The diary of Sophia Macnab. Edited by Charles Ambrose Carter and Thomas Melville Bailey.

Main entry:

Macnab, Sophia Mary, 1832-1917.

Title & Author:

The diary of Sophia Macnab. Edited by Charles Ambrose Carter and Thomas Melville Bailey.

Publication:

Hamilton, Ont., W.L. Griffin, 1968.

Description:

72 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portraits 23 cm

Notes:
On cover: The diary of Sophia Macnab written at Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, 1846, age 13.

Summary:

"The daily life of the Macnab family in Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, Canada West (now Ontario) from January 17th to July 8th, 1846, is brought vividly to life in the charmingly written Journal of Sophia Macnab. Sophia was born at Hamilton on the 5th day of July, 1832, and died in England in 1917. She began her Journal at the age of thirteen and it is the most detailed document so far discovered of the life of her father Sir Allan Napier Macnab, who was born at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) February 19th, 1798, and died in Dundurn Castle on August 9th, 1862."--Preface.

Subject:

Macnab, Sophia Mary, 1832-1917.
Macnab, Sophia Mary, 1832-1917 Diaries.
Macnab
Children Ontario Hamilton Diaries.
Children.
Hamilton (Ont.) Biography.
Ontario Hamilton.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Diaries.

Added entries:

Carter, Charles Ambrose, editor.
Bailey, Thomas Melville, 1912- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 15453
Call No.: PO13634 CAN; ID:87-B15783
Status: Available

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