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Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) by Samuel Strickland
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CHAPTER IV.
My Marriage. -- I become a Settler on my own Account -- I purchase Land
in Otonabee. -- Return to Darlington. -- My first Attempt at driving a
Span. -- Active Measures to remedy a Disaster. -- Patience of my
Father-in-law. -- My first Bear-hunt. -- Beaver-meadows. -- Canadian
Thunder-storms. -- Fright of a Settler's Family

CHAPTER V.
Canadian Harvest. -- Preparing Timber for Frame-buildings. -- Raising
"Bee." -- Beauty of the Canadian Autumn. -- Visit to Otonabee. -- Rough
Conveyance. -- Disaccommodation. -- Learned Landlord. -- Cobourg. --
Otonabee River. -- Church of Gore's Landing. -- Effects of persevering
industry

CHAPTER VI.
Wood-duck Shooting. -- Adventure on Rice Lake. -- Irish Howl. --
Arrival at Gore's Landing. -- General Howling for the Defunct. --
Dangers of our Journey. -- Safe Arrival at Cobourg. -- Salmon-fishing.
-- Canoe-building after a bad Fashion. -- Salmon-spearing. -- Canadian
Fish and Fisheries. -- Indian Summer. -- Sleighs and Sleighing. --
Domestic Love

CHAPTER VII.
Employments of a Man of Education in the Colony. -- Yankee Wedding. --
My Commission. -- Winter in Canada. -- Healthiness of the Canadian
Climate. -- Search for Land. -- Purchase Wild Land at Douro. -- My
Flitting. -- Put up a Shanty. -- Inexperience in Clearing. -- Plan-
heaps

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