Dorothy Duncan

Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst

Everyday Life in Upper Canada, 1812-1814

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An examination of Upper Canadian life at the dawn of a modern nation. Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst explores the web of human relationships that developed in Upper Canada following the American Revolution, in the years leading up to the War of 1812, and during the conflict that raged for two years between the young United States and Britain, its former master. The book focuses on the families, homes, gardens, farms, roads, villages, towns, shops, and fabric of everyday life in this frontier society.Upper Canada was a land in transition as First Nations, fur traders, Loyalists, entrepreneurs, merchants, farmers, and newcomers fr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4597-0594-4
EAN: 9781459705944
Produktnummer: 20447954
Verlag: Dundurn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 527 KB

Über den Autor

Dorothy Duncan has worked with organizations across Canada and around the world to ensure that Canada's culinary history is recognized, researched, and recorded. In 2007 her book Canadians at Table won the Cuisine Canada and University of Guelph Culinary Book Gold Award. She lives in Orillia, Ontario.