The Pioneers of Old Ontario (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Pioneers of Old Ontario (Classic Reprint) written by William Loe Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pioneers of Old Ontario In the matter of location, the new-comers seem to have been allowed a wide range of choice. Lands, in what are now designated the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, and Ontario, were offered for settlement. Coming from New York and other agricultural states, many of the im migrants chose Ontario, settling for the most part within easy distance of the Great Lakes waterway. With their coming, the pioneer period of agri culture in Ontario may be said to have begun. Nearly all of those who came at first were of humble origin, of honest purpose, and almost destitute of means. For two or three years, owing to crop failures and lack of equipment, they received some aid from the Government. A considerable proportion of these first settlers were Loyalists, and mingling with them were discharged soldiers, many of them Hessians, who took up land in preference to returning to Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.