Canadiana

Includes sections on the cheese industry of North Norwich, local churches, stick farms, and the village of Norwich itself. Lots of photos of local homes and businesses (including store interiors).

Some topics covered include Albert Bay, Ketchikan, Wrangel, Petersburg, Juneau, Skagway, White Pass, Carcross, Atlin, Miles Canyon, Whitehorse, Yukon River, Dawson, Klondike, Tanana, Nenana, Fairbanks, Ruby, Nulato, Andreafski, Old Hamilton, St. Michael, Nome, Pioneer Mining Company, gold, smelting, totem poles, glaciers, Russian Missions, Inuit peoples, dog racing, and reindeers.

Morley p. 26: covers Northumberland, Kent, & Gloucester counties of N.B. & the Gaspe Peninsula of Que. 17th cent. to date. Cooney (1800-1870) was a Methodist clergyman, journalist and author. Between 1829 and 1831 he wrote for the Chatham, NB Gleaner, and while there gathered notes for this, his best-known work. He covers geography and resources, “Indians,” French and British settlement.

Haliburton’s first literary effort, originally published in 1823, was long thought to have been written by Walter Bromley, founder of the Royal Acadian School where this was printed. This second edition may be pirated. A scarce volume. It provides information on climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, population, major cities and settlements, native tribes, agriculture, government and education. There are also chapters sketching the capture of Louisbourg in 1758 and the state of the province during the administration of Sir George Prevost, Sir John Sherbrooke, the Earl of Dalhousie and Sir James Kempt. The author was obviously seeking to repair the problem he states in the first line of the Preface: “In Great Britain, less is known of Nova Scotia than of any other Colony she possesses.”

Chronicles the religious revival inspired by itinerant Maritime preacher Henry Alline known as The Great Awakening.

The author visited Peterborough, Cobourg, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Detroit, New York, and Washington. Topics covered include Newfoundland dogs, the Plains of Abraham, First Nations, Niagara Falls, hunting, fishing, lumbering, The Smithsonian Institution, and Franklin’s Printing Press. Author also touches on fugitive slaves and the cotton industry.

Includes a section on the Archdeaconry of Muskoka.

Walpole Roland, a civil and mining engineer who lived in Port Arthur, lived a life of one incredible adventure after another. Before arriving in Canada, he served in military service and observed the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Crimea, was present at the Siege of Peking, and while in the United Stated fought for General Custer. At the age of 87, while investigating mining resources, he became lost in the wilds of Northern Ontario and survived for a month before being rescued. Subject include Northern Ontario, Nipigon Lake, Thunder Bay, Red Rock, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Manitou, surveying, Indian missions, missionaries, industry, public buildings, hotels, schools, churches, mills, docks, water-works, power, Fort William, agriculture, minerals, engineers, surveys, reports, townships, development, gold and silver mining, Arrow Lake, White Fish Lake, Silver Mountain, the Beaver Mountain Silver Mines, Huronian, Jackfish Lake, Rainy River District, Lake of the Woods, Heron Bay, Silver Creek, and Crown Point.

15 Dutch families settled the marsh in 1934, followed by many Dutch farmers, developing the area into a prosperous vegetable district.

This first selection of artifacts from the collections of the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies represents twenty-three traditional societies.

Cruttenden corresponded with many clients in the British Colonies, including the Americas and the British West Indies. His letters provide much information on the pharmacy of the time. Also includes information on smuggling practices.

Author’s account of her life in business (buying and selling lace, as well as fashion design), her travels through Europe, and of her hobbies, which include bridge, golf and riding. Incl. very short memoir of Fenian Raids.

One of B.C.’s forgotten heroes, Moberly (1832-1915) experienced the Cariboo Road, snow-covered mountain peaks, meetings with a grizzly bear, Sir John A. MacDonald and Brigham Young, railway building, a fall through the ice while playing “shinny” (hockey), onions for supper, fragile canoes, and life in early Vancouver – and lived to tell the tale. One the more prosaic side, Moberly was a civil engineer who laid out the site for New Westminster in 1859 as well as surveying several roads and trails throughout B.C.

Canada as it was in a reign of William IV. Includes a history of BNA up to the time of publication, with a discussion of geographical boundaries, natural history, as well as individual sections on Newfoundland, P.E.I., Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Canada (Ontario and Quebec). TPL 1721.

Throughout he repeatedly complains about the “villainous management” in Canadian hotels, as well as offers much advice on era travel, including how to get your baggage checked properly on a C.P.R. train. There is much comparison of English and Canadian manners and customs, with notably remarks on Canadian settlers and First Nations inhabitants. Author also records a dreaded night outside of Port Hammond, devoting an entire chapter to the experience titled, “Mosquito Time.” There is also much fishing and hunting, including salmon and trout out West and shooting Big-Horn near Glacier House, British Columbia. His depictions of Muskoka are excellent.

In Canada First (1871), Foster described a Canadian national identity forged out of the process of nation-building, particularly Canadians’ continuing confrontation with an inhospitable northern environment. Pride in their accomplishments and a belief in their destiny would give Canadians a sense of purpose before the forces of national disunity and dismemberment. – The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Includes information on towns and cities along the rail routes.

Subjects include Giovanni Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, colonization, 1st Nations, Samuel de Champlain, Laval, Talon, Paladins, Le Moynes, Louis de Buade, the Ohio Valley, Acadia, Louisbourg, the Plains of Abraham, and the seigneurial system.

‘Revisions’ copy sent from one author to the other with penned changes throughout. With typed letter signed by Davidson to Kerr discussing the revisions ‘most of which are trivia and an indication, I fear, of a picayune mind’. Signed by Kerr on title page.

An evocatively written collection of essays on major Canadian cities. Impressive for making London, Ontario sound romantic.