Main entry:
Guillet, Edwin C. (Edwin Clarence), 1898-1975.
Title & Author:
Pioneer travel in upper Canada / Edwin Clarence Guillet.
Publication:
[Toronto] University of Toronto Press [1966, ©1933]
Series:
Canadian university paperbooks ; 47
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Indian trails, loyalist routes, and channels of trade -- Canoe -- Bateau and Durham boat -- Sailing-ship -- Steamship -- By Indian trail and blazed path -- Roads and road-builders -- Development of road construction -- Stage- coach -- Early Canadian railroads -- Grand Trunk Railway -- From Indian courier to air mail.
Illustrations: Les Chats Falls, Upper Ottawa River, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Lac des Allumettes in 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Port Hope, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Canoe trip of the artist and her husband in a Hudson's Bay canoe / Mrs. Edward Hopkins -- North-West [Northwest] Company voyageurs, and raftsmen on the Ottawa, 1820 / C.W. Jefferys -- Fort Prince of Wales, Hudson's Bay, 1777 / Samuel Hearne -- Indian rendezvous, Drummond Isle / J.J. Bigsby -- Rat portage / J.J. Bigsby -- Last dog train leaving Lower Fort Garry, 1909 / Charles F. Comfort -- Dundas Street at London, C.W. [Canada West], in 1840 / James Hamilton -- H.B.C. York boats at Norway House, 1867 / W.J. Phillips -- Brigade of York boats in a storm on the Saskatchewan / Paul Kane -- Canoe-building at Papper's Island, Upper Ottawa, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Burial place of the voyageurs / W.H. Bartlett, 1840 -- Working a canoe up a rapid / W.H. Bartlett -- Sir Alexander Mackenzie crossing the Rockies, 1793 / Arthur Heming -- Sir Alexander Mackenzie / Sir Thomas Lawrence -- Pioneers / Arthur Heming -- Artist and her husband in a Hudson's Bay canoe running rapids / Mrs. Edward Hopkins -- Whaleboats used in Bradstreet's expedition which captured Fort Fronenac, 1758 / George A. Cuthbertson -- Cascades of the St. [Saint] Lawrence / George Heriot -- View from the Citadel at Kingston, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Timber raft and Durham boat at Cap Sante on the St. Lawrence, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Village of Cedars, River St. Lawrence, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Three Rivers, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Building of the Griffin, 1679 / George A. Cuthbertson -- Light tower, near Cobourg, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- H.M. Schooner Onondaga / Mrs. John Graves Simcoe -- Navy Hall, Niagara, 1792 / Mrs. John Graves Simcoe -- Accommodation, 1809 / C.H.J. Snider -- Steamship, Great Britain, 1830-42 / C.H.J. Snider -- Maitland's Wharf, Toronto, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- Steamship advertisement, 1857 -- Thayendanegea -- Chief Joseph Brant / George Romney -- Mohawk village, Grand River, 1793 / Mrs. John Graves Simcoe, after Lieutenant Pilkington -- Breaking a road / William Cruikshank -- Mrs. Anna Jameson on the Lake Shore Road, 1837 / Anna Jameson -- 6th Street, Chatham, U.C., in 1838 / Lieutenant Philip Bainbrigge -- Willow Creek, August / C.W. Jefferys -- Barrie on Lake Simcoe, 1853 / Captain W.H. Grubbe -- Copp's Ferry, near Georgeville, L.C. [Lower Canada], 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- King's Head Inn, Burlington Bay, 1796 / Mrs. John Graves Simcoe -- Between Cobourg and York, 1830 / James P. Cockburn.
Illustrations: Kingston-York Road, 1830 / James P. Cockburn -- Perth, Lanark County, Canada West, in 1853 / Field -- Goat Island Bridge, Niagara Falls, 1827 / Captain Basil Hall -- Timber slide and corduroy bridge / W.H. Bartlett, 1840 -- Bridge between Bytown and Hull, 1840 / W.H. Bartlett -- American stage-coach [stagecoach], 1827 / Captain Basil Hall -- Posting on the St. Lawrence / Coke Smyth -- William Weller, 1799-1863 -- Henry Burt Williams, 1813-[18]64 -- Weller stage on the Kingston Road / J.W. Cotton -- Passengers and mail crossing the St. Lawrence in winter / Cornelius Krieghoff -- H.B. Williams' omnibus of 1849 -- Sir John Eaton driving Canada's first motor- bus (Electric Tally-ho), 1900 -- H.B. Williams' bus, at the Red Lion Hotel, 1850 -- Horse-car of the Toronto Street Railway -- Railway scene at Little Falls, Mohawk Valley, New York, 1837 / W.H. Bartlett -- Celebration in Uxbridge at the opening of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway, September 14, 1871 / Armstrong -- Cobourg Harbour in the eighteen-seventies / Schell -- Old and new in transportation : the first through train over the Grand Trunk Railway at Napanee Station, October 27, 1856 / Fergus Kyle -- Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, 1836 / H. Southam -- Prince of Wales laying the last stone of the Victoria Bridge, 1860 / G.H. Andrews -- View of Ottawa in 1860 from Barracks Hill, the site of the new Parliament buildings / G.H. Andrews -- Postmaster as the church door / A. Sherriff Scott -- Cunarders in New York Harbour [Harbor].
ISBN:
0802060528 (paperback)
9780802060525 (paperback)
Subject:
Transportation Ontario History.
Frontier and pioneer life Ontario.
Transport Ontario Histoire.
Vie des pionniers Ontario.
Frontier and pioneer life
Transportation
Travel
Ontario Description and travel.
Ontario Descriptions et voyages.
Ontario
Added entries:
Canadian university paperbooks ; 47.
Holdings:
Location: Library main canada 149407
Call No.: FC3067.2 G8 1966
Status: Available
