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Diaries & First-Hand Accounts Pioneers and Settlement, Canada Genealogy & History 
BOOK - Across the Waters: Ontario Immigrants' Experiences, 1820-1850By Frances Hoffman and Ryan Taylor. Across the Waters is an assembly of the first-hand written accounts of 150 individual immigrants, skillfully bridged by authors Frances Hoffman and Ryan Taylor, to tell the fascinating story of what it was like to leave a familiar homeland to pioneer in the virgin forests of early Ontario. By allowing the personal writings of the early settlers to guide us through their experiences, we come to better appreciate the process of settlement. By examining the various stages of emigration, such as preparing for the journey, ocean crossings, obtaining and clearing land, building a shelter - then a house, and living in the clearings, we gain a clearer understanding of nineteenth century emigrant experience. Hardcover ISBN 1-894378-00-8; Softcover ISBN 1-894378-01-6 More information
BOOK - Authentic Letters From Upper Canada (Ontario, Canada)By Rev. Thomas Radcliff. Originally published in 1833, This book contains clear accounts of setting up a homestead in the woods, complete with lists of necessary supplies and expenses to be encountered by the new settler. Topics covered in the letters include descriptions of the hardships of crossing the Atlantic, the roughness of the settlement, and other experiences of settling in the "new country". Of interest to everyone who studies early Ontario settlement, are candid descriptions of Upper Canada (Ontario) as the settlers found it in 1831-1833, the people, and its institutions. ISBN: 978-1-897466-04-1 More information
BOOK - My Dearest Wife - The Private and Public Lives of James David Edgar and Matilda Ridout EdgarBy Maud J. McLean and Robert M. Stamp. The private and public lives of James David Edgar and Matilda Ridout Edgar symbolized the increasingly complex nature of Toronto society as older generations gradually gave way to a new generation of “outsiders” seeking fame and prominence. IISBN: 9781896219363 More information
BOOK - Much To Be Done, Private Life in Ontario from Victorian DiariesBy Frances Hoffman, Ryan Taylor. Diaries, with some contributions from letters, newspapers and reminiscences, provide a fresh and contemporary viewpoint which promotes a better understanding of our ancestors in their time. ISBN 978-1-55002-772-3 More Information
BOOK - Annie's LettersEdited by: Roger B. Flint and David A Flint Annie wrote of everyday events in letters sent home to her family in the village of Abbots Langley in Hertforshire. They give a flavor of life in Canada and American in 1937 and 1938. ISBN 0-9538513-0-3 More information
BOOK - The Diary of a Country Clergyman, 1848-1851, James Reid.Edited by M.E. Reisner. This book reveals James Reid, a 19th Century clergyman (Anglican) in Firelightsburg, Quebec, to be a man of complexity. Through this remarkable document, village routines and intrigues, as well as Reid's friends and clerical colleagues come vividly to life. 'Impressive as autobiography, as social history, as political and theological history, Reisner's contributions are extraordinary'. ISBN 0-7735-2000-7 More Information
BOOK - Roughing it in the Bush By Susanna Moodie. This is the first hand account of Susanna's family's struggles to establish themselves in Upper Canada (Ontario) during the first half of the ninteenth century. It is a highly detailed portrait of frontier conditions in Upper Canada. This unabridged text continues to justify the international sensation if caused when it was first published in 1852. ISBN 978-0-7710-3492-3 More information
BOOK - Life in the Clearings vs the Bush By Susanna Moodie. The sequel to Roughing it in the Bush, Susanna portrays society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. The author turns from an examination of pioneer life in the bush to a portrayal of the relatively sophisticated society that was established in Upper Canada during the mid ninteenth century. ISBN 0-7710-9976-2 More information
BOOK - Voyages, Short Narratives of Susanna Moodie Edited by John Thurston. Susanna Moodie is, of course, best known for her books Roughing it in The Bush and Life in the Clearings, which are largely comprised of short sketches that she had previously published. What is not widely known, however is the Mrs. Moodie had a long and prolific literary career in which short sketches and tales were among her favoured genres. This book offers a selection of these narratives, unavailable in print since the nineteenth century but essential to an understanding of Susanna Moodie's work. ISBN: 0776603264 More information
BOOK - Susanna's Quill, Based on the Life of Susanna MoodieBy: Julie Johnston. Susanna is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Susanna Moodie, writer and pioneer, by award-winning author Julie Johnston. The story takes us into Susanna’s genteel English childhood, through her humorous teenage attempts at writing, growing to her burgeoning independence, marriage to Dunbar Moodie, and their decision to emigrate from England. To the Moodies, Canada was the answer to their prayers. . ISBN: 0887767060 More information
BOOK - English Immigrant Voices: Labourer's Letters From Upper Canada in the 1830s By: Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines and Mary McDougall Maude. Collected from published, archival, and private sources, the letters of the Petworth immigrants place the writers in the context of their times and challenge the image that English immigrants to Upper Canada were onlt officers and gentlewomen. ISBN 0-7735-2035-X More information
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