Ontario History articles from September 2005

Ontario History archives from September 2005

Upper Canadians and their guns: an exploration via country store accounts (1808-61) (1).
September 22, 2005... Abstract The gun is an essential part of our images of pioneering and pioneer manliness. We picture the pioneer family surrounded by forest, its men and boys using guns for protection from threatening predators, for sport, and for hunting,...

Grave and nave: an architecture of cemeteries and sanctuaries in rural Ontario.
September 22, 2005... Abstract: Cultural landscapes are architectural creations, which is to say that all mankind's scratchings on the earth surface have a style as well as a substance. In this essay we explore the design of Christian church sites and burying...

Spaces and places to play: the formation of a municipal parks system in London, Ontario, 1867-1914.
September 22, 2005... Abstract How a municipal parks system formed in London following Confederation provides insight into the struggle that existed between public recreation and those who championed its provision, and political leaders concerned with the...

Glengarry and the wider world: six lives.(Dorothy Dumbrille, Dr. James Grant, Mrs. Mary Ishikawa, J.A. McDougald, Claude Nunney, Alexander Lillie Smith)
September 22, 2005... Resume Les six biographies que nous presentons aujourd'hui sont extraites du Dictionary of Glengarry Biography auquel nous travaillons depuis de nombreuses annees, et qui comportera pres de 1 200 entrees de longueurs variables. Elles ont...

Archival sources: treasures from Ontario's Archives.(Lumbers family papers)
September 22, 2005... Lumbers Family Papers (Harriett Stabback Series) City of Toronto Archives (fonds 93) The Lumbers family fonds is a unique accumulation of financial records, correspondence, and photographs that documents four generations of...

Champlain: The Birth of French America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Champlain: The Birth of French America Edited by Raymonde Litalien and Denis Vaugeois; translated by Kathe Roth. Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press and Les editions du Septentrion, 2004. 400 pp. Illustrated. $89.00 hardcover. ISBN...

Tecumseh's Bones.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Tecumseh's Bones By Guy St-Denis. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xviii + 286 pp. Illustrations. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN 0-7735-2843-1. A few months ago I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to...

Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Michael Power: the Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier. By Mark G. McGowan. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xvii + 382 pp. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN 0-7735-2914-4. On 1 October...

Drawing on the Land: The New World Travel Diaries and Watercolours of Millicent Mary Chaplin, 1838-1842.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Drawing on the Land: The New World Travel Diaries and Watercolours of Millicent Mary Chaplin, 1838-1842. Edited, with an Introduction, by Jim Burant. Manotick, Ontario: Penumbra Press, 2004.166 pp. $39.95 softcover. ISBN 1-894131-61-4. ...

The Canada Company and the Huron Tract 1826-1853: Personalities, Profits and Politics.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Canada Company and the Huron Tract 1826-1853: Personalities, Profits and Politics. By Robert C. Lee. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2004 303 pp. Illustrations. $26.95 softcover. ISBN 1-896219-94-2. The origin of the Canada...

To the Outskirts of Habitable Creation: Americans and Canadians transported to Tasmania in the 1840s.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... To the Outskirts of Habitable Creation: Americans and Canadians transported to Tasmania in the 1840s. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By Stuart D. Scott. New York: Universe Inc., 2004. 490 pp. Illustrations. US$30.95 softcover. ISBN...

Life along the Opeongo Line: The Story of a Canadian Colonization Road.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Life along the Opeongo Line: the Story of a Canadian Colonization Road. By Joan Finnigan. Manotick, Ontario: Penumbra Press, 2004. xvi + 271 pp. Illustrations. $40.00 softcover. ISBN 1-894131-63-0. In the 1850s the dramatic net-like...

A Theatre near You: 150 Years of Going to the Show in Ottawa-Gatineau.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Theatre near You: 150 Years of Going to the Show in Ottawa-Gatineau. By Alain Miguelez. Manotick, Ontario: Penumbra Press, 2004. 370 pp. Illustrations. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN 1-894131-38-X. Reading Alain Miguelez's A Theatre near...

Books received.
September 22, 2005... Bryce, Robert B. Canada and the Cost of World War II: the International Operations of Canada's Department of Finance, 1939-1947. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xxiv + 392 pp. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN 0-7735-2938-1....