Life in Canada

Getting hold of an Ontario farm--How a man without a capital may succeed--Superiority of farming to a mechanical trade--A man with $10,000 can have more enjoyment in Ontario tha...

The War of 1812--Canadian feeling with regard to it--Intolerance of the Family Compact--Roger Conant arrested and fined--March of defenders to York--Roger Conant hides his speci...

The Canadian Revolution of 1837-38--Causes that led to it--Searching of Daniel Conant’s house--Tyrannous misrule of the Family Compact--A fugitive farmer--A visitor from the Uni...

City and country life compared--No aristocracy in Canada--Long winter evenings--Social evenings--The bashful swain--Popular literature of the day--A comfortable winter day at ho...

Ontario in June--Snake fences--Road-work--Alsike clover fields--A natural grazing country--Barley and marrowfat peas--Ontario in July--Barley in full head--Ontario is a garden--...

Among the doings of the first parliament of Upper Canada there is none on which we can look back with greater satisfaction than the abolition of slavery in this country. Persons...

Roger Conant--His position in Massachusetts--Remained in the United States two years without being molested--Atrocities committed by “Butler’s Rangers”--Comes to Upper Canada--R...

Turning to ordinary affairs, we find that at this date our Government helped the settler to exterminate wolves by paying a bounty of about $6 for each wolf head produced before...

Some natural history notes--Our feathered pets--“The poor Canada bird”--The Canadian mocking-bird--The black squirrel--The red squirrel--The katydid and cricket--A rural graveya...

Instances of success in Ontario--A thrifty wood-chopper turns cattle dealer--Possesses land and money--Two brothers from Ireland; their mercantile success--The record of thirty...

Book farmers come to us now and again. These are usually persons from Britain, possessing some means, but not sufficient to make them gentlemen at home. They have had no particu...

A manufactory of base coin in the Province of Quebec--A clever penman--Incident at a trial--The gang of forgers broken up--“Stump-tail money”--Calves or land?--Ashbridge’s hotel...

Realizing the fact that the greater part of beautiful Lake Ontario belongs to us, and, likewise, that the most densely populated portion of our province is about its borders, a...

The reign of winter on the lake shore, with its hummocks of broken ice, seems longer than it really is. Those who observe it day by day are glad when March comes, with its lengt...

In my readings from time to time I come across many remarks by foreign and other authors, that I feel are belittling to our country. If we only took to the self-laudation practi...

It has occurred to many of our young Canadians that there are very few positions attainable to us as Canadians really worth striving for. We are so peculiarly situated, that we...

No one can look back over the years covered by this volume of reminiscences and observations of Canadian history and life without being struck by the changes that have already t...

Manitoba and Ontario compared--Some instances from real life--Ontario compared with Michigan--With Germany--“Canada as a Winter Resort”--Inexpediency of ice-palaces and the like...

There are some few persons in every community who have always a weather-eye open for a likely horse which they may see passing by. These men are usually free-handed, and know ho...

Unfinished character of many things on this continent--Old Country roads--Differing aspects of farms--Moving from the old log-house to the palatial residence--Landlord and tenan...

One of the familiar proceedings of the days of early spring in the long ago time, when the pioneers were busy with clearing the primeval forests of Ontario, was the maple sugar...

Colonel Talbot--His slanderous utterances with regard to Canadians--The beaver--Salmon in Canadian streams--U. E. Loyalists have to take the oath of allegiance--Titles of land i...

Daniel Conant, as a vessel owner on Lake Ontario for many years, felt keenly the great need for proper harbors and docks for loading and unloading his vessels. Up to the close o...

Our fathers spent their winter evenings and days of winter storms in working at the flax. It was the universal custom for each householder in our fathers’ time to raise a piece...

Georgian Bay, all that part of Ontario west of that line contains the most alluvial land and the richest of any in the world, with the fewest breaks and the least waste land. My...

The War of 1812--Canadian feeling with regard to it--Intolerance of the Family Compact--Roger Conant arrested and fined--March of Defenders to York--Roger Conant hides his speci...

Getting hold of an Ontario farm--How a man without capital may succeed--Superiority of farming to a mechanical trade--A man with $10,000 can have more enjoyment in Ontario than...

The Canadian Revolution of 1837-38--Causes that led to it--Searching of Daniel Conant’s house--Tyrannous misrule of the Family Compact--A fugitive farmer--A visitor from the Uni...

City and country life compared--No aristocracy in Canada--Long winter evenings--Social evenings--The bashful swain--Popular literature of the day--A comfortable winter day at ho...

Manitoba and Ontario compared--Some instances from real life--Ontario compared with Michigan--With Germany--“Canada as a winter resort”--Inexpediency of ice-palaces and the like...

Roger Conant--His position in Massachusetts--Remained in the United States two years without being molested--Atrocities committed by “Butler’s Rangers”--Comes to Upper Canada--R...

Instances of success in Ontario--A thrifty wood-chopper turns cattle dealer--Possesses land and money--Two brothers from Ireland; their mercantile success--The record of thirty...

A manufactory of base coin in the Province of Quebec--A clever penman--Incident at a trial--The gang of forgers broken up--“Stump-tail money”--Calves or land? Ashbridge’s hotel,...

Ontario in June--Snake fences--Road-work--Alsike clover fields--A natural grazing country--Barley and marrowfat peas--Ontario in July--Barley in full head--Ontario is a garden--...

Colonel Talbot--His slanderous utterances with regard to Canadians--The beaver--Salmon in Canadian streams--U. E. Loyalists have to take the oath of allegiance--Titles of land i...

Some natural history notes--Our feathered pets--“The poor Canada bird”--The Canadian mocking-bird--The black squirrel--The red squirrel--The katydid and cricket--A rural graveya...

Unfinished character of many things on this continent--Old Country roads--Differing aspects of farms--Moving from the old log-house to the palatial residence--Landlord and tenan...

Book farmers and their ways--Some Englishmen lack adaptiveness--Doctoring sick sheep by the book--Failures in farming--Young Englishmen sent out to try life in Canada--The sport...