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Another country, another life : calumny, love, and the secrets of Isaac Jelfs / J. Patrick Boyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyer, J. Patrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Newspaper editors--Ontario--Muskoka (District municipality)--Biography.
- Newspaper editors.
- Judges--Ontario--Muskoka (District municipality)--Biography.
- Judges.
- Town clerks--Ontario--Bracebridge--Biography.
- Town clerks.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Ontario--Muskoka (District municipality).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Law clerks--Great Britain--Biography.
- Law clerks.
- Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)--Biography.
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality).
- Boyer, J. Patrick.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many hard lives, his escape from each wrapped in deep secrecy. In 1869 he reached Toronto and started his new life with his new wife and his new name. His great-grandson follows that journey, revealing Jelfs' well-hidden tracks and the reasons for his double life.
- Contents:
- Escape from New York
- On the Path of the Law
- Calumny in Stratford
- Hannah Boyer's Plight
- Crucible of War
- America's Promise
- New York Double Life
- Canada Promises Another Life
- Homesteaders in a New Country
- First Muskoka Winter
- Opening the Frontier
- Moneyless in Muskoka
- Northern Advocates
- An Editor's Life
- Paper Wars
- Birth of a Village
- Movin' in from the Bush
- A Quickening Village Pace
- Powers of the Pen
- A Patriot's Refuge
- Upholding the Rule of Law
- Bound Up in Farming
- Muskoka's Magnetism
- Belated Exoneration
- Life Must Go On
- The View from Magistrate's Bench
- James Boyer's Last Escapes
- Unrequited Love
- The Dutiful Son
- Free and Unshackled
- Exeunt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781299319059
- 129931905X
- 9781459708419
- 1459708415
- OCLC:
- 841908713
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