A Guide Book Containing Information for Intending Settlers, with Illustrations
Author : Canada. Department of Agriculture
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Canada
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Author : Canada. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Canada
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Author : Canada. Department of Agriculture
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Canada
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Author : Donna E. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2013-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1459708067
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 : Public Archives Canada
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Archives
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Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Canada
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"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Author : Canada. Parliament
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Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Canada
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"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Voyages and travels
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Author : William St. Clair Tisdall
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Panjabi language
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Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
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Page : 956 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Douglas Brymner
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Archives
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