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Scugog Carrying Place : a frontier pathway / by Grant Karcich.
Author
Karcich, Grant
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Toronto : Dundurn, [2013]
©2013
Description
263 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
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Available Online
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Firestone Library - Stacks
F1059.S38 K37 2013
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Subject(s)
Ojibwa Indians
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Ontario, South Central
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History
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Ontario, South Central
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Scugog Carrying Place (Ont.)
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Indigenous Studies
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Editor
Gibson, Jane
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Summary note
From the 1790s to the 1850s, traces the story of Scugog Carrying Place, the ancient aboriginal trails connecting Lake Ontario with Lakes Scugog and Simcoe and the Kawartha lakes.
Notes
"Editor: Jane Gibson"--Title page verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-255) and index.
Contents
1 Early Description 19
Early Surveys 23
Pedlar's Description of the Trail 27
Jones's Eastern Extension 33
2 Iroquois and Mississauga on the Trail 37
Arrival of the Mississauga 39
Huron in Southern Ontario 44
Ontario Iroquoian Prehistoric Sites 47
Iroquois in Southern Ontario 55
3 The Search for Cabane de Plomb 57
French and English Traders on Lake Ontario 63
The Trading Post 66
4 Yankees on the Trail 71
Wilson and His Neighbours 72
Fur Traders and Farmers 77
The Sharp Murder 80
5 Preachers on the Trail 87
6 Expanding European Settlement 101
Farewell Corners and Toad Hollow 102
The Settlement of South Oshawa 104
(The Hollow/Gibbs Mills) Early Days of Oshawa (Kerr's Creek/Skae's Corners) 107
The Naming of Oshawa 112
7 Settlers Migrate Northward 115
The Northern Part of Whitby Township 116
Settling Reach Township 118
On to Brock Township 120
Settling Thorah Township 122
8 Marginalization of the First Nations 127
9 Growth of Communities in Whitby Township 137
Port Oshawa (Sydenham Harbour) 138
Harmony (Farewell Corners) 145
Industrialization of Oshawa 147
Emergence of Columbus (English' Corners) 154
Raglan (O'Boyle's Corners/Newtown) 156
10 Villages Further North Along the Trail 159
Prince Albert (Dayton's Corners) 159
Port Perry (Scugog Village) 160
Seagrave (Nonquon) 155
Sunderland (Jones's Corners) 157
Cannington (McCaskill's Mills) 167
Beaverton (Milton) 271
11 Death and Temperance on the Trail 177
Life Expectancy and Disease 177
The Temperance Movement 185
12 The Legacy of the Trail 193
Min-ce-nan-quash 193
Gifford Hill and Wilson's Homestead 195
Forgotten Burial Grounds 204
Historical Plaques 207.
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ISBN
9781459707504 ((pbk.))
1459707508
LCCN
2013375508
OCLC
788290987
Other standard number
40022328837
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