Annotated Time Table Of The Tour Through Canada Of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke And Duchess Of Cornwall And York

Author : Grand Trunk Railway Company Of Canada
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265212097
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Annotated Time Table of the Tour Through Canada of Their Royal Highnesses written by Grand Trunk Railway Company Of Canada and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annotated Time Table of the Tour Through Canada of Their Royal Highnesses: The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York Lake Ontario, and in the Niagara Peninsula. They are known to history as the United Empire Loyalists, and were of varied descent, numbering among them many sons of England, Scotland, and Ireland, besides persons of Ger man, Dutch, and Huguenot origin. Some were farmers, but the greater number consisted of discharged officers and men who had served Great Britain in the late war and were unaccustomed to pioneer life. They began the arduous task of felling trees, clearing the land (for Ontario at that time was an unbroken forest), the building of rude houses and barns, and the planting of cleared ground among the stumps of the forest trees with wheat, oats, and potatoes for the sustenance of themselves and their families. In 1812, the population had grown from practically nothing to all of whom, with the exception of a few hun dred, were engaged in tilling the land. At this time the principal articles exported from the farms were oak and pine timber, and potash distilled from wood ashes. Gradually a larger amount of land was brought under cultivation and more substantial farm buildings of sawn lumber took the place of the first crude log structures. In 1800, there were five towns in the Province of over inhabitants each, viz: Brockville, Hamilton, London, Toronto, and Kingston, The Prov ince could also boast of one daily paper and one bank. At the end of the second thirty-year period, namely in 1837, the population had increased to by far the greater portion still living on the farm. During the third period, from 1837 to 1867, an ex tensive immigration set in from England, Scotland, and Ireland. The great famine of 1846 sent Irish emigrantsto America by tens of thousands. These new comers, who were a very fine set of settlers, located, as a rule, in groups or blocks, which formed the nuclei of some of the richest townships in Ontario. In this manner arose the Highland settlement of Glengarry, the settlement of English gentle men and retired military officers near Cobourg, the Irish settlement near Peterboro', the military settlement near Perth, the Talbot settlement in Elgin, the Canada Com pany's settlement in the Huron tract, the block of Paisley weavers in Wellington, the Germans in Waterloo, Huron, and Renfrew, and the French Canadians in Essex, Pres cott, and Russell. 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.