Roy, James A. (James Alexander), 1884-1973.

Kingston, the King's town / by James A. Roy ; foreword by W.A. Mackintosh.

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1952.

xvii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

"In the town where John A. Macdonald grew up and fought for recognition there also walked John Graves Simcoe, Joseph Brant, Alexander Mackenzie, Sydenham, Bagot, Bishop Strachan, Richard Cartwright and a host of distinguished visitors like Charles Dicken from England and the continent, Here we meet on amiable terms the great and the ordinary people who figured so prominently in Canada's coming of age. From its origin as a French trading post and garrison through the turbulent years of Indian warfare, the anxieties of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, we follow the transformation of Kingston into a cathedral city, a university town, and into the modern commercial hub of today. The reader is guided through the times of cholera epidemics, public hangings, regimental dinners, sedate quadrilles, cure-all advertisements, political squabbles, through two world wars into a "city of spires and domes...and public buildings of chaste Georgian design." The British forces under Colonel Bradstreet captured the town in 1758; from the n until late into the nineteenth century there flowed into the King's Town many of the diverse elements out of which the Canadian fabric has been woven--Yankee traders, discharged military and naval personnel, thousands of United Empire Loyalists, Royalist emigres from the Napoleonic wars, Scottish and Irish immigrants--all depicted against a background of stirring national events. Pathetic and often cruel moments in the lives of everyday men and women, as well as the adventurous and courageous happenings, move swiftly across the pages. It is the deft combination of these many strands without dry details, added to a lively appreciation of personalities and events, that makes KINGSTON The King's Town especially pleasurable reading for everyone."--Publisher.

Kingston (Ont.) History.
Ontario Kingston

History

Location: Library main canada 10276
Call No.: PO11716 CAN; ID:87-B2599
Status: Available