The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman : Volume One / Edwin Guillet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillet, Edwin, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Ontario.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Ontario.

Ontario--History.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this lavishly illustrated new book, the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and other famous histories of pioneer days, relates the story of the Canadian farm and farmer from the primitive to the machine age. Farm life and farm processes are pictured in fascinating detail, and Mr. Guillet quotes generously from books, newspapers, letters and hitherto unpublished archives material, using the words of those who actually witnessed the life of other days -- the pioneers themselves, or the more observant of the numerous travellers who visited Canada during the period. The 450 illustrations contained in the two volumes of this work include many never before reproduced. A detailed list of contents and a full index enable the reader to find readily any topic of pioneer life to which he wishes to refer.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. INDIAN AND FRENCH AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER II. THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS

CHAPTER III. EMIGRATION ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

CHAPTER IV. ASCENDING THE ST. LAWRENCE

CHAPTER V. THE PIONEER HOME

CHAPTER VI. FOOD AND CLOTHING

CHAPTER VII. FARM IMPLEMENTS AND TOOLS

CHAPTER VIII. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

CHAPTER IX. DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES

CHAPTER X. TRAVEL AND COMMUNICATION

CHAPTER XI. INNS AND TAVERNS

CHAPTER XII. THE PIONEER WOMAN

CHAPTER XIII. AMUSEMENT AND SOCIAL LIFE

CHAPTER XIV. PIONEER SOCIETIES

CHAPTER XV. EDUCATION AND CULTURAL LIFE

CHAPTER XVI. RELIGIOUS LIFE

CHAPTER XVII. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SETTLERS

CHAPTER XVIII. CHOOSING A LOT

CHAPTER XIX. CLEARING THE LAND

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781487598044

1487598041

9781487596323

1487596324

OCLC:

1091666313