Toronto During the French Regime : A History of the Toronto Region From Brule to Simcoe, 1615-1793 / Percy J. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Percy J., Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rocheblave, Philippe François de Rastel, chevalier de, époque 1748-1786.

Rocheblave, Philippe François de Rastel.

Canada--History--To 1763 (New France).

Canada.

Toronto (Ont.)--History.

Toronto (Ont.).

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

[2d edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The story of the Toronto Carrying-place, and its rôle during the century and a half of French rule before the arrival of Simcoe, is the story of a dramatic and picturesque period in Toronto's past. Sometimes intimately, sometimes remotely, the Toronto Carrying-place was touched by the struggle for the control of the continent waged so long between the French on the St. Lawrence and the Dutch and English on the Hudson. The history of the region is a fascinating one, and the first full account of it, down to the founding of York in 1793, was written by Percy James Robinson in 1934, at the time of the centenary of the city of Toronto. This valuable record, unavailable for many years, is reprinted now with the addition of later material by the author. Its reappearance will be welcomed by all those interested in the early history of Canada. Toronto during the French Régime owes its beginning to the author's great interest in the historian Du Creux (whose Historiae Canadensis he had translated from the Latin), to his studies of the early maps of the region, and to his knowledge of the Huron language. He was intrigued, too, with the etymology of the name "Toronto," and he clarifies here the origin of the name, and describes how it travelled south from Huronia to the Toronto area.

Contents:

I. Shadows on the street

II. The gateway of the Huron country, 1615-1663

III. Hennepin and La Salle at the carrying-place, 1663-1683

IV. From the return of La Salle to the de Callieres treaty with the Iroquois, 1683-1701

V. From the founding of Detroit to the building of Fort Toronto: 1701-1750. The Magasin Royal at Toronto: 1720-1730

VI. Fort Toronto or Fort Rouille, 1750-1759

VII. From the fall of Niagara to the end of the conspiracy of Pontiac, 1759-1764

VIII. From the conspiracy of Pontiac to the Quebec Act, 1764-1774

IX. From the Quebec Act to the founding of York, 1774-1793

X. The founding of York and the last phase of the carrying-place, 1793

XI. Retracing the trail

XII. Jean Baptiste Rousseau

Appendix

I. The etymology of "Toronto"

II. Cartography of the Toronto region from 1600-1816

III. Philippe Francois de Rastel de Rocheblave

IV. Iroquois place-names on the north shore of Lake Ontario.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8450-4

OCLC:

1129164625