Pioneer Muskoka

Author : Ray Love
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781460288139

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Pioneer Muskoka by Ray Love Pdf

The history of Ontario's premier cottage destination, Muskoka, was not commonplace or uneventful. Beginning in the 1860's, emigrants from the British Isles and Europe were lured to this desolate region with the promise of free land grants for farming. What they found were mature forests, swamp, and never ending rock. Their heroic attempts to make a living farming on the Precambrian Shield did not come without considerable discomfort. Pioneer Muskoka documents the struggles faced by these early homesteaders and their response to hardship, isolation, disease and poverty. This is the tale of a community banding together to overcome fear with courage and determination. Readers will be astounded by the lengths these settlers went in their quest to make a home for themselves and future generations in Muskoka. The eventual shift from farming to more profitable industries such as lumber and tourism brought a shift in attitude towards this now highly sought after locale. The first families, through their enormous efforts, were able to create this positive and enduring change.

Author : Ray Love
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781460288122

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Pioneer Muskoka by Ray Love Pdf

The history of Ontario's premier cottage destination, Muskoka, was not commonplace or uneventful. Beginning in the 1860's, emigrants from the British Isles and Europe were lured to this desolate region with the promise of free land grants for farming. What they found were mature forests, swamp, and never ending rock. Their heroic attempts to make a living farming on the Precambrian Shield did not come without considerable discomfort. Pioneer Muskoka documents the struggles faced by these early homesteaders and their response to hardship, isolation, disease and poverty. This is the tale of a community banding together to overcome fear with courage and determination. Readers will be astounded by the lengths these settlers went in their quest to make a home for themselves and future generations in Muskoka. The eventual shift from farming to more profitable industries such as lumber and tourism brought a shift in attitude towards this now highly sought after locale. The first families, through their enormous efforts, were able to create this positive and enduring change....

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Pioneers
ISBN : OCLC:671299302

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Pioneer Days in Muskoka by Anonim Pdf

Newsletter covering the pioneer days in Port Sydney.

Author : Thomas Osborne
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459702387

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Reluctant Pioneer by Thomas Osborne Pdf

Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic." Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 192?
Category : Huntsville (Ont.)
ISBN : OCLC:671299302

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Pioneer Days in Muskoka by Anonim Pdf

Newsletter covering the pioneer days in Port Sydney.

Author : Ray Love
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525526237

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Muskoka Ontario's Playground by Ray Love Pdf

Recreation and Sport are an integral part of Canadian culture. This is nowhere more evident than in the Muskoka District of Ontario. Beginning in the 1860s, people from more populated areas of Southern Ontario and the North Eastern United States flocked to Muskoka to enjoy nature's bounty. They came to fish, hunt, canoe, sail, swim, hike and explore. Many vacationed at one of the ever expanding selection of Muskoka resorts. Others built their own recreational retreats or cottages. Also beginning in the 1860s, Free Land Grant recipients ventured to the area to take land and attempt to farm it. They became the permanent population base and set about developing their own recreations and sporting organizations. This book surveys the attempts of all of Muskoka's residents and visitors to enjoy the recreational opportunities the region provided. The main focus of this local history is on how people in the past used recreation and sport to enhance their lives. In other words, what they did for exercise and fun.

Author : Steve MacCoubrey
Publisher : Steve MacCoubrey
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780987831309

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A Pioneer Family In Muskoka by Steve MacCoubrey Pdf

Author : Andrew Watson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774867863

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Making Muskoka by Andrew Watson Pdf

Muskoka. Now a premier destination for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka uncovers the connections between lived experience and identity in rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield. This rocky section of Ontario was transformed from an Indigenous homeland to a settler community and a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers. But what were the consequences for those who lived there year-round?

Author : Andrew Hind,Maria Da Silva
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781770703209

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Ghost Towns of Muskoka by Andrew Hind,Maria Da Silva Pdf

Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow – or spectre – of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely, having been swallowed by regenerating forests, while others have been reduced to foundations, forlorn buildings, and silent ruins. A few support a handful of inhabitants, but even these towns are wrapped in a ghostly shroud. But this book isnt only about communities that have died. Rather it is about communities that lived, vibrantly at that, if only for a brief time. Its about the people whose dreams for a better life these villages represented; the people who lived, loved, laboured, and ultimately died in these small wilderness settlements. And its about an era in history, those early heady days of Muskoka settlement when the forests were flooded with loggers and land-hungry settlers.

Author : Ray Love
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781460252147

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Elgin House, Lake Joseph by Ray Love Pdf

Elgin House, Lake Joseph Past and Present is a history of an important and successful summer resort in the Muskoka Region of Ontario from 1885 to the present. It details the efforts of four generations of the Love family to create a world class summer resort from modest beginnings.The resort was unique in that it catered to the many well to do Canadians and Americans with strong religious beliefs including several of North America's founding families. The book revolves around a series of Love family stories and is set in the context of developments in Canadian history throughout the twentieth century. The book contains 58 images of the resort through it's history including a number by the Muskoka photography legend Frank Mickelthwaite. It concludes with a description of the present day use of this property in the form of the luxurious Lake Joseph Club, a Thomas McBroom designed championship golf course, villas and lake front dining facility.

Author : Richard Butler,Roslyn A. Russell
Publisher : CABI
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845936525

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Giants of Tourism by Richard Butler,Roslyn A. Russell Pdf

This book presents individuals who have made an important contribution to tourism. Most are entrepreneurs in the classic sense, but others are individuals who have had unintentional subsequent effects on tourism through their actions. The book is arranged in four parts: (i) giants of hospitality (chapters 1-5); (ii) giants of travel (chapters 6-10); (iii) giants of activities (chapters 11-14); and (iv) giants of development (chapters 15-19).

Author : J. Patrick Boyer
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780978160043

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Raw Life by J. Patrick Boyer Pdf

In publishing the human stories behind the late-19th-century cases of Magistrate James Boyer in Bracebridge, Ontario, and Muskoka, his great-grandson J. Patrick Boyer shows that Canadian society hasn't changed much whether the focus is on early road rage, the plight of abused women, environmental contamination, or punitive treatment of the poor.

Author : J. Patrick Boyer
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459708402

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Another Country, Another Life by J. Patrick Boyer Pdf

James Boyer's impressive life story - editor of the first newspaper in Ontario's northern districts, homesteading farmer, schoolteacher, town clerk of Bracebridge for decades, Methodist choir director, Muskoka district magistrate from 1878 to 1900 - is well documented in books and newspaper features. Behind his noteworthy Canadian life, however, lurked the haunting shadow of another. Isaac Jelfs, a young English clerk, became scapegoat for a Stratford law office scandal. In Birmingham the desperate Jelfs married, believing the older woman was pregnant by him. Unemployed, he tried to start over as a soldier with the Dragoon Guards in the Crimean War. As a deserter who escaped that mad slaughter to New York, he joined a major Broadway Avenue firm, fell in love with another woman, and fled to Canada with her and their love child to begin yet another new life, this time as Muskoka pioneer "James Boyer."

Author : Frederick de la Fosse
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781896219967

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English Bloods by Frederick de la Fosse Pdf

An illuminating and humorous biographical account of the "English Bloods" young men sent to learn farming skills in Muskoka in pioneer times.

Author : Gordon Aiken
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926577043

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No Return by Gordon Aiken Pdf

A feud that began in the Muskoka's backwoods comes to a dramatic climax with precedent-setting events in the House of Commons at Ottawa after a partisan Tory returning officer uses a technicality to make no return of the Liberal candidate as the district's elected MP in the 1872 general election.