Excerpt from United Empire Loyalists In 1840, fifty years after the L wilderness, impoverished, to lay great Province of Ontario, Mrs. Moody wrote her book, Roughing it in the Bush. It ran through several editions. In the preface she stated that her object was the hope of deterring well-educated people from settling in Ontario on account of the climate and the hardship. Mrs. Jameson about the same time arrived in Toronto, and in her Winter Studies and Summer Rambles says of Toronto: I did not expect much, but for this I ...
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Excerpt from United Empire Loyalists In 1840, fifty years after the L wilderness, impoverished, to lay great Province of Ontario, Mrs. Moody wrote her book, Roughing it in the Bush. It ran through several editions. In the preface she stated that her object was the hope of deterring well-educated people from settling in Ontario on account of the climate and the hardship. Mrs. Jameson about the same time arrived in Toronto, and in her Winter Studies and Summer Rambles says of Toronto: I did not expect much, but for this I was not prepared. I went to bed last night in tears. The cold is so intense that the ink freezes as I write, and my fingers stiffen round my pen. A glass of water by my bedside, within a few feet of the hearth, heaped with logs of oak and maple, and kept burning all night long, is a solid mass of ice in the morning. At the same period Sir Francis Head published his book on Canada, called The Emigrant. He says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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