Memories of Ontario the Travellers Guide to Th

By Terry Boyle

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0969525117
• ISBN13: 9780969525110
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Cannonbooks
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Touring southwestern Ontario by book

In this book we have a number of short histories of southwestern Ontario communities, both big and small. Each history provides us with a glimps of the community's unique past, often beginning with the Natives all the way up to the modern day. Along the way, we meet a host of interesting chracters, such as James Kidd of Mono Mills, who at the age of 92 years wed a girl of but 16 year, or Jack Miner, whose study of the Canada Gosse is legendery. My only complaint is the ackwardness of some of the writing, and the occassional slip-up. One example is at the beginning of the history of Orangeville when he states "the Mississauga tribe lived along the Credit River. To the north... were the Petun or Tobacco Nation..." Well, actually these tribes were not contemporaries. The Petun existed up until the 1640s, when along with the Huron and Neutral nations, they were defeated and dispersed by the Iroquois. The Mississauga are Ojibway, and they came later after the Ojibway had driven out the Iroquois. Aside from such things, Memories of Ontario is an enjoyable arm-chair tour of southwestern Ontario.