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Upper Canada

Author : Gerald M. Craig
Publisher : OUP Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780199009046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Upper Canada written by Gerald M. Craig and published by OUP Canada. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the American Revolution, some forty thousand immigrants from the thirteen colonies came to Canada, many settling in what is now Southern Ontario. These newcomers would add significantly to the region's economic growth, as a ready supply of agricultural labour, knowledge of the trades, and wealth. This period saw expansion in education, changes in land usage, and much agricultural output as land was parceled out to the newcomers. The structure of government expanded to a considerable degree, and transportation and communication were also developed. Other institutions grew to meet the needs of the swelling population, including education and religion. These years also saw considerable political upheaval in the way of agitation for reform, conflict among different groups, and the growth of a local culture. Craig's guide to the changes in Upper Canada is still considered one of the best descriptions of this period of rapid change.

A Pioneer Thanksgiving

Author : Barbara Greenwood
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781550747447
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book A Pioneer Thanksgiving written by Barbara Greenwood and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the Robertson family as they prepare for a Thanksgiving dinner to celebrate the harvest in the fall of 1841.

Early Life in Upper Canada

Author : Edwin C. Guillet
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487598033
Total Pages : 1019 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Early Life in Upper Canada written by Edwin C. Guillet and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1933-12-15 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there were abundant hardships, early life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful in many ways. However, despite important contributions to the social and economic history of Canada, few good, comprehensive accounts have been generally available. Early Life in Upper Canada, originally published in 1933, is by far the finest history yet compiled, and it is now being reprinted in order to make available to a new generation an important and engrossing description of this area of Canadian history. The author, a distinguished Canadian historian, has drawn on contemporary letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals, as well as consulting all the existing histories, and he has supplemented these researches with interviews with persons who had personal contacts with early life in the Province. Mr. Guillet has compiled a thorough, accurate and delightfully readable history, that brings vividly to life the early settlers and their experiences. This is in accordance with the author's profound desire to make the study of Canadian history a delight rather than a chore. He has not concealed the unpleasant aspects of pioneer life, nor does he attempt to glamorize its difficulties. There is a tendency at times to forget that the founders of Upper Canada include hundreds of thousands of men and women of many nationalities, and fur traders, lumbermen, and voyageurs, as well as settlers. Their contributions, too, are acknowledged and recorded here. This book is profusely illustrated, with drawings made, in many cases, by army cartographers, who were skilled creative artists as well. Their paintings, fortunately, have been better preserved than were written accounts of the times, and are accurate depictions of pioneer life. The extensive bibliography and carefully prepared index will make this work invaluable for historians as well as for general readers.

The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1897045018
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855 written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scots, some of Upper Canadas earliest pioneers, influenced its early development. This book charts the progress of Scottish settlement throughout the province.

Uppermost Canada

Author : R. Alan Douglas
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814328675
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Uppermost Canada written by R. Alan Douglas and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uppermost Canada examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century. The phrase "Uppermost Canada," denoting the western frontier of Upper Canada (modern Ontario), was applied to the Canadian shore of the Detroit River during the War of 1812 by a British officer, who attributed it to President James Madison. The Western District was one of the partly-judicial, partly-governmental municipal units combining contradictory arisocratic and democratic traditions into which the province was divided until 1850. With its substantial French-Canadian population and its veneer of British officialdom, in close proximity to a newly American outpost, the Western District was potentially the most unstable. Despite all however, Alan Douglas demonstrates that the Western District endured without apparent change longer than any of the others.

Rebellion

Author : Marianne Brandis
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889841758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Rebellion written by Marianne Brandis and published by Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Wheeler is a fourteen year-old who arrives in Toronto in the autumn of 1837 after crossing from England on a filthy and crowded immigrant ship. He has emigrated in company with his uncle's family, but, once in Upper Canada, he quarrels with his uncle and sets out on his own. Adam finds work in a paper mill at the village of Todmorden on the banks of the Don River. Adam soon learns that William Lyon Mackenzie is mounting a rebellion. When the uprising begins, he is drawn into the conflict both because his employer sends him to deliver paper to the rebel camp at Montgomery's Tavern, and also because his uncle joins Mackenzie's force. Among those Adam befriends are two teenage girls, Cornelia and Charlotte de Grassi. These historical figures, aged thirteen and fourteen at the time, served as spies and messengers for the government side during Mackenzie's Rebellion. Although this book is a work of fiction, it is solidly based on real history. The events of the 1837 Rebellion have been carefully researched and are presented as accurately as possible. Captain and Mrs de Grassi and their daughters, and several other characters, were real people and, improbable as it may seem, the girls' work as spies and messengers during the rebellion days is fully authenticated. When it comes to presenting human beings however, historical documents are usually uninformative. To bring the characters to life, the author has invented certain scenes and details, all of which she based carefully on what she learned about the de Grassi family, and on the life and circumstances of the time.

Pulpit, Press, and Politics

Author : Scott McLaren
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442619783
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Pulpit, Press, and Politics written by Scott McLaren and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American Methodist preachers first arrived in Upper Canada in the 1790s, they brought with them more than an alluring religious faith. They also brought saddlebags stuffed with books published by the New York Methodist Book Concern – North America’s first denominational publisher – to sell along their preaching circuits. Pulpit, Press, and Politics traces the expansion of this remarkable transnational market from its earliest days to the mid-nineteenth century, a period of intense religious struggle in Upper Canada marked by fiery revivals, political betrayals, and bitter church schisms. The Methodist Book Concern occupied a central place in all this conflict as it powerfully shaped and subverted the religious and political identities of Canadian Methodists, particularly in the wake of the American Revolution. The Concern bankrolled the bulk of Canadian Methodist preaching and missionary activities, enabled and constrained evangelistic efforts among the colony’s Native groups, and clouded Methodist dealings with the British Wesleyans and other religious competitors north of the border. Even more importantly, as Methodists went on to assume a preeminent place in Upper Canada’s religious, cultural, and educational life, their ongoing reliance on the Methodist Book Concern played a crucial role in opening the way for the lasting acceptance and widespread use of American books and periodicals across the region.

Transatlantic Upper Canada

Author : Kevin Hutchings
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228002656
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Upper Canada written by Kevin Hutchings and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. In the first detailed study of literary interactions between Indigenous people and colonial authorities in Upper Canada and Britain, Kevin Hutchings analyzes the period's key figures and the central role that romanticism, ecology, and environment played in their writings. Investigating the ties that bound Upper Canada and Great Britain together during the early nineteenth century, Transatlantic Upper Canada demonstrates the existence of a cosmopolitan culture whose implications for the land and its people are still felt today. The book examines the writings of Haudenosaunee leaders John Norton and John Brant and Anishinabeg authors Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Peter Jones, and George Copway, as well as European figures John Beverley Robinson, John Strachan, Anna Brownell Jameson, and Sir Francis Bond Head. Hutchings argues that, despite their cultural differences, many factors connected these writers, including shared literary interests, cross-Atlantic journeys, metropolitan experiences, mutual acquaintance, and engagement in ongoing dialogue over Indigenous territory and governance. A close examination of relationships between peoples and their understandings of land, Transatlantic Upper Canada creates a rich portrait of the nineteenth-century British Atlantic world and the cultural and environmental consequences of colonialism and resistance.

Whispers of War

Author : Kit Pearson
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780439988360
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Whispers of War written by Kit Pearson and published by Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1812, as rumours of a looming war become a reality, Susanna, her mother and sister are surviving as best they can while the men are fighting. As news of various battles reaches them, Susanna becomes even more concerned for the safety and well-being of her beloved brother and father. She is also torn between the loyalties of her best friend and her mother -- both Americans living in Upper Canada -- and her father's and brother's allegiance to General Brock and the King. But the night of the Battle of Queenston Heights, Susanna's main concern is for survival.

Soldiers of the King

Author : William Melville Gray
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Stoddart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of the King written by William Melville Gray and published by Erin, Ont. : Stoddart. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontario was known as Upper Canada from 1791-1841.

The Capacity to Judge

Author : Jeffrey L. McNairn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802043603
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Capacity to Judge written by Jeffrey L. McNairn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that voluntary associations and the press created a reading public capable of reasoning on matters of state, McNairn traces the emergence of 'public opinion' as a new form of authority in mid-19th century Upper Canada.

Index to the Upper Canada Land Books

Author : Ontario Genealogical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Index to the Upper Canada Land Books written by Ontario Genealogical Society and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Upper Canada Land Books [National Archives of Canada series RG 1, L1] record the minutes of the Executive Council of the Land Board which had authority over the granting and selling of crown lands in Upper Canada between 1787 and 1841. Settlers, military claimants, Loyalists, and others petitioned the Executive Council for grants of land, often giving personal information to support their claims. This index to the minutes lists all petitioners as well as surnames found within the petition itself ..."--Back cover, v. 3.

Men of Upper Canada

Author : Bruce S. Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780777901885
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Men of Upper Canada written by Bruce S. Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The returns ... are in the National Archives of Canada, scattered amongst other militia nominal rolls (RG 9, IB2, Vols. 29-31), but they have never been microfilmed and so must be consulted in Ottawa."--Introd.

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

Author : Geoffrey J. Matthews
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802042031
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Concise Historical Atlas of Canada written by Geoffrey J. Matthews and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distillation of sixty-seven of the best and most important plates from the original three volumes of the bestselling of the Historical Atlas of Canada.

At Home in Upper Canada

Author : Jeanne Minhinnick
Publisher : Stoddart
ISBN 13 : 9781550461565
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book At Home in Upper Canada written by Jeanne Minhinnick and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's foremost authority on Upper Canadian homes and their furnishings brings us an engaging portrait of the day-to-day life of pre-Confederation families. At Home in Upper Canada is a warm and vivid account of a way of life that has gone forever.

Adventures in Genealogy

Author : Norman Edgar Wright
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806345004
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Genealogy written by Norman Edgar Wright and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1994 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book takes the reader on a genealogist's odyssey and shows us how research is done by recounting three of the author's mostmemorable cases. While it's completely factual, Adventures in Genealogy reads like a collection of detective stories--complete with chance meetings in cemeteries, serendipitous phone calls, and not one but two murders. This is a book that should command the attention of all researchers and, especially, those who might benefit from observing a master genealogist at work.

Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada

Author : Elizabeth Jane Errington
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773561374
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada written by Elizabeth Jane Errington and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Errington argues that in order to appreciate the evolution of Upper Canadian beliefs, particularly the development of political ideology, it is necessary to understand the various and changing perceptions of the United States and of Great Britain held by different groups of colonial leaders. Colonial ideology inevitably evolved in response to changing domestic circumstances and to the colonists' knowledge of altering world affairs. It is clear, however, that from the arrival of the first loyalists in 1748 to the passage of the Naturalization Bill in 1828, the attitudes and beliefs of the Upper Canadian elite reflect the fact that the colony was a British- American community. Errington reveals that Upper Canada was never as anti-American as popular lore suggests, even in the midst of the War of 1812. By the mid 1820s, largely due to their conflicting views of Great Britain and the United States, Upper Canadians were irrevocably divided. The Tory administration argued that only by decreasing the influence of the United States, enforcing a conservative British mould on colonial society, and maintaining strong ties with the Empire could Upper Canada hope to survive. The forces of reform, on the other hand, asserted that Upper Canada was not and could not become a re-creation of Great Britain and that to deny its position in North America could only lead to internal dissent and eventual amalgamation with the United States. Errington's description of these early attempts to establish a unique Upper Canadian identity reveals the historical background of a dilemma which has yet to be resolved.