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BOOK - Emigration: The British Farmer's and Farm Labourer's Guide To Ontario (1880)
By "Issued by authority of the Government of Canada"
Published by Global Heritage Press
This book is a historical reprint of a nineteenth century publication (1880) that was produced for potential emigrants from the United Kingdom to Ontario, Canada.
Outstanding background information for those researching immigration and settlement in Canada during the last half of the nineteenth century. Topics include:
- Why should I emigrate?
- Whither Shall I Emigrate
- What Ontario Has to Offer
- Accessibity To Markets
- Ontario Counties - soil, products, industries, communications inforamtion listed by county
- Agricultural industry in Ontario - crops markets and comparisions to USA
- Personal experiences of farm labourers in Ontario
- Demand for farm labourers and domestic servants
- The Free (land) Grant Territory (including a fold out map)
- Game (hunting)
- Cost of farm impliments
- Cost of clothing
- Postal facilities
- Telegraphs
- Rate of interest
- Instructions to emigrants - outfit; luggage; on board ship; on arrival at Quebec; Money table.
- Canadian emigration agents in the United Kingdon
- British testimony to Ontario as an agricultural country
- Meteorological, temperature, etc...
The book provides a detailed if somewhat optomistic view of Ontario places, land grants, education, political organization, freedom of faith, medical facilities, administration of laws, etc to help prepare the potential emigrant for their decision of whether to emigrate to Ontario or not.
This reprint was originally published by C. Blacket Robinson, Toronto 1880
108 pgs; acid free paper; hard-cover; illus, map; ISBN 1-894378-43-1
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French & Native North American
Marriages & Genealogical Records Series,
Vol. 1 to Vol. 6
Author and compiler Paul Brunnell, a descendant of Hurons from Ontario and Quebec, has published his many years of French, Native, Mi'kmaq, and Metis research into the six volumes that you find here. In his own words Mr. Bunnell says......
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The Roman Catholic Parish
of "Our Lady of The Angels"
Moose Creek,Ontario Baptisms,
Marriages and Burials 1882-1925
NOW ON CD
The content is organized alphabetically by surname. There is also an index to help researchers find others who are mentioned in the transcriptions, such as witnesses, named relatives, etc.....
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Research Guide To
Loyalist Ancestors
(Updated and Revised)
This updated research aid lists most of the locations where United Empire Loyalist records may be found throughout the world, and.......
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The New Loyalist Index
Vol. 1 to Vol. 7
Author and compiler Paul Brunnell, UE has researched United Empire Loyalists for more than 30 years, publishing his findings into the seven volumes that.....
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Trimming Yankee Sails:
Pirates and Privateers
of New Brunswick
Pirates and privateers sailed from New Brunswick ports throughout the 19th century, but their exploits began in earnest during the War of 1812. Amid tales of battles at sea and fortunes lost and won......
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New Brunswick and the Navy:
Four Hundred Years
In 1881, the new Dominion of Canada chose New Brunswick as the base for its naval operations. This the story of New Brunswick's contribution to Canada's storied naval heritage......
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Family Tree Maker for Mac 2
(version 2012)
Makes organizing, researching and sharing your family history easier than ever, whether you're just getting started or already an expert........
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Methodist Obituaries
From The
Christian Guardian,
1891 to 1895
This 11th volume from D.A. McKenzie provides carefully transcribed obituaries for Methodist deaths across Canada with Ontario most heavily represented, Scroll down to Vol. 11 after clicking.......
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