MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES

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Canadians

Chevrier, Hon. Lionel. The St. Lawrence Seaway. Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd. Toronto. 1959. 174 pages. Hardcover.

Discusses the history of the St. Lawrence Seaway, its construction, conflicts, and much more.

Price: $5.00

Jones, Mary Fallis. The Confederation Generation. Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto. 1978. 128 pages. Softcover.

Note: black letters "NA" written at top of front cover.

Contains many illustrations reprinted from the Canadian Illustrated News, a weekly journal published in Montreal between 1869 and 1883. The text consists almost entirely of excerpts taken from newspapers, journals, weeklies, and private papers of the period, highlighting what Confederation Canadians believed and did.
Price: $7.50

Kinchen, Oscar A. The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters. Bookman Associates. New York. 1956. 150 pages. Hardcover.

An account o f a vast secret society known as the Hunters' Lodges, or Patriot Hunters, that was active on both side of our northern border in the late 1830's and early 1840's, whose professed object was the "liberation of the Canadian provinces from British thraldom." Americans saw the situation similar to the American Revolution and the recent Texas Revolution .
Price: $25.00

The Prairie West. Historical Readings. Edited by R. Douglas Francis and Howard Palmer. Pica Pica Press. 1985. 660 pages. Hardcover.

A collection of thirty-two articles on Canadian prairie history written by Canada's leading historians, political scientists, and economists. Discusses Native Americans, the fur trade, settlement, Indian treaties, politics, and much more.
Price: $15.00

Sager, Eric W. and Panting, Gerald E. Maritime Capital. The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820 - 1914. McGill-Queen's University Press. Montreal and Kingston. 1990. 289 pages. Hardcover.

Drawing upon the data base of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project and important secondary sourcds, this book details the growth of the shipping industry and the economic context in which the shipping merchants operated. Ship-owning and ship-building were a central part of the mercantile economy of the Atlantic colonies of British North America.
Price: $20.00

Alberta

Palmer, Howard. Land of the Second Chance. A History of Ethnic Groups in Southern Alberta. Lethbridge Herald. Lethbridge, Canada. 1972. 287 pages. Softcover.

Individual chapters on the Dutch, Hungarians, Hutterites, Chinese, Ukranians, Mennonites, Japanese, Jews, Mormons, Scandinavians, Italians, Germans, Czechs and Slovaks, Doukhobors, British, and Americans.
Price: $10.00

British Columbia

McDonald, Robert A. J. Making Vancouver. Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863 - 1913. UBC Press. Vancouver. 1996. 316 pages. Softcover.

Traces the social transformation of the city and points out how Shaughnessy Heights lumber barons, Mount Pleasant trades people, and East end laborers were part of a complex society whose members exhibited sharp differences in attitudes and behavior. Starts with the earlier years, lumber mills, social conflict, the coming of the railroad and its demise, the boom years before the First World War and much more.
Price: $10.00

Ontario

Belleville, Friendly City. Compiled by Nick and Helma Mika. Mika Publishing. Belleville, Ontario, Canada. 1973. 260 pages. Hardcover.

Discusses Belleville in the 1890's, industries, business, education, religion, sports, and much more. Contains hundreds of photographs.
Price: $35.00

Stephen Township: 150 Great Years, 1842 - 1992. A Comprehensive look at the people who played a part in the great tradition of Stephen Township. Township of Stephen. Crediton, , Canada. No date. 142 pages. Softcover. Lots of photographs and advertisements.
Price: $5.00

Campbell, Marjorie Freeman. A Mountain and A City. The Story of Hamilton. McClelland and Stewart Limited. Toronto. 1966. 351 pages. Hardcover. Note: inscription: "W . E. Box Xmas 1966 Margaret." Traces the development of the town through vivid contemporary accounts gleaned from records and letters of its leading citizens.
Price: 30.00

Peterborough County Through the Years in Douro. (Peterborough County - Canada), 1822 - 1967. A. D. Newsom Co. Peterborough. 2nd edition. 1967. 342 pages. Hardcover.

Note: Inscription: "To Heriott. With best wishes for a happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. With love. Rhoda and Bill."

Contributions of dozens of people and hundreds of photographs provided the information for the history of Douro. Discusses cheese factories, steamships, commerce, education, religion, cemeteries, important individual s, societies, and much more.
Price: $30.00

Saskatchewan McCourt, Edward. Saskatchewan. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1968. 238 pages. Hardcover.

Note: Ex-library copy.

Discusses the various parts of Saskatchewan: The Great Plains, the Parklands, and the Forest, Lake and River. Discusses Native Americans, battles, religion, and much more.
Price: $4.00