Ontario History articles from March 2006

Ontario History archives from March 2006

The impact of the Hudson's Bay Company on the creation of Treaty Number Nine (1).
March 22, 2006... Abstract In the summers of 1905/1906 the Dominion government entered into a treaty with the Cree and Ojibwa of northern Ontario. Known as Treaty Nine it encompassed a vast portion of the province. This treaty could not have been...

Western's war: a study of an Ontario Canadian Officers' Training Corps contingent, 1939-1945*.
March 22, 2006... Abstract The Second World War activities of the University of Western Ontario Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC) provide an ideal case study that examines the influence of military demands on academic requirements, explores the...

Orange-Canadian unionists and the Irish Home Rule crisis, 1912-1914.
March 22, 2006... Abstract In April 1912, the third Irish Home Rule Bill was introduced in the British House of Commons. The north of Ireland erupted with protests opposing Home Rule for Ireland, claiming it would mean "Rome Rule." Ulster Protestants were...

Archival sources: treasures from Ontario's Archives.(T. Eaton Company Ltd.'s donations)
March 22, 2006... T. Eaton Company Archives of Ontario F 229 In 2003 Sears Canada donated the remaining corporate records of the T. Eaton Company to the Archives of Ontario. For more than a century Eaton's was one of Canada's major retail operations...

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
March 22, 2006... Many of the fonds recently processed at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Archives are those of prominent Ontario psychiatrists who were involved in such important aspects of their profession as the development of new mental health...

From the Hamilton Public Library Archives.
March 22, 2006... Buchanan Papers The Buchanan Papers cover a variety of topics relating to the Buchanan clan in Scotland and in Canada. The collection consists mostly of business papers from the Canadian branch of the family, but there are some rare and...

Elgin County House of Industry/ Elgin Manor fonds (1876-1998): Elgin County Archives.
March 22, 2006... In 2001 and 2003, the records of the Elgin County House of Industry were transferred directly from Elgin Manor to the Elgin County Archives. More than a century of records such as registers of inmates and visitors, time books, physician's log...

Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Shaped by the West Wind Nature and History in Georgian Bay Claire Elizabeth Campbell. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. xx + 282 pp. $85.00 hardcover, ISBN 0-7748-1098-X. $29.95 softcover, ISBN 0-7748-1099-8. ...

Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Contact Zones Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past Edited by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. x + 308 pp. Illustrations. $85.00 hardcover. ISBN 0-7748-1135-8....

Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Ghost Empire How the French Almost Conquered North America By Philip Marchand. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2005. xvii+ 444 pp. Maps. $37.99 hardcover. ISBN 0-7710-5677-X. Philip Marchand's touching and personal pilgrimage to...

4Square: An introduction to the Sharon Temple National Historic Site, to the Children of Peace who Made it, and to their Place in the History of Canada Before Canada.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... 4Square An introduction to the Sharon Temple National Historic Site, to the Children of Peace who made it, and to their place in the history of Canada before Canada. By Mark Fram and Albert Schrauwers. Toronto: Coach House Books,...

Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la vapeur, 1850-1950.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la vapeur, 1850-1950. By Pierre Camu, with preface by Hugues Morrissette. Montreal: Editions Hurtubise HMH Ltee, 2005. 616 pp. $69.95 softcover. ISBN 2-89428-679-1. Developed as a sequel...

English Bloods in the Backwoods of Muskoka, 1878.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... English Bloods in the Backwoods of Muskoka, 1878 By Frederick de la Fosse. Edited, with notes and illustrations, by Scott D. Shipman. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2004, xiii + 207 pp. $24.95 softcover. ISBN 1-896219-96-9. Late in...

Images of a Century: The City of Niagara Falls, Canada, 1904-2004.(Beautiful Barrie: The City and its People, An Illustrated History of Barrie, Ontario )(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Images of a Century The City of Niagara Falls, Canada, 1904-2004 By City of Niagara Falls Centennial Book Committee. Niagara Falls, Ontario: City of Niagara Falls, 2004. viii + 368 pp. Illustrated. $35.00 hardcover. ISBN 0-973647-90-6....

Books Received.
March 22, 2006... Bird, Louis. Telling our Stories: Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005. 269 pp. $27.95 softcover. ISBN 1-55111-580-8. Cameron, Scott L. The Frances Smith: Palace Steamer of the Upper Great...