Letters from Muskoka

Letters from Muskoka

Letters from MuskokaIn laying before the public a sketch of our Bush experiences during the first year...
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Letters from Muskoka

Letters from Muskoka

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Letters from Muskoka

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Author: King, Charles Gerrard
Format: eBook
Language: English

Letters from Muskoka

In laying before the public a sketch of our Bush experiences during the first year after our arrival in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, I desire to state the reasons which prompted us to such an imprudent step as emigration, without even the moderate capital necessary for any one who would start with the slightest chance of success. The Franco-German War in 1870 was the means of breaking up our[vi] happy home in France, which, with one short interval, had been the shelter of my family and myself during fifteen years of widowhood. The commencement of the war found us living in the outskirts of St. Pierre-ls-Calais, a suburb of Calais, and a busy place, full of lace factories. Our house and grounds, quite open to the country at the back, fronted the canal which communicates with the sea at Calais. When the war had made some progress, and the German army appeared to be steadily advancing through France, we found ourselves in a most unpleasant dilemmain fact, literally between fire and water! The civic authorities made known that, in case of the approach of a German army, it was their fixed intention to cut the sluices, and to lay the adjacent country under water for a distance of ten miles, and to a depth[vii] of seven feet. Our large, rambling, convenient old mansion, which shook with every gale of wind, and had no cellarage nor secure foundation of any kind, we felt would surely be submerged. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 52972
Author: King, Charles Gerrard
Release Date: Sep 3, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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