History of the Settlement of Upper Canada

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Author

Canniff, William, 1830-1910

Title

History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté

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Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

F1001: North America local history: Canada

Subject

Quinte, Bay of (Ont.)

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54554

Release Date

April 16, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HISTORY OF THE Settlement of Upper Canada, (ONTARIO,) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BAY QUINTÉ.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.ERRATA.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION. — CHAPTER I. A SKETCH OF FRANCO-CANADIAN HISTORY. — CHAPTER II.
6. 6.DIVISION I. THE REBELLION OF 1776—​THE THIRTEEN COLONIES. — CHAPTER III. — VIRGINIA. — NEW YORK. — NEW JERSEY. — MASSACHUSETTS. — NEW HAMPSHIRE. — DELAWARE. — CONNECTICUT. — MARYLAND. — RHODE ISLAND. — NORTH CAROLINA. — SOUTH CAROLINA. — PENNSYLVANIA. — GEORGIA. — NEW ENGLAND. — CHAPTER IV. — CHAPTER V. — THE MOTIVES. — MOTIVES OF THE LOYALISTS. — CHAPTER VI. — THE RESULT. — CHAPTER VII. — THE COMBATANTS—​BURGOYNE. — SIR JOHN JOHNSON. — THE LOYAL COMBATANTS. — THE QUEEN’S RANGERS. — FERGUSON’S RANGERS. — THE HESSIANS. — CHAPTER VIII. — THE SIX NATIONS. — THE MOHAWKS AS CANADIANS. — CHAPTER IX. — INDIVIDUAL COMBATANTS. — CHAPTER X. — INDIVIDUAL COMBATANTS—​CONTINUED. — CHAPTER XI.
7. 7.DIVISION II. TRAVELING IN EARLY TIMES—​ORIGINAL ROUTES. — CHAPTER XII. — CHAPTER XIII. — TRAVELING BY CANOE. — BATTEAUX—​SCHENECTADY BOATS—​DURHAM BOATS. — TRAVELING TO YORK AND QUEENSTON. — CHAPTER XIV. — THE FIRST SAILING VESSELS.
8. 8.DIVISION III. THE LOYALISTS AS PIONEERS—​THE ORIGINAL SURVEY. — CHAPTER XV. — THE FIRST SURVEYS IN UPPER CANADA. — SURVEYING AROUND BAY QUINTÉ. — CHAPTER XVI. — CONCESSION OF LANDS TO THE FRENCH. — CONCESSION OF LANDS TO THE LOYALISTS. — FAMILY LANDS AND ADDITIONAL BOUNTY. — CERTIFICATE OF THE ACTING SURVEYOR. — CHAPTER XVII. — THE SETTLEMENT OF UPPER CANADA. — THE FIRST SETTLERS. — CLEARING THE LAND.
9. 9.DIVISION IV. THE FIRST YEARS OF UPPER CANADA. — CHAPTER XVIII. — MODE OF PROCURING FOOD. — MAPLE SUGAR. — CHAPTER XIX. — THE FIRST FLOURING MILLS. — CHAPTER XX. — CLOTHING—​FURNITURE—​DOMESTIC AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS. — VARIOUS HARDSHIPS. — CHAPTER XXI. — INTRODUCTION OF STOCK AND BEASTS OF BURDEN. — CHAPTER XXII. — THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. — CHAPTER XXIII. — “ODE TO CANADA.” — THE FIRST NATIVES OF UPPER CANADA. — MARRYING IN EARLY TIMES. — CHAPTER XXIV. — THE EARLY BURYING PLACES UPON THE BAY QUINTÉ.
10. 10.DIVISION V. THE EARLY CLERGYMEN AND CHURCHES. — CHAPTER XXV. — THE FIRST FRENCH MISSIONARIES. — CHAPTER XXVI. — THE FIRST PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN IN AMERICA. — REV. JOHN OGILVIE, D.D. — CHAPTER XXVII. — MEMOIRS OF DR. STUART CONTINUED—​“FATHER OF THE UPPER CANADA CHURCH.” — CHAPTER XXVIII. — THE FIRST EPISCOPALIANS, CONTINUED—​PRESBYTERIANS, BAPTISTS, AND LUTHERANS. — BAPTISTS—​WYNER, TURNER, HOLTS, WIEM. — THE LUTHERANS—​SCHWERDFEGER, MYERS, WEANT. — CHAPTER XXIX. — BISHOP STRACHAN—​REV. MR. MCDOWELL AND REV. MR. SMART. — CHAPTER XXX. — THE EARLY CLERGYMEN AND CHURCHES OF UPPER CANADA.—​THE QUAKERS.—​NOXEN, LEAVENS, HICKS, SAND. — CHAPTER XXXI. — THE FIRST WESLEYAN METHODISTS IN CANADA. — CHAPTER XXXIa. — SOME ACCOUNT OF HENRY RYAN. — CHAPTER XXXII. — THE ROMAN CATHOLICS—​BISHOP MCDONNELL. — CHAPTER XXXIII. — SABBATH SCHOOLS. — CHAPTER XXXIV. — THE SIX NATIONS—​CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY. — CHAPTER XXXV. — BUILDING A NEW CHURCH. — CHAPTER XXXVI. — THE MISSISSAUGA INDIANS—​THEIR CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY.
11. 11.DIVISION VI EARLY EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. — CHAPTER XXXVII. — THE FIRST SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS. — CHAPTER XXXVIII. — HIGHER EDUCATION—​FOUNDATION OF UNIVERSITIES—​STRACHAN—​BIDWELL. — ACADEMY AT ERNESTTOWN—​BIDWELL. — CHAPTER XXXIX. — HIGHER EDUCATION, CONTINUED. — UPPER CANADA ACADEMY—​VICTORIA COLLEGE. — BOOKS, LIBRARIES—​PRINTING. — CHAPTER XL. — THE FIRST NEWSPAPERS IN THE WORLD. — CHAPTER XLI. — NEWSPAPERS—​CONTINUED.
12. 12.DIVISION VII. THE TERRITORY OF UPPER CANADA—​THE BAY QUINTÉ. — CHAPTER XLII. — CHAMPLAIN’S DISCOVERY OF THE BAY QUINTÉ, AND LAKE ONTARIO. — PRE-HISTORIC CANADA. — THE ABORIGINES OF UPPER CANADA. — CHAPTER XLIII. — THE NAME OF BAY QUINTÉ—​THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF UPPER CANADA IN 1783. — CHAPTER XLIV. — BAY QUINTÉ CONTINUED—​ITS APPEARANCE. — CHAPTER XLV. — THE SEVERAL BAYS. — CHAPTER XLVa. — THE ISLANDS OF BAY QUINTÉ. — THE CARRYING PLACE.
13. 13.DIVISION VIII. THE FIRST TEN TOWNSHIPS IN THE MIDLAND DISTRICT. — CHAPTER XLVI. — HISTORY OF THE FRENCH OCCUPATION. — CHAPTER XLVII. — SETTLEMENT AT CATARAQUI BY THE LOYALISTS. — CHAPTER XLVIII. — THE FIRST TOWNSHIP—​EVENTS IN ITS EARLY HISTORY. — MODERN KINGSTON. — CHAPTER XLIX. — THE SECOND TOWNSHIP—​ERNESTTOWN—​BATH. — THE THIRD TOWNSHIP—​FREDERICKSBURGH. — CHAPTER L. — SETTLEMENT OF ADOLPHUSTOWN. — CHAPTER LI. — THE FIFTH TOWNSHIP—​MARYSBURGH. — CHAPTER LII. — SIXTH TOWNSHIP—​SOPHIASBURGH, NORTHPORT, DEMERESTVILLE. — AMELIASBURGH. — CHAPTER LIII. — PENINSULA OF PRINCE EDWARD. — HALLOWELL. — HILLIER. — PICTON. — CHAPTER LIV. — THE EIGHTH TOWNSHIP—​SIDNEY—​ITS SETTLEMENT. — CHAPTER LV. — THE NINTH TOWN—​THURLOW. — BELLEVILLE. — CHAPTER LVI. — THE TENTH TOWNSHIP—​RICHMOND.
14. 14.DIVISION IX. THE EARLY GOVERNMENT OF UPPER CANADA. — CHAPTER LVII. — UPPER CANADA FROM 1783 TO 1792—​THE GOVERNMENT, MILITARY AND CIVIL. — CHAPTER LVIII. — ORGANIZATION OF THE UPPER CANADA GOVERNMENT BY SIMCOE, 1792. — CHAPTER LIX. — THE GOVERNORS OF UPPER CANADA, FROM SIMCOE TO LORD SYDENHAM. — CHAPTER LX. — THE CAPITALS OF UPPER CANADA. — CHAPTER LXI. — THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. — THE EARLY ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
15. 15.DIVISION X. THE EARLY MILITIA OF UPPER CANADA. — CHAPTER LXII. — THE MILITIA. — CHAPTER LXIII. — THE WAR OF 1812. — THE MILITIAMAN’S REWARD. — CHAPTER LXIV. — THE SIX NATIONS AS CANADIANS IN 1812.
16. 16.DIVISION XI. ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION. — CHAPTER LXV. — SLAVERY. — CHAPTER LXVI. — THE OBSTACLES TO ADVANCEMENT. — CHAPTER LXVII. — AGRICULTURAL MATTERS—​PRODUCTS. — AGRICULTURE—​FACTORIES—​MERCHANTS. — CHAPTER LXVIII. — THE FIRST STEAM VESSELS—​CANALS, RAILWAYS. — REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE MURRAY CANAL. — THE INCREASE OF POPULATION.
17. 17.DIVISION XII. THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS—​THE FATHERS OF UPPER CANADA. — CHAPTER LXIX. — ANCESTRY OF THE U. E. LOYALISTS. — CHAPTER LXX. — CHARACTER, CUSTOMS, AMUSEMENTS, PATRIOTISM, AGE AND DESCENDANTS OF THE U. E. LOYALISTS. — CHAPTER LXXI. — INDIVIDUAL NOTICES—​CONCLUSION. — THE CAPTIVE CHRISTIAN MOORE.
18. 18.APPENDIX. — ROLL OF THE 2nd BATTALION KING’S ROYAL REGIMENT, NEW YORK, 28th FEB., 1784. — THE GOVERNORS OF UPPER CANADA. — THE ABORIGINES OF NORTH AMERICA. THE MISSISSAUGA.
19. 19.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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