Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer
Author: Samuel Thompson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-02-13
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 3732629937
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Author: Samuel Thompson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-02-13
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 3732629937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original.
Author: Samuel Thompson
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 402
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Published: 2011
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Frederick Hunter
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Wye Smith
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2008-11-10
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1550028049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Wye Smith, Upper Canadian poet and publisher, provided his unique perspective on pioneer life in this compilation of anecdotes from his experiences.
Author: Samuel Thompson
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: F.R. (Hamish) Berchem
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1996-04-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1770704256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canada’s defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily loathed, Simcoe had his Queen’s Rangers survey and develop the route from Toronto to present-day Holland Landing, and laid out lots for settlement. Even the trusty Rangers, as one surveyor complained in 1799, needed little excuse to lay down tools and vanish "to carouse upon St. George’s day." Handsomely illustrated with the author’s drawings, and painstakingly researched, this book captures the not-so-distant days when muddy Yonge Street was the backbone of pioneer Ontario.
Author: Richard J. Gwyn
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 067931475X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBut it wasn't easy. The wily Macdonald faced constant crises throughout these years, from Louis Riel's two rebellions through to the Pacific Scandal that almost undid his government and his quest to find the spine of the nation: the railroad that would link east to west. Gwyn paints a superb portrait of Canada and its leaders through these formative years and also delves deep to show us Macdonald the man, as he marries for the second time, deals with the birth of a disabled child, and the assassination of his close friend Darcy McGee, and wrestles with whether Riel should hang."--pub. desc. (v.2)
Author: Kent Monkman
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2023-11-07
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0771061234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island is a genre-demolishing work of genius, the imagined history of a legendary figure through which profound truths emerge—a deeply Cree and gloriously queer understanding of our shared world, its past, its present, and its possibilities. Volume One, which covers the period from the creation of the universe to the confederation of Canada, follows Miss Chief as she moves through time, from a complex lived experience of Cree cosmology to the arrival of European settlers, many of whom will be familiar to students of history. An open-hearted being, she tries to live among those settlers, and guide them to a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of all beings and the world itself. As their numbers grow, though, so does conflict, and Miss Chief begins to understand that the challenges posed by the hordes of newly arrived Europeans will mean ever greater danger for her, her people, and, by extension, all of the world she cherishes. Blending history, fiction, and memoir in bold new ways, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle are unlike anything published before. And in their power to reshape our shared understanding, they promise to change the way we see everything that lies ahead.