Ontario History

Author : Edward S. Rogers,Donald B. Smith
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550022308

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Aboriginal Ontario by Edward S. Rogers,Donald B. Smith Pdf

Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume reviews the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of Ontario thousands of years ago. It includes a comprehensive account of the archaeologists' contributions to our knowledge of the material culture of the First Nations before the arrival of the Europeans. The essays in the second and third sections look respectively at the Native peoples of Southern Ontario and Northern Ontario, from 1550 to 1945. The final section looks at more recent developments. The volume includes numerous illustrations and maps, as well as an extensive bibliography.

Author : John Connon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889208575

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The Early History of Elora, Ontario and Vicinity by John Connon Pdf

Elora: The Early History of Elora and Vicinity provides little-known details about the settlement and development of the Elora area in southern Ontario from the earliest settler in 1817. Then, as now, people were drawn to the Elora Gorge and the rocky banks of the Grand River. The book is a compilation of material that appeared weekly in The Elora Express between 1906 and 1909 with some additional material from the 1920s. Connon traces the settlers as they arrive and reports on the development of the town as they acquired a grist mill, a store, a bridge, and inevitably a railway. Rich with genealogical information, this is an important historical document. Introduction by Gerald Noonan.

Author : Robert Matthew Bray,A. Ernest Epp,Ontario. Ministry of Northern Affairs
Publisher : Thunder Bay, Ont. : Lakehead University ; Sudbury, Ont. : Laurentian University
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Ontario
ISBN : 0886630010

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A Vast and Magnificent Land by Robert Matthew Bray,A. Ernest Epp,Ontario. Ministry of Northern Affairs Pdf

Ontario, History of northern Ontario.

Author : Roger Hall,William Westfall,Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554882649

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Patterns of the Past by Roger Hall,William Westfall,Laurel Sefton MacDowell Pdf

Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its objectives, for a century, have been to promote and develop the study of Ontario’s past. The purpose of this book is both to commemorate and to carry on that worthy tradition. Introduced by Ian Wilson, Archivist of Ontario, and edited by Roger Hall, William Westfall and Laurel Sefton MacDowell, this distinctive volume is a landmark not only in the Society’s history but in the prince’s historiography. Eighteen scholars have pooled their talents to fashion a volume of fresh interpretive essays that chronicle and analyze the whole scope of Ontario’s rich and varied past. New light is thrown on our understanding of early native peoples, rural life in Upper Canada, the opening of the North, the impact of railways, and the growth of businesses and institutions. And there is much social study here too, especially of the new roles for women in industrial society, of working class experience, of ethnic groups, and of children in our society’s past. As well, there are innovative treatments of the conservation movement, of science’s role in provincial society, and of the relationship between society and culture in small towns. Anyone with an interest in the history of Canada’s most populous province will find much in this comprehensive collection.

Author : Alexander Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Ontario
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010387251

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A History of Ontario by Alexander Fraser Pdf

Volume 1, p. 497-678 and all of volume 2 contain biographies.

Author : Charles Pelham Mulvany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Canada
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081323826

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History of the County of Peterborough, Ontario by Charles Pelham Mulvany Pdf

Author : Robert Bothwell
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X001109676

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A Short History of Ontario by Robert Bothwell Pdf

Author : Donald Harman Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773560987

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Irish in Ontario, 1st Edition by Donald Harman Akenson Pdf

Hailed as one of the most important books on social sciences of the last fifty years by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada. Akenson argues that, despite the popular conception of the Irish as a city people, those who settled in Ontario were primarily rural and small-town dwellers. Though it is often claimed that the experience of the Irish in their homeland precluded their successful settlement on the frontier in North America, Akenson's research proves that the Irish migrants to Ontario not only chose to live chiefly in the hinterlands, but that they did so with marked success. Akenson also suggests that by using Ontario as an "historical laboratory" it is possible to make valid assessments of the real differences between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics, characteristics which he contends are much more precisely measurable in the neutral environment of central Canada than in the turbulent Irish homeland. While Akenson is careful not to over-generalize his findings, he contends that the case of Ontario seriously calls into question conventional beliefs about the cultural limitations of the Irish Catholics not only in Canada but throughout North America.

Author : R. Louis Gentilcore,C. Grant Head
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802034152

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Ontario's History in Maps by R. Louis Gentilcore,C. Grant Head Pdf

Ontario has a rich, varied, and still expanding inheritance of maps. Many of these are attractive works of art, but they are also historical documents, records of the aspirations and achievements of the people of Ontario. Some are a representation of facts on the ground, others a setting down of future plans. They reflect the knowledge and the understanding, not always accurate, of each generation about the environment; they were and are often the basis for important decisions on matters of economic, military, and political policy. The techniques used to produce maps of Ontario in Europe or in the province and their general appearance and arrangement reflect the cultural values, the interests, and the technological skills of those who commissioned, conceived, and drew them. For this volume the authors have selected nearly three hundred maps, which, combined with an ample explanatory text and informative captions, present a unique graphic history of Ontario from its discovery by European explorers to the present. The text and maps trace the development of the province as recorded in the earliest European manuscript and printed maps of the area, through the fine watercolour maps of the Simcoe era, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century maps documenting the process of settlement and the search for and use of mineral and forest resources. Military road maps, maps of canals and railroads, highway maps, and maps illustrating the planning and development of urban areas show vividly how the people of Ontario have imposed intricate patterns of control and use on a vast land. Approximately half the maps are in full colour. The volume includes an extensive cartobibliographical essay by Joan Winearls for those who wish to learn more about our legacy in this area. Ontario's History in Maps is an outstanding example of contemporary methods of map reproduction, and a work which combines effectively the insights of historical geography and cartography.

Author : W.R. Chadwick
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889202269

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The Battle for Berlin, Ontario by W.R. Chadwick Pdf

Chronicles the events of 1916--a watershed year in the history of the small Canadian town known today as Kitchener, Ontario. The community, founded by German immigrants, was in turmoil over attempts to raise a battalion to support the British war effort, and that turmoil broke down the established order and culminated in the town's name change. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Emily Poynton Weaver
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066360375

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The Story of the Counties of Ontario by Emily Poynton Weaver Pdf

"The Story of the Counties of Ontario" is a historical novel about the Canadian region of Ontario, and the courageous settlers who shaped it in its beginnings. "The story of the counties of Ontario is a story of conquest—not of men against men—but of men, with little resource save their own strong arms, iron wills and alert intelligence, pitted against wild, beautiful, prolific Nature, and prevailing to subdue the earth. Carving their little farms from "the forest primeval," planting their own towns and cities at the meeting-places of mighty waters, making highways of every lake and river and streamlet deep enough to bear up a birch-bark canoe, our Loyalist "Pilgrim Fathers," many of whom had been cast out as unworthy by the land of their birth, were privileged, as has often happened with outcasts, to found a new order of things and a new nation."

Author : Marit K. Munson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773589193

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Before Ontario by Marit K. Munson Pdf

A lively and accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province’s leading archaeologists.

Author : Ontario Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Ontario
ISBN : UVA:X000532851

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Profiles of a Province by Ontario Historical Society Pdf

A collection of essays commissioned by the Ontario Historical Society to commemmorate the centennial of Ontario.

Author : Ontario Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Ontario
ISBN : UOM:39015008548086

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Profiles of a Province by Ontario Historical Society Pdf

Author : G.P, deT. Glazebrook
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1968-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487597610

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Life in Ontario by G.P, deT. Glazebrook Pdf

This is Ontario's story, a collective biography of her people, a history of her development as a province. Illustrated by Adrian Dingle, this refreshing study, with its emphasis on the personal, offers an enduring portrait of a province.