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Author : Florence B. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Muskoka and Haliburton 1615-1875 written by Florence B. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Astrid Taim
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554880734
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Almaguin written by Astrid Taim and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 km corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers and a lively history. Once considered as a possibility for a government Indian Reserve in the early 1800s, Almaguin became a centre for lumbering and ultimately a year-round mecca for outdoor enthusiasts. Almaguin: A Highland History offers a wide range of stories from the opening of the area by colonization roads to the first vessels on the Magnetawan River and the courage of the early pioneers. Included are community histories of the many towns, villages and ghost towns of today, profiles of colourful personalities, as well as interesting and amusing tales of these rugged early times.
Author : Edward S. Rogers
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554880637
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Aboriginal Ontario written by Edward S. Rogers and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1995 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award for the best book on native studies 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 : Terry Boyle
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145973632X
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Terry Boyle's Discover Ontario 5-Book Bundle written by Terry Boyle and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Boyle is an incomparable observer of Ontario’s charming side, and its ghostly shadows. Presented here are five of his must-read guides for Ontarians everywhere interested in getting off the beaten track. Includes: Discover Ontario Hidden Ontario Haunted Ontario Haunted Ontario 3 Haunted Ontario 4
Author : Donna E. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459708067
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Hardscrabble written by Donna E. Williams and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-07-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Astrid Taim
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550027603
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Almaguin Chronicles written by Astrid Taim and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-01-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering the Magnetawan River district, is a land rich with waterways and a lively history.
Author : Astrid Taim
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459737008
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Astrid Taim's Almaguin Chronicles 2-Book Bundle written by Astrid Taim and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 kilometre corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch, and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers, and a lively history. Once considered as a site for a First Nations Reserve in the early 1800s, Almaguin became a centre for lumbering and ultimately a year-round mecca for outdoor enthusiasts. This 2-book bundle is Astrid Taim's definitive guide to the region and its heritage. Almaguin: A Highland History offers a wide range of stories from the opening of the area by colonization roads to the first vessels on the Magnetawan River and the courage of the early pioneers. Included are community histories of the many towns, villages, and ghost towns of today; profiles of colourful personalities; as well as interesting and amusing tales of these rugged early times. Almaguin Chronicles explores the relationship between lumbering and settlement throughout the Parry Sound District — the last frontier of this part of Ontario. Throughout, rare archival photographs and excerpts from unpublished memoirs augment the text.
Author : Andrew Watson
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774867868
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Making Muskoka written by Andrew Watson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ray Love
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460288122
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Muskoka written by Ray Love and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Frederick de la Fosse
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1896219969
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book English Bloods written by Frederick de la Fosse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-08-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating and humorous biographical account of the "English Bloods" young men sent to learn farming skills in Muskoka in pioneer times.
Author : Richard Butler
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845936523
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Giants of Tourism written by Richard Butler and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Patricia Jasen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802076386
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Wild Things written by Patricia Jasen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edmund Jefferson Danziger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472096907
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance During the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900 written by Edmund Jefferson Danziger and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how Great Lakes Indians survived the early reservation years
Author : Gordon Nelson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077358742X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Global City written by Gordon Nelson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policies promoting Toronto as a global city and provincial economic engine have been seen as beneficial to the development of all of Ontario, yet much of the province has borne significant environmental, social, economic, and political costs as a result of one city's growth. Contributors to this volume call for a radical re-imagining of public policy at local, provincial, and federal levels, that accounts for Ontario's overlooked regions. Beyond the Global City presents a kaleidoscopic view of the province - the rich fields and small towns of the southwest, the productive agricultural lands of rural Huron County, historic Kingston and the Upper St Lawrence, the social and cultural diversity of the Ottawa valley, the near mythical woodlands and waters of Muskoka and Georgian Bay, and the heavily exploited coasts and waters of the Great Lakes - to provide a deeper understanding of its various communities. In a series of regional studies, contributors describe each area's distinctive qualities and challenges and offer recommendations about what is needed to move them forward in a more equitable and sustainable way. Two initial historical chapters lay the framework for the regional discussions, while cross-cutting and integrated chapters analyze the state of natural and cultural heritage and current development theory provincially, offering guidance for the future.
Author : K. Valentine Cadieux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136193855
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia written by K. Valentine Cadieux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace—and where many of the central features of exurbia—very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing—contribute to the very problems that the social and environmental aesthetic of exurbia attempts to avoid. The volume shows how this contradiction—to live in the green landscape, and to protect the green landscape from urbanization—gets caught up and represented in the ideology of nature, and how this ideology, in turn, constitutes and is constituted by the landscapes being urbanized.
Author : James A. Clifton
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772821888
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Place of refuge for all time written by James A. Clifton and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph contains a study of the movement of a large portion of the Potawatomi tribe from the states of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan into Upper Canada in the period 1830-1850. It also examines the Canadian evidence to shed some light on not well understood features of Potawatomi social organization and ecological adaptations in the first decades of the nineteenth century.
Author : J. Patrick Boyer
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459708407
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Another Country, Another Life written by J. Patrick Boyer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
