“This is a book purely Canadian, and a credit to our literature.”—Educational Journal.
“No more entertaining book has ever been written about early life in British North America.”—Montreal Witness.
“Few productions of a woman’s pen show sounder judgment, higher culture and better literary taste than this book.”—Mail and Empire.
“The authors have thoroughly imbued themselves with the ’spirit of the times’ of which they wrote. Their sympathy is infectious.”—Ottawa Citizen.
“The authors have a keen sense of the ludicrous side of things, and a happy knack of seizing the salient traits of a personality and bringing it strongly before the reader.”—Kingston News.
“Unquestionably one of the best local histories. It possesses a permanent value as a realistic and thoroughly intelligent record of the condition of pioneer colonial life.”—Prof. Mavor, in Massey’s Magazine.
“It is a lively, interesting and perfectly fresh opening of a field of history of which people in the Old Country know little, and which even to Canadians must be full of the attraction of novelty and originality both in subject and treatment.”—Prof. Herbert Story, of Glasgow University.
WILLIAM BRIGGS
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