Main entry:

Leung, Felicity L.

Title & Author:

Grist and flour mills in Ontario : from millstones to rollers, 1780s-1880s / Felicity L. Leung.

Publication:

Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Environment Canada, 1981.

Description:

293 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Series:

History and archaeology, 0225-0101 ; 53

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-284).
Part I. Old process or fast reduction mills, 1782 -- Government mills -- The move for private ownership of mill sites -- Governor Simcoe's influence on the flour-milling industry -- Some problems establishing early mills -- Method and technology of grist and flour mills -- Summary -- Part II. The automatic mill of Oliver Evans, 1795 -- The genius of Oliver Evans -- The introduction of automatic milling to Upper Canada -- Summary -- Part III. Improvements to automatic old process mills, 1800-1860s -- The growth of the flour-milling industry -- Government encouragement -- Mill architecture -- Waterpower plants -- Millwrights -- Millers and mill owners -- The automatic fast reduction process of milling -- Grain varieties -- Grain cleaning and drying -- Millstones -- Flour bolts -- Legislation related to flour milling -- Summary -- Part IV. The new process of gradual reduction, 1863 -- The introduction of gradual reduction to Ontario -- The improvements of John Brown of Waterloo County, 1863 -- The new process of Edmund and Nicholas Lacroix in Minnesota, 1870 -- Grain and methods of preparing it for milling -- Grain cleaning -- Millstones of the new process -- Purifiers -- Flour bolting for the new process -- Flour during the period of the new process -- Summary -- Part V. Roller milling in Ontario, 1875 -- Diversity of roller-milling systems -- The Snider Pioneer roller mills -- The All-Roller system of E.W.B. Snider -- Roller-mill patents -- Purifiers -- Bolt machines -- Grain -- Grain cleaning -- Roller flour -- Dominion Millers' Association.

ISBN:

0660907879 (pbk.)
9780660907871 (pbk.)

Subject:

Flour mills Ontario History.
Gristmills Ontario History.
Grain Milling Ontario History.
Moulins à farine Ontario Histoire.
Céréales Mouture Ontario Histoire.
Flour mills.
Grain Milling.
Gristmills.
Ontario.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

History and archaeology ; 53.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 181789
Call No.: ID 9526 TS2135.C22.O5 CAN; ID:85-B15535
Status: Available