Main entry:

Craig, Gerald M., editor.

Title & Author:

Early travellers in the Canadas, 1791-1867. Selected and edited with an introd.

Publication:

Toronto, Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1955.

Description:

xxxvi, 300 pages illustrations 23 cm.

Series:

Pioneer books

Notes:
"Extracts from the writings of thirty visitors to British North America, 1791-1867."
Includes bibliographical references.
A traveller's impressions in 1792-93 -- The St. Lawrence Valley in the 1790's / Isaac Weld -- French Canadian character and customs 1806-08 / John Lambert -- Upper Canada during the war of 1812 / Michael Smith -- The Rapids of the St. Lawrence and the City of Montreal, 1818 / John M. Duncan -- The Pioneer Society of Upper Canada after the War of 1812 / John Howison -- Farming in Upper Canada in the 1820's / Joseph Pickering -- Bytown and the Rideau Canal in the 1830's / Captain James E. Alexander ; Professor Charles Daubeny -- The Advantages of Upper Canada over the American States / Isaac Fidler -- A Journey from Quebec to the Maritimes in 1832 / Lieutenant E.T. Coke -- A Critical View of Upper Canada in the 1830's / Patrick Shirreff -- An English Gentlewoman in Upper Canada [Ontario, 1836-37] / Anna Jameson -- The Bright and Dark Sides of a Settler's Life / William Thomson
A High Church View of Canada in the 1840's / John Robert Godley -- A Satirical Comment on Canadian Political Affiliations / C.H.C. -- Hunting for moose in the 1840's / G.D. Warburton -- The Canadian temper at the start of the free trade era / James Dixon -- A Soldier's Appraisal of French Canada in the 1850's / Lieutenant-Colonel B.W.A. Sleigh -- A German Visits the Canadian Backwoods / J.G. Kohl -- Lumbering and farming near Peterborough in the 1850's [logging] / C.R. Weld -- Educational and Intellectual Progress in the 1850's [education] / Isabella Bishop -- Quebec, Hamilton and London in 1858 / Charles MacKay -- The Visit of the Prince of Wales 1860 / J.G.D. Engleheart -- Politics, society and amusements about 1860 / Two Brothers -- Canadian Railways and Canadian Manners 1862 / Anthony Trollope -- Economic Growth at Montreal in the 1860's / S.P. Day -- The 'Levelling Principle' in Canadian Life / G.T. Borrett

Summary:

"Extracts from the writings of thirty visitors of British North America, 1791-1867."

Subject:

Travelers Canada.
Voyageurs Canada.
Travel.
Travelers.
Canada Description and travel.
Canada History 1763-1867.
Canada Descriptions et voyages.
Canada.

Added entries:

Pioneer books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 126749
Call No.: ID F1013.C79 CAN; ID:97-B1160
Status: Available