Up the Great North Road: The Story of an Ontario Colonization Road - Softcover

Macfie, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550464213 ISBN 13: 9781550464214

Verlag: Boston Mills Press, 2004

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Book by Macfie John

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It's not an official history, but rather a very well-written look at ordinary people taking a chance on winning a subsistence living from a hard land that made them fight with their lives for every small gain.--Janet Arnett"Canadian Book Review Annual" (01/01/2005) A pleasurable read for anyone who enjoys reading history on a small scale... well written and generously illustrated with old photos.-- (08/23/2004) A great historical book about an interesting part of Ontario. You don't have to travel this road or have a cottage nearby to enjoy this book. Anyone who like reading history books will enjoy this one.-- (08/19/2004)

Reseña del editor:

A lively and entertaining look at early Ontario history. This is the illustrated history of the Great North Road. In 1870 the author's great-great uncle James Macfie, a middle-aged bachelor of Scottish birth, crossed Georgian Bay from Collingwood, Ontario, to the fledgling village of Parry Sound, where he found work with a crew clearing a wagon road into the hinterland. Ten years later, the author's grandfather Frank Macfie followed his Uncle James up that road, forging the second link in a chain of events that led eventually to this book. The path these pioneers followed was known as the Great North Road (also called the Great Northern Colonization Road), one of a score or more colonization routes that, beginning in the 1850s, the Ontario government pushed into the rock-ribbed southern flank of the Precambrian Shield to admit agricultural settlers. It was Man against Nature in its most primary form -- bareknuckled roadbuilders and homesteaders attempting to transform a rugged landscape containing the most ancient rock on the continent. Most of the land proved unsuitable for crops, but a great many families settled along the road nonetheless, and they and their descendants created some of the province's most proud and picturesque communities along Georgian Bay. This fascinating book is filled with stories and photographs the reveal a little-known aspect of Ontario's history.

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• Verlag: Boston Mills Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1550464213
• ISBN 13: 9781550464214
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160