in Ontario, Wild Things also makes a major contribution to the literature on the wilderness ideal in North America.
Author : William Fong
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 835 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773577800
J.W. McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of his generation - in Canada and internationally. Early in his career McConnell established the Montreal office of the Standard Chemical Company and began selling bonds and shares in both North America and Europe, establishing relationships that would lead to his enormous financial success. He was involved in numerous businesses, from tramways to ladies' fashion to mining, and served on the boards of several corporations. For nearly fifty years he was president of St Laurence Sugar and late in life he became the owner and publisher of the Montreal Star. McConnell was an indefatigable and formidable fundraiser for the YMCA, the war effort of 1914/18, hospitals, and McGill University, where he served as governor for almost three decades. In 1937 he established what would become The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, the first major foundation in Canada and still one of the best endowed. J.W. McConnell was a principled and brilliant visionary with a strong work ethic and a deep commitment to the public good, a Rockefellerian figure in both big business and high society who quietly became one of the greatest philanthropists of his time. His life story - told in uncompromising detail by William Fong - is a study of raising, spending, and giving away money on the grandest scale.
Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Ontario
ISBN : SRLF:A0001866045
