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Spirits of the little Bonnechere : a history of exploration, logging, and settlement, 1800 to 1920 / Roderick MacKay.

Title
Spirits of the little Bonnechere : a history of exploration, logging, and settlement, 1800 to 1920 / Roderick MacKay.
Author
MacKay, Rory
Publication
Whitney, Ontario : Published by The Friends of Algonquin Park, [2016]

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Friends of Algonquin Park issuing body.
Description
191 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"A history of exploration, logging and settlement along the Little Bonnechere River, from 1800 through 1920."--
Subject
  • Logging > Bonnechere River Valley > History
  • Human settlements > Bonnechere River Valley > History
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Bonnechere River Valley
  • Frontier and pioneer life > Renfrew (County)
  • Bonnechere River (Ont.) > History
  • Bonnechere River Valley (Ont.) > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
From the mists of time -- We people here alone -- Surveys of exploration -- The railroad that never was -- Townships in the wilderness -- A patchwork of timber limits -- Life in the lumber camps -- Improving and driving the river -- Field pine, stone piles, and old roads -- The arrival of settlers -- On the shores of Round Lake -- The long portage -- Up the Pine River -- Along the lakes -- Sligo and Mount Pleasant View -- Ten good buildings and ten acres cleared -- Born back in the lumber -- Banished from their homes.
ISBN
  • 9781894993678
  • 1894993675
OCLC
959691698
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library