North America local history
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The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825While my mother was a servant in Glasgow she married a soldier. I have only a faint remembrance of my father, of a tall man in a red coat coming to see us in...
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The Young SeigneurThe Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-MakingThe chief aim of this book is the perhaps too bold oneto map out a future for the Canadian nation, which has been hitherto drifting without any plan. A lesser purpose of it is to make some of the...
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Twenty-Seven Years in Canada WestTwenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) No one can give an adequate view of the general life of a colonist, unless he has been one himself. Unless he has experienced all the various gradations of colonial...
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With the Harmony to LabradorWith the Harmony to Labrador - Notes of a visit to the Moravian mission stations on the north-east coast of LabradorIs an extensive triangular peninsula on the north-east coast of British North America, Lat. 50 to 62 N., Lon. 56 to 78 W.; bounded...
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Saint-Pierre & MiquelonSaint-Pierre & MiquelonCombien d'hommes est-il en Europe, voire en Amrique, parmi ceux mmes qui ont des prtentions un certain savoir, combien, dis-je, en est-il, qui ignorent jusqu'au nom de ces trois petites les perdues sur les ctes de Terre-Neuve, ce colosse dont elles sont...
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Lecture on the Aborigines of NewfoundlandLecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland - Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, at St. John's, Newfoundland, on Monday, 17th January, 1859Of the various theories advanced on the origin of the North American Indians, none has been so entirely satisfactory as to command a general...
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Recollections of Bytown and Its Old InhabitantsRecollections of Bytown and Its Old InhabitantsAs no book, small or greatgay or grave, witty or sublime, scientific, dramatic, poetic, tragic, historical, metaphysical, philosophical, polemical, wise or otherwisecan be considered complete, particularly at the beginning, without a preface; I have deemed it expedient that...
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The Manor House of LacolleThe Manor House of Lacolle - A description and historical sketch of the Manoir of the Seigniory The Manor House of the Seigniory of Lacolle or De Beaujeu is situated in a retired neighborhood, on the New York State border-line about four miles south-west...
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Les îles: Promenades dans le golfe Saint-LaurentLes îles: Promenades dans le golfe Saint-Laurent - Une partie de la Côte Nord, l'île aux Oeufs, l'Anticosti, l'île Saint-Paul, l'archipel de la MadeleineIl me semble encore que les choses que je vais vous raconter se passaient hier; et d'ici, je revois le quai...
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Aljaska en de Canada-spoorwegAljaska en de Canada-spoorweg - De Aarde en haar Volken, 189212 Juli 1890.Daar ben ik weder op den oceaan! Dezen morgen zijn we te Hvre in zee gestoken. t Is twaalf uur, de zee is mooi; de Normandie legt vlug hare zestien knoopen, ongeveer...
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OpusculesOpusculesANS les premiers jours de septembre, 1852, je m'embarquais sur la Doris, afin de visiter, pour la premire fois, les ctes dsertes et inhospitalires de l'le d'Anticosti. Peu leve, borde de rcifs et souvent couverte de brumes paisses, cette terre est fort dangereuse pour...
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Ranching for SylviaRanching for SylviaIt was evening of early summer. George Lansing sat by a window of the library at Brantholme. The house belonged to his cousin; and George, having lately reached it after traveling in haste from Norway, awaited the coming of Mrs. Sylvia Marston...
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The Copyright Question: A Letter to the Toronto Board of TradeThe Copyright Question: A Letter to the Toronto Board of TradeThe Council of the Board of Trade lately adopted a resolution asking that Canadian Legislation be passed, giving effect to the Copyright Bill proposed in 1895 by Mr. Hall Caine, "making it obligatory that...
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A New Hochelagan Burying-ground Discovered at Westmount on the Western Spur of Mount Royal, Montreal, July-September, 1898A New Hochelagan Burying-ground Discovered at Westmount on the Western Spur of Mount Royal, Montreal, July-September, 1898The above title is provisional as respects the term "Hochelagan." All those who are interested in the Indians of old Hochelaga, or in the Mohawks with whom they...
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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.BThe Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. - Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic TupperIn the early part of last...
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The IntriguersThe IntriguersOn a fine morning early in July Mrs. Keith sat with a companion, enjoying the sunshine, near the end of Dufferin Avenue, which, skirts the elevated ground above the city of Quebec. Behind her rose the Heights of Abraham where the dying Wolfe...
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Carmen's MessengerCarmen's MessengerIt was getting dark, and a keen wind blew across the ragged pines beside the track, when Jake Foster walked up and down the station at Gardner's Crossing in North Ontario. Winter was moving southwards fast across the wilderness that rolled back to...
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The Lure of the NorthThe Lure of the NorthDinner was nearly over at the big red hotel that stands high above the city of Quebec, and Thirlwell, sitting at one of the tables, abstractedly glanced about. The spacious room was filled with skilfully tempered light that glimmered on...
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The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf Or, Rescuing the Lost BalloonistsThe Outdoor Chums on the Gulf; Or, Rescuing the Lost Balloonists"Well, it would be a shame to keep you squirming on the anxious seat any longer, boys, and I'm going to take you into my confidence just as fast as I can. Sit down...
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Dangers on the Ice Off the Coast of LabradorDangers on the Ice Off the Coast of Labrador - With Some Interesting Particulars Respecting the Natives of that Country T he Moravian Missionaries on the coast of Labrador (a part of North America) for many years suffered much from the severity of the...
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