Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) by Samuel Strickland
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leave Guelph for Goderich. -- Whirlwinds at Guelph and Douro
CHAPTER XVIII. The Huron tract. -- Journal of Dr. Dunlop. -- His Hardships. -- I leave Guelph for Goderich. -- Want of Accommodation. -- Curious Supper. -- Remarkable Trees. -- The Beverly Oak. -- Noble Butter-wood Trees. -- Goderich. -- Fine Wheat Crop. -- Purchase a Log-house. -- Construction of a Raft CHAPTER XIX. My new House at Goderich. -- Carpentry an essential Art. -- American Energy. -- Agreeable Visitors. -- My Wife's Disasters. -- Hints for Anglers. -- The Nine-mile Creek Frolic. -- The Tempest. -- Our Skipper and his Lemon-punch. -- Short Commons. -- Camp in the Woods. -- Return on Foot. -- Ludicrous termination to our Frolic CHAPTER XX. Choice of a Location. -- The Company's Lands. -- Crown Lands. -- Tables published by the Canada Company. -- Progressive Improvement of the Huron Tract CHAPTER XXI. The King proclaimed in the Bush. -- Fete and Ball in the Evening. -- My Yankee Fellow-traveller. -- Awful Storm. -- My lonely Journey. -- Magical Effect of a Name CHAPTER XXII. Visit of the Passenger-pigeon to the Canadas. -- Canadian Blackbirds. - - Breeding-places of the Passenger-pigeons. -- Squirrels |
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