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Murray, Florence B. (editor) (foreword by John P. Robarts): MUSKOKA AND HALIBURTON 1615 - 1875, Toronto University of Toronto Press - The Champlain Society 1963
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(cxiv) 445 pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps. Some chipping on the corners and around the edges of the dustjacket; price clipped; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with eight line drawings and fourteen black and white plates. The Chapters are: Introduction: Travellers and Missionaries on Georgian Bay and the Severn River 1615 - 1823; Exploration of the Waterways of the Interior 1819 - 1837; The Indian in the Muskoka and Haliburton Region; Surveys for Settlement; The Colonization Roads; The Beginnings of Agricultural Settlement; Lumber Fur and Gold; Transportation; Communities and Institutions; and The First Tourists. TRAVELLERS AND MISSIONARIES ON GEORGIAN BAY AND THE SEVERN RIVER 1615 - 1823: Samuel de Champlain on Georgian Bay 1615; Gabriel Sagard at an Algonkin Feast in 1624; Father Jerome Lalemant's Report on the Mission of Sainte Elizabeth 1623 - 1624; Lalement's Report on the Mission of the Holy Ghost May 15, 1645; Father Paul Ragueneau's Report on Algonkin Missions 1645; Ragueneau's Report on Algonkin Missions 1648; Ragueneau's Account of the Mission of the Holy Ghost 1649 - 1650; La Salle on the Severn River and Georgian Bay 1680; Baron de Lahontan's Proposed Fort on the Severn Route 1703; Robert Mathews to Lieutenant Colonel Mason Bolton May 19 1780; From a Memorandum Book Borrowed of M. Hare 1780; Benjamin Frobisher to Henry Hamilton May 2, 1785; Lord Dorchester's Instructions to Captain Gother Mann Commanding Engineer May 29, 1788; John Graves Simcoe to Alured Clarke May 31, 1793; Alexander McDonell's Journal of Simcoe's Trip to Georgian Bay 1793; Captain Williams Owen's Exploration of the Severn in 1815; Henry Bayfield to Commissioner Robert Barrie Octorber 20, 1820; Lieutenant Portlock's Remarks on the River Severn 1819; Dr J. J. Bigsby's Description of Georgian Bay 1813. EXPLORATION OF THE WATERWAYS OF THE INTERIOR 1819 - 1837: Lieutenant J. P. Catty's Report to His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland on a Water Route between Lake Simcoe and the Ottawa October 1, 1819; Copy of Memorandum Addressed by the Commission of which Major-General Sir James Smyth is President to Colonel Elias Durnford, Commanding Royal Engineer in the Canadas July 27, 1825; Extracts from Smyth's Report on Water Communication September 9, 1825; Smyth to General Gother Mann November 16, 1825; Lieutenant Henry Briscoe to Colonel Elias Durnford May 14, 1826; Captain Samuel Romilly to the Officers Appointed for Particular Surveys August 10, 1826; Lieutenants W. B. Marlow and William Smith to Colonel J. R. Wright Commanding Royal Engineer in Upper Canada on Survey of Black River September 22, 1826; Briscoe to Wright October 16, 1826; Briscoe's Report of a Survey from Lake Simcoe to the Ottawa October 16, 1826; Smyth to General Gother Mann December 28, 1826; Duke of Wellington - Minute on Reports of Surveys January 10, 1827; Smyth to General Gother Mann February 2, 1827; Fitzroy Somerset to General Gother Mann February 10, 1827; Wright's Instructions to Officers for Further Surveys August 24; 1827; Briscoe to Wright October 14, 1827; Lieutenant John Walpole to Wright November 12, 1827; Walpole's Report of Survey from Talbot River to the Madawaska November 1827; Wright to Colonel Elias Durnford November 17, 1827; Colonel Elias Durnford to Colonel Mann November 27, 1827; Smyth to General Mann April 24, 1828; Lieutenant Colonel John By to Colonel Elias Durnford March 16, 1829; Charles Shirreff's Observations on the Advantages of a Canal from the Ottawa to Lake Huron with Information Collected Respecting its Practicability January 1829; By to Sir James Kempt May 9, 1829; Alexander Shirreff's Exploration from the Ottawa River to Georgian Bay 1829; House of Assembly Address Requesting Exploration of Lands North of Lake Huron January 4, 1834; Colonel William Rowan to Lieutenant John Carthew July 14, 1835; Selections from F. H. Baddeley's Exploring Report 1835; An Act to Provide for a Survey of the Ottawa River and the Country Bordering on it, together with the Country and Waters Lying Between that River and Lake Huron March 4, 1837; David Thompson to John Macaulay May 30, 1837; Baddeley to Macaulay May 31, 1837; Baddeley to Macaulay July 19, 1837; and Excerpts from David Thompson's Journal of Occurrences from Lake Huron to the Ottawa River 1837. THE INDIAN IN THE MUSKOKA AND HALIBURTON REGION: John Collins' Memorandum on Indian Purchase August 9 1785; D. W. Smith to Alexander Aitkin September 12, 1794; Severn River Purchase Certified by J. B. Rousseau May 21, 1795; Peter Russell to Simcoe December 31, 1796; Peter Russell to Robert Prescott September 25, 1797; Indian Surrender of Parts of Haliburton and Muskoka November 5, 1818; H. C. Darling's Report to Lord Dalhousie 1828; Petition of the Mississaugas January 27, 1829; Indian Chiefs to Sir John Colborne September 15, 1830; Colborne to R. W. Hay December 15, 1831; John Carthew's Meeting with Indians on Lake Rosseau, September 1835; T. G. Anderson to Colborne September 24, 1835; Replies by Anderson to Questions on the Indians of the Newcastle District 1837; Sir Francis Bond Head to Lord Glenelg August 15, 1837; Gerald Alley to S. P. Jarvis December 30, 1838; Andrew Borland to Alley January 30, 1839; Chiefs of the Narrows Indians to Jarvis July 1, 1839; Rama, Snake Island and Coldwater Indians to Sir Charles Bagot May 26, 1842; The Robinson Treaty September 9, 1850; The Chippewas in 1858; W. R. Bartlett to Chief Yellowhead for the Miskoko Indians August 4, 1859; Bartlett to James Begahmigabow Acting Chief of Muskoka, Care of William Simpson, Penetanguishene October 10, 1860; Vernon B. Wadsworth's Reminiscences of Indians in Muskoka and Haliburton 1860 - 1864; Colonel J. S. Dennis to P. M. Vankoughnet February 21, 1862; Bartlett to William Spragge Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs July 11, 1862; Bartlett to Indian Chiefs and Warriors of Rama and Snake Island January 22, 1863; Death of Yellowhead Reported to Bartlett February 1, 1864; Bartlett to James Dallas February 11, 1864; Copy of Yellowhead's Will September 20, 1861; James W. Bridgland to Commissioner of Crown Lands Alexander Campbell August 7, 1865. Surveys for Settlement; The Colonization Roads: The Government and the Roads; Major Roads of Muskoka and Haliburton: The Muskoka Road; The Parry Sound Road; The Bobcaygeon Road; The Burleigh Road; The Peterson Road; The Monck Road; The Beginnings of Agricultural Settlement: Proposed Land Companies of the 1830s; The Opening of Muskoka and Haliburton; The Settlement of Muskoka; Muskoka's Critics and Defenders; The Settlement of Haliburton; The Canadian Land and Emigration Company; Lumber Fur and Gold: Lumbering in Muskoka; Lumbering in Haliburton; Fur Trapping and Trading; Rumours of Gold and Other Minerals; Transportation: Stages; Boats; Canals and Locks; Railways for Muskoka; Railways for Haliburton; Communties and Institutions: The Establishment of Local and District Government; Politics and Elections; Principal Early Villages; The Churches; The Schools; The First Tourists: McCabe's Tavern Opened in Gravenhurst 1861; Thomas M. Robinson to James Bain June 24, 1862; Robinson to Bain July 16, 1862; Excerpt from Bain's Journal of the Muskoka Expedition August 1864; Up the Muskokas and Down the Trent 1865; Pratt's Tourist Hotel August 26, 1870; The Ontario Government Visit to Muskoka September 14, 1870; Charles Marshall's Visit September 14, 1870; Tourist Attractions June 30, 1871; Canadian Press Association in Muskoka July 16, 1872; and Visit of the Governor General July 27, 1874; followed by a bibliography and an index. Scans are available for all books. First Edition Very Good- Hard Cover 8vo

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Huron Valley Group Members Staff; Cornish, Bob (editor); Lawrence, Charlotte (editor); Smith, Vince (editor): Favored Outings of the Huron Valley Sierra, USA Jennings Press, Incorporated 1986
ISBN: 0931781035 Fine

185 pages. Describes outings enjoyed by members of the Sierra Club's Huron Valley Group, an eclectic group whose members typically savor outings of several kinds. One weekend's backpacker may be next weekend's canoeist, and on to skiing (most often cross country) in the winter. Light wear. Unmarked. Very nice copy. No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

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Canadian Geographic (ed. by David Maclellan with Enid Byford et al): Canadian Geographic: February/March 1982, Volume 102, Number 1, Ottawa: Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 1982

Paper bound, Vol. 102, No. 1. Fine copy. 94pp. 255 grams. Note: we have over 200 issues of Canadian Geographic in stock; contact us directly for your orders! This issue includes: Prairie grasslands preserved in latest park by Wayne Lynch; Ottawa also is our high-tech capital by Keri Sweetman; Robert Legget: man of so many parts by Betty Baird; Lake Huron's North Channel: boating at its best by James Beck; The shape of our land: 12-page pictorial; China and Canada exchange science exhibitions by Dorothy Sangster; Talking to the whales in Trinity Bay by Lyn Hancock; Val d'Or enjoys its role on road to James Bay by Ian Allaby; Antarctic vs Arctic: polar contrasts by Thomas Smith. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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James Fenimore Cooper. The Deerslayer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series). New York, New York, U.S.A.: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
1593082118 Clean, tight and unmarked. Book Description ?Live by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.? -Natty Bumppo, The Deerslayer One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper?s Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppo?s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time. Set in the 1740?s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppo?known as Deerslayer?and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutter?s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tom?s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them. One of the earliest novels to be considered truly ?American," The Deerslayer is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance. About the Author Bruce L. R. Smith is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad. Excerpt. ? Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From Bruce L. R. Smith?s Introduction to The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper?s literary reputation has undergone striking vicissitudes over the years. Hailed in his lifetime (1789?1851) as America?s first great novelist and lionized throughout the Western world, he fell into the literary doldrums at the end of the nineteenth century (in his own country at least) and languished there for many years. So complete was his fall that he became almost an object of ridicule among critics and literary commissioners. Later generations found it hard to imagine that he had once been an icon in the American literary canon. More recently, however, there has been a revival of interest in Cooper and a reconsideration of his literary reputation. His death in Cooperstown on September 14, 1851, and a memorial service held the next month in New York City brought tributes from Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Henry Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, and other leading American men of letters. In Europe, Thackeray, Balzac, Goethe, Scott, Lafayette, Carlyle, Sand, and Sue were among the many admirers of Cooper?s writings. So were, later, Joseph Conrad, who paid tribute in particular to Cooper?s seafaring works, and D. H. Lawrence, who was so inspired by Cooper?s treatment of the frontier that he came to spend several years living in the American West. Cooper was probably even more popular in Europe than he was in his own country, and he earned much of the money he made as America?s first successful professional writer from overseas sales of his works. A controversialist, Cooper provoked unease from his countrymen as well as veneration. His popularity waned after his return to America in 1833 from a seven-year absence spent traveling in Europe; upon his return, he criticized the materialism and crassness he saw in America that had changed for the worse. He was not afraid to join in political fights and to hit back at enemies?he became something of a public scold in his later years, and he emulated his father?s recourse to the courts to redress wrongs. He stirred the ire of Whig newspaper publishers who had always distrusted him and disliked, in particular, his novels Homeward Bound (1838) and Home as Found (1838). He was variously assailed at different times for being too Jacksonian and hostile to authority, and for being too aristocratic and class conscious. It is doubtful, however, whether Cooper really felt comfortable with any political party, and his political ideas certainly did not add up to a coherent political philosophy. He was nominally a Jackson Democrat but had a strong distrust of populist sentiments and of demagogues who stirred up the uneducated masses. Although a charming and gregarious man in his youth, Cooper came to be almost a recluse in later years and at times displayed a gift for making enemies. Many of the attacks on Cooper, though, were libelous, for he won the suits he instituted. Cooper was wedded to his upstate New York region but was also a cosmopolitan who traveled widely; he was a romantic spinner of tales but also a realist who closely observed social mores, manners, and class status even in his novels set in the wilderness. Cooper was an optimist but one with a paranoid streak and a dark side. He lived mostly in the company of women but wrote mostly about men, male friendships, and heroes who broke free of or who never knew the bonds of domesticity. Cooper was as hard a man to understand for his contemporaries as he is for us now. Was he a reactionary or a man ahead of his times, an apologist for white America or a champion of Native Americans? Did he affirm the conquest of the wilderness or was he an early ecologist? As Robert Emmet Long comments, ?Two centuries after his birth, he remains an American enigma? (James Fenimore Cooper, p. 13; see ?For Further Reading?). Yet for all of the controversy his life stirred, Cooper?s literary reputation remained largely intact until the end of the nineteenth century. He was, indeed, a cultural icon in a broad sense. His fiction redefined the past for the country, invented the idea of the Western frontier, and gave Americans a mythic sense of themselves and their destiny. He was a patron of the visual arts. Cooper?s writings stimulated interest in American history and fostered the professional writing of history, even though his novels often subordinated historical reality to archetype and myth. His interest in the Navy was genuine and was grounded in firsthand experience, and he was familiar with many of the personages he wrote about in The History of the Navy of the United States of America (1839), which was a classic study of its kind. Cooper?s friend George Bancroft, the distinguished Harvard historian, interpreted the American Revolution in terms similar to the story lines and subtexts of Cooper?s novels dealing with the revolution, and he patterned his style of narrative history writing after Cooper?s narrative techniques. Moreover, Cooper did much to fashion and to expand the popular audience for his novels (and for the writers who followed him). His works were issued and reissued after his death..

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