epub |eng | 2020-03-20 | Author:Tyler LeBlanc

Chapter Five Jean Baptiste It was difficult to feel lucky stuck in the filthy hold of a ship, but Jean Baptiste did. In his thirty years he had never seen ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lucille H. Campey

View of Stornoway Harbour c. 1820. In 1816, the newly built Morning field of Aberdeen carried 63 emigrants from Stornoway to Québec. The John and Samuel of Liverpool also called ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lucille H. Campey

9 SHIPS AND ATLANTIC CROSSINGS The plan you mention of getting a cargo of men and lassies and bring back timbers might do well — the thing to consider is ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Christopher Moore [Moore, Christopher]

The lieutenant-governor “shall be a very high officer,” said Macdonald, and once appointed could not be removed for five years, so that “he should not be removable by any new ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:James Laxer [Laxer, James]

The British command shifted to Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who quickly mobilized his forces to drive the Americans from Canadian soil. He dispatched the 41st’s Light Company, under the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Wesley B. Turner

If it enable me to contribute to your comfort and happiness, I shall esteem it my highest reward. When I returned Heaven thanks for may amazing success, I thought of ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-26 | Author:Richard Feltoe

14 THE KING COMMANDS AN WE OBEY: HILLS AND FAR AWAY At York, news of the American landings arrived as the Incorporated Militia were already preparing to move out for ...

epub |eng | | Author:McShea, Bronwen; [McShea, Bronwen]

To “Civilize” the Natives or “Play the Savage”? In the Relation of 1661 Superior Jérôme Lalemant explained how his confreres sometimes chose to live like the Native Americans among whom ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-12 | Author:Joan Dawson

Painters at work on the steeple of a church in Goldenville ca. 1900. Nova Scotia Archives Early in the 1860s, the focus shifted to the west side of St. Mary’s ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mary Beacock Fryer

Captain Sir James Yeo, Royal Navy. Yeo was the commander of the Royal Navy and Provincial Marine squadrons on Lake Ontario in 1813. Vincent’s second-in-command, Lieutenant-Colonel John Harvey, a Deputy ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Mark Bourrie

Finding Adam Dollard At the end of this stretch of the Ottawa River, they came across a scene of horror. Above the Long Sault Rapids, about forty miles upstream from ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-20 | Author:Joshua M. Smith

Royal Navy 12-pounder carronade on a truck carriage, common weapons on small vessels such as Bream. Cooke, Ships & Ways of Other Days Location of prizes captured by Bream in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael Laramie

Garrisoned by one hundred men and armed with twelve light cannon, Fort Albany was capable of defending itself against French and Indian marauders, but it failed to address the needs ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:Jack Nisbet [Nisbet, Jack]

SCRUBBING UP was a luxury that occasionally occupied David Thompson’s mind as well—his supply order for the previous season had included twenty pounds of soap, “for without soap, there is ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Sarah Gibson [Gibson, Sarah]

* Donald Alexander Smith, later Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, had spent his early career in the Hudson’s Bay Company, beginning as a factor in the Esquimaux Bay district. In ...