Pioneer Days In Muskoka

Newsletter covering the pioneer days in Port Sydney.

Newsletter covering the pioneer days in Port Sydney.

A story about the settlement of communities in the Free Grant Lands and of pioneer life in Muskoka.

The history of Ontario's premier cottage destination, Muskoka, was not commonplace or uneventful. Beginning in the 1860's, emigrants from the British Isles and Europe were lured to this desolate region with the promise of free land grants for farming. What they found were mature forests, swamp, and never ending rock. Their heroic attempts to make a living farming on the Precambrian Shield did not come without considerable discomfort. Pioneer Muskoka documents the struggles faced by these early homesteaders and their response to hardship, isolation, disease and poverty. This is the tale of a community banding together to overcome fear with courage and determination. Readers will be astounded by the lengths these settlers went in their quest to make a home for themselves and future generations in Muskoka. The eventual shift from farming to more profitable industries such as lumber and tourism brought a shift in attitude towards this now highly sought after locale. The first families, through their enormous efforts, were able to create this positive and enduring change....

Excerpt from Pioneer Days in Ontario A hundred years ago, a voyage from Britain te Canada was by no means a pleasure trip. Even fo1 cabin passengers there were many hardships, and the vast majority of emigrants travelled steerage. Se long was the voyage, so poor were the living quarters and food, and so great the danger from sickness, that one wonders at the courage of our pioneer ancestors ir attempting it. Only the worst of conditions at home could drive men and women to undergo the sufferings of a passage in an emigrant ship, lacking comforts anc even food. 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.