Forest, Lake and Prairie / Twenty Years of Frontier Life in Western Canada—1842-62

TWENTY YEARS OF FRONTIER LIFE IN WESTERN CANADA—1842-62.
JOHN McDOUGALL
SECOND EDITION
TORONTO: WILLIAM BRIGGS 1910
Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, by WILLIAM BRIGGS, Toronto, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa.
TO My Dear Mother THIS BOOK is AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
Childhood—Indians—Canoes— Old Isaiah —Father goes to college
Guardians—School—Trip to Nottawasaga—Journey to Alderville—Elder Case—The wild colt, etc
Move into the far north—Trip from Alderville to Garden River—Father's work—Wide range of big steamboat—My trip to Owen Sound—Peril in storm—In store at Penetanguishene—Isolation—First boat—Brother David knocked down