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The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853
Personalities, Profits and Politics
Natural Heritage Books
Published: August 2004
312 pages (PB)
6.75 x 9.75
1-896219-94-2
$26.95
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The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853
Personalities, Profits and Politics
Robert C. Lee
85: b&w archival photographs & sketches, archival and contemporary maps
The book focuses generally on the Canada Company, its place in the pioneer settlement of Upper Canada, and specifically on the Huron Tract. The dominant personalities within the Company, the diversity of the players, both local and abroad, and the volatile politics of the day, and the legacy of the Company are explored in depth. An astounding blend of vision, intrigue and mischief provide a backdrop to the bottom-line profit aspirations of the Company's shareholders.
Subjects: History, Politics
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Preface; A Note From the Author: Money in Canada 1763-1858; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Why the Canada Company?; Chapter 2: The Galt Era; Chapter 3: A Crucial Year; Chapter 4: A Decade of Allan and Jones; Chapter 5: A Stormy Fourteen Years; Chapter 6: You Be the Judge; Epilogue; Appendix A: Chronology of Events; Appendix B: Canada Company Directors; Appendix C: Huron Tract Township Names and Their Origins; Appendix D: "The Huron Tract" by Dr. William "Tiger" Dunlop, 1841; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
A new approach to this period of settlement in Upper Canada; extensive research; well-documented; multiple appendices and full index.
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