The Yonge Street story, 1793-1860 : an account from letters, diaries, and newspapers / F.R. Berchem.

Main entry:

Berchem, F. R., 1931-

Title & Author:

The Yonge Street story, 1793-1860 : an account from letters, diaries, and newspapers / F.R. Berchem.

Publication:

Description:

192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, ©1977.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-189) and index.

Summary:

Annotation This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized byThe Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canada's defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily loathed, Simcoe had his Queen's Rangers survey and develop the route from Toronto to present-day Holland Landing, and laid out lots for settlement. Even the trusty Rangers, as one surveyor complained in 1799, needed little excuse to lay down tools and vanish "to carouse upon St. George's day."Handsomely illustrated with the author's drawings, and painstakingly researched, this book captures the not-so-distant days when muddy Yonge Street was the backbone of pioneer Ontario.

ISBN:

1896219136 (paperback)
9781896219134 (paperback)

Subject:

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.) History.
Toronto (Ont.) History.
Ontario History 1791-1841.
Ontario History 1841-1867.
Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.) Histoire.
Toronto (Ont.) Histoire.
Ontario Histoire 1791-1841.
Ontario Histoire 1841-1867.
Ontario Toronto.
Ontario Toronto Yonge Street.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 193690
Call No.: ID FC3097.67 CAN; ID:97-B4736
Status: Available

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