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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 33 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 63823 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 75 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Canada 14 Mr. 11 Lake 10 little 10 canadian 9 indian 9 Upper 9 Mrs. 9 England 8 Toronto 8 God 7 good 7 british 7 States 7 St. 6 man 6 day 6 United 6 Ontario 5 York 5 New 5 Government 5 Council 4 american 4 Province 4 Niagara 4 London 4 Kingston 4 Governor 4 Dr. 3 water 3 look 3 like 3 great 3 footnote 3 come 3 West 3 Superintendent 3 Sir 3 River 3 Quebec 3 John 3 Huron 3 House 3 Falls 3 Erie 3 Bay 2 year 2 tree 2 time Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 3685 man 3436 time 3237 day 2627 year 2040 school 2017 water 1885 house 1829 country 1704 way 1695 hand 1689 child 1683 place 1662 tree 1629 life 1559 land 1441 people 1438 work 1424 eye 1375 thing 1358 night 1310 part 1226 wood 1190 woman 1159 side 1120 home 1107 head 1086 one 1078 foot 1073 heart 997 friend 978 mother 948 face 927 mile 918 lake 905 girl 902 father 892 word 882 pupil 869 ground 859 name 845 fire 842 road 836 nothing 835 room 834 mind 815 teacher 812 family 803 number 793 person 786 river Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 6186 _ 2308 Canada 1716 Mr. 1253 Mrs. 1016 Shenac 991 Upper 788 Dr. 770 Toronto 675 Ryerson 664 Province 661 School 655 Government 652 Indians 625 England 616 Lake 595 John 568 Sir 540 God 538 Myron 526 Governor 490 States 482 St. 463 Mary 453 Council 447 Schools 446 Ontario 446 Beth 443 United 439 Deans 435 York 428 Mackenzie 422 Assembly 421 Hamish 417 House 409 Indian 404 General 392 Lord 387 New 383 May 374 Lady 333 Homer 332 Louis 329 CHAPTER 325 | 320 Arthur 316 College 307 Act 301 Lieutenant 293 Holder 292 Education Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 17620 it 16126 i 14963 he 9253 they 7757 she 6708 you 5586 we 4992 him 4957 them 3546 me 2923 her 1855 us 1296 himself 834 themselves 547 herself 529 myself 331 itself 197 one 172 ourselves 124 yourself 91 thee 66 mine 48 yours 37 his 34 ours 31 hers 24 ''em 20 theirs 10 ye 6 em 5 thy 5 oneself 5 ''s 4 i''m 3 yerself 3 thyself 3 na 3 ib 3 ha''e 2 yourselves 2 wigwam 2 ve 2 truly,--you 2 trodden 2 quietly,-- 2 pelf 2 on''t 2 ha 1 £360 1 your''n Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 69994 be 23911 have 6502 do 4877 make 4443 say 3813 see 3451 come 3417 go 3239 take 2690 give 2434 find 2336 know 2264 think 2210 look 1859 leave 1842 get 1664 tell 1661 seem 1397 call 1287 bring 1281 keep 1240 become 1225 pass 1214 feel 1209 hear 1191 use 1115 follow 1107 put 1035 hold 956 stand 955 grow 942 fall 928 begin 900 turn 857 ask 842 speak 817 show 816 set 791 live 785 return 784 sit 756 lie 755 rise 750 carry 736 run 715 let 706 receive 705 form 696 meet 690 place Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 11199 not 4690 so 4067 very 3629 more 3502 little 3268 up 2973 good 2923 great 2880 well 2725 then 2678 now 2617 out 2526 old 2484 other 2464 long 2301 only 2226 much 2188 first 2182 as 2171 many 2004 most 1875 never 1728 down 1699 such 1697 own 1657 large 1637 few 1522 young 1444 here 1418 too 1333 even 1314 again 1272 away 1254 same 1211 last 1184 new 1169 soon 1160 small 1155 also 1145 far 1143 still 1140 just 1042 there 1009 high 1008 ever 981 poor 976 off 972 back 934 fine 929 once Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 697 good 434 least 419 most 153 great 108 high 91 bad 84 eld 82 fine 81 large 72 near 56 slight 48 Most 47 young 43 early 41 low 37 small 34 old 33 rich 33 deep 24 strong 22 dear 20 happy 19 pure 19 late 19 bright 16 wise 16 poor 15 long 14 manif 14 grand 13 noble 13 full 12 common 12 cheap 11 topmost 11 able 10 wild 10 short 10 rude 10 lovely 10 j 10 big 9 warm 9 simple 9 gross 9 bitter 8 safe 8 cold 8 clear 7 vile Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1585 most 85 well 81 least 2 tempest 2 long 2 farthest 1 ¦ 1 youngest 1 worst 1 softly,-- 1 near 1 infest 1 hard 1 greatest 1 fullest 1 fast 1 family,--the 1 brightest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 www.pgdpcanada.net 1 link.library.utoronto.ca Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 4 http://www.pgdpcanada.net 1 http://link.library.utoronto.ca/booksonline/). Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 _ did _ 12 _ is _ 8 man was not 6 _ are _ 6 _ was _ 6 man had never 6 schools were not 5 canada is not 5 day was fine 5 days gone by 5 night came on 5 night was dark 5 woods were full 4 child did not 4 children go out 4 country is not 4 day was sunday 4 day was very 4 house is not 4 man came in 4 time had not 3 _ am _ 3 _ does _ 3 _ had _ 3 _ is not 3 _ was not 3 canada had not 3 canada have not 3 canada is no 3 canada was not 3 canada was then 3 day was clear 3 day were over 3 days were not 3 eyes are large 3 houses are mostly 3 land is well 3 man was more 3 men took up 3 night came down 3 people are always 3 people are so 3 people did not 3 people do not 3 people were really 3 school became vacant 3 time passed on 3 women are not 2 _ did not 2 _ do _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 canada is no longer 2 canada is not poisonous 2 child did not soon 2 country is not much 2 day is not far 2 men are no great 2 time had not yet 1 * is not more 1 _ does not _ 1 _ is not much 1 _ was not alone 1 canada are not subject 1 canada had not more 1 canada had not only 1 canada was no longer 1 canada was no worse 1 canada were not easily 1 children are no longer 1 children are not interested 1 children were not easily 1 children were not long 1 country are not easily 1 country do not usually 1 country felt no shame 1 country have no money 1 country is not yet 1 country was not yet 1 day were not backward 1 days was not ashamed 1 days were not many 1 days were not then 1 eyes gave no sign 1 eyes held no knowledge 1 hand was not firm 1 hand was not strong 1 hands is not much 1 home was not all 1 house is not well 1 house is not yet 1 houses is not always 1 houses were not unnoticed 1 land are no longer 1 land are not very 1 land is not distinguishable 1 life held no prize 1 life was not always 1 man has not sufficient 1 man is no rank 1 man made no answer 1 man was not insensible A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 20014 author = Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir title = Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 1 date = keywords = Atlantic; Barrie; Bay; Canada; England; English; Erie; Falls; Huron; Kingston; Lake; Lawrence; Mr.; New; Niagara; Ontario; Penetanguishene; St.; States; Superior; Toronto; United; York; american; british; canadian; french summary = States or Canada, may be classed under several heads, like the northern states and throughout Canada, excepting the French Canadians, British American Land Company in Lower Canada, in that portion called The day''s wages for a labourer on a farm in Lower Canada may be stated excepting water, along the country roads of Canada. river Niagara, to connect the United States with Canada for £8,000, road, you see the great lake for miles before its shores are reached. In most parts of Upper Canada, near the shores of the great lakes, you The Great Fresh-water Seas of Canada. The Great Fresh-water Seas of Canada. lakes in the years since Upper Canada came into our possession! the Great Lake, as Superior is called, are the American village of St. Mary and the British one of the same name, on the opposite bank of the About a mile above the village is the landing-place from Lake Superior, id = 21260 author = Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir title = Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 date = keywords = Bay; Bush; Canada; Canal; Church; England; Kingston; Lake; London; Mr.; New; River; Road; St.; States; Thames; Toronto; Trent; United; Upper; West; american; british; canadian; indian summary = We landed once more at Toronto, at present "The City" of Upper Canada, projects in Canada, has evidently been at work, and a city a mile or Canadian new roads are kept by Irish folks--four miles from Brentford. abusing England, abusing Canada, abusing the United States; then a great mass of the people in the United States prophesy that, if war The public works, the great high road to London, and the opening of American Union, cross over from the States to Canada, or _vice versa_, I have seen a good deal of farming and of farmers in Canada. good place of it!" The French Canadians on the Detroit river were all supposed in England, but within a few miles of British Canada and countries in Canada, by a gigantic canal, which was to open Lake Huron of ages, for a world and a country so new as Western Canada. id = 22363 author = Coyne, James H. (James Henry) title = The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot date = keywords = Creek; Detroit; Erie; Hurons; Indians; Iroquois; Lake; Nation; Neutrals; River summary = seen." Long Point: "Peninsula of Lake Erie." North Shore Opposite: "Here we wintered." The Bay Opposite: "Little Lake Erie." Grand River: He speaks of a Neutral village called Ouaroronon, one day''s journey from of the Detroit River and Lake Huron are invariably meant. fatigue in the woods the priests and the relief party arrived at Ste. Marie on the very day of St. Joseph, patron of the country, in time to Casson and Galinee on their way to Lake Erie and the Ohio River. villages south of Lake Ontario during the winter or the following Indians having settled abodes on the north shore of Lake Erie for more the Georgian Bay and the French and Ottawa River and by Detroit, Lake Erie and Niagara; the Lake Simcoe portage routes by the Trent River the Detroit River to the Essex shore of Lake Erie, where there was a id = 22131 author = Dent, John Charles title = The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1 date = keywords = Assembly; Attorney; Baldwin; Bidwell; Canada; Colonial; Committee; Compact; Council; Court; Crown; Dr.; England; Executive; Francis; General; Gourlay; Government; Governor; House; John; Judge; Justice; King; Lieutenant; Mackenzie; Mr.; Parliament; Province; Reform; Rolph; Sir; Upper; Willis; York summary = the feelings of public men, whose official acts have subjected them Province of Upper Canada." Certain public officials, not specifically shape of free grants of wild lands, to persons settling in Upper Canada, I left Upper Canada last year," writes Mr. Mackenzie, "some of the Chief Justice of Upper Canada, Member for life of the Legislative Reform Party than was William Lyon Mackenzie, whose personality yet In a new country like Canada a young man of Mackenzie''s energy was soon of those times will not be long in arriving at the conclusion that Mr. Mackenzie''s unsupported testimony, more especially as to matters in any Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada was Major-General Sir John Colborne, all the Reform newspapers in Upper Canada, and Sir Francis had no reason the Governor of Upper Canada is at all times most fully responsible for the first time in the history of Upper Canada, Government agents were id = 36992 author = Fraser, Alexander title = The Ontario Archives: Scope of its Operations date = keywords = Canada; Crown; Ontario; Province summary = lands, forests, and mines; public works; and education. the departments of government in which our archives originate. Archives we have defined as the records, the business papers, of the The Ontario Bureau of Archives, organized in 1903, is equally related and documents of record value or of historical interest, not in current branches of the public service presented to the house); the originals of original copy of sessional papers which are printed is returned with the documents, books, and statistical papers of the office, which are in embracing the records of the surveys of the Province; the original maps, Province pertaining to land grants to old settlers; plans of the The most interesting archives emanating from the public-works department record office of State papers, primarily for their proper preservation the history of Ontario until the confederation of the Provinces in 1867 We are also collecting papers and documents pertaining to the political id = 6663 author = Haight, Canniff title = Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian date = keywords = Bay; Canada; Government; Kingston; Lake; Montreal; Mr.; Ontario; Province; Quinte; St.; Upper; York; canadian; day; early; footnote; good; home; house; man; old; place; school; time; year summary = and the old people then thought it the better way to let the young folk At this time a great change had taken place, both in the appearance of joyful peal through the house, and through the years the old hands had In the winter time the small school room was filled to overflowing with years: large buildings with no end of timber and all roof, like a great The old homes, as I remember them in those days, were thought palatial homes a stately old time-piece, whose face nearly reached the ceiling, The great difficulty has been for an old country like the mother land, remember a little boy between seven and eight years old getting a severe Over thirty years have passed since I left my old home, and change after old Quaker Meeting House about three miles away. after the old man passed away, and I remember well that for years this id = 48194 author = Hodgins, J. George (John George) title = Ryerson Memorial Volume Prepared on the occasion of the unveiling of the Ryerson statute in the grounds of the Education department on the Queen''s birthday, 1889 date = keywords = Act; Canada; College; Common; Council; Department; District; Dr.; Education; England; Governor; Hon; House; Legislature; Mr.; New; Ontario; Province; Public; Rev.; Ryerson; School; States; Strachan; Superintendent; Toronto; University; Upper summary = the Ontario Public School system of education. The school law in existence at the time of Dr. Ryerson''s appointment education of the youth of this Province, our high and public school common school education in this province, to express my unalloyed addressed to the Kingston Board of School Trustees by the Very Rev. Principal Grant, are of special value as an apt illustration of my from the District Board of Education, or school inspector, of something more than a common district school education; such an schools; that reports to the district Board of Education should be efficiency than our present system for Common School education. STATE OF COMMON SCHOOL EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA, 1845. STATE OF COMMON SCHOOL EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA, 1845. establishment of a system of Common School education. principle, that a Public School education is the right of every following account of the common school education of his day:--"The and success of the common schools and educational institutions of id = 30808 author = James, C. C. (Charles Canniff) title = History of Farming in Ontario date = keywords = Agriculture; Canada; Ontario; States; United; West; british summary = Most of them had lived on farms in New York State, that year, organized an agricultural society at the headquarters which The organization of agricultural societies in the various districts, 1846, there was organized the Provincial Agricultural Association and Towards the latter part of the period a new agricultural industry came established itself as a part of the agricultural life of Canada West. condition of agriculture in Ontario when the Dominion was born. known as the Ontario Agricultural College. agricultural resources of the Province of Ontario, the progress and third time, and for years it formed the Ontario farmer''s library. In 1888 a new period in Ontario''s agricultural history begins. for the developing of this new agriculture in Ontario, reference should The history of agricultural work in Ontario in recent years may be put of Ontario agriculture shows many changes in the past hundred years, but id = 35224 author = Jameson, Mrs. (Anna) title = Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men date = keywords = Canada; Chippewas; Colonel; Detroit; England; English; Erie; Father; Footnote; French; God; Great; Huron; Indians; Island; Lake; Manitoolin; Michigan; Mr.; Mrs.; Niagara; Page; Schoolcraft; St.; States; Talbot; Toronto; United; Upper; american; british; canadian; like; little; man; woman summary = life seems to me like a summer residence in a watering-place. inns;--wild Indians, and white men more savage far than they;--dangers a little village of Seneca Indians, now rising into a town of some size of land along the shores of Lake Erie, on condition of placing a settler beautiful little town of Chatham made my sinking spirits bound like the "Near the close of a long and fatiguing day, my Indian guide came on the find it occupied by two Indians only--a young man and his wife. In a little time the Indian returned and lay down. if a poor Indian woman, who had received much kindness from the family little inn, or boarding-house, kept by a very fat half-caste Indian like to see an Indian brought to prefer a house to a wigwam, and live in stood for some time looking at a little Indian boy, who, in a canoe id = 39924 author = Machar, Agnes Maule title = Down the River to the Sea date = keywords = Canada; Falls; Flora; Hugh; Kate; Lake; Macnab; Mr.; Mrs.; Niagara; Quebec; Saguenay; Sandford; St.; Toronto; Winthrop; canadian; french; indian; little summary = "Are _you_ tired yet, Hugh?" asked Kate; "shall we walk on--it''s a good "So this is Lake Ontario!" said Hugh Macnab, looking around with keen "I must read up those old French Missions," said Hugh. "Oh, by the way, Kate," said Nellie, "don''t you remember that Mr. Winthrop we met at Old Orchard last summer, with whom you used to have "There''s a squall coming down the river," said Hugh Macnab, who had "Wait till you have tried it a little while!" said Kate. long line of little French-looking houses fringing the shore, while on times," said Kate; and May tried to recall in imagination the great "Oh, I think there is enough of it left yet," said Kate, while Mrs. Sandford remarked that she thought she never should have been able to pretty little island, when the river was so calm, and it all looked so id = 6581 author = Mackenzie, J. B. title = A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians date = keywords = Chiefs; Council; Government; Indian; Reserve; Superintendent; high; mind; power; way; white summary = The conditions which govern the Indian''s occupation of his Reserve are, hand, an Indian woman intermarry with a white man, such act compels, those, of course, who hold the like office in other Indian districts) are there provoked, that the Indian''s powers of oratory come, for the whole, that I do no injustice to the white man, when I credit the Indian The Indian woman has a finer development, as a rule, than the white It is often claimed for the Indian that, before the white man put him in Certain notions, bound up with the Indian''s practice, in times now Indian is much more prone to follow the evil than the moral practices The present Indian legislation, in my judgment, operates in every way Indian in his present trading relations with the white, to the wider more frequent contact with the white, that would ensue upon the Indian''s id = 35026 author = McKay, Kenneth W. title = The Court Houses of a Century A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin date = keywords = County; Court; Elgin; House; Thomas; illustration summary = A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of the London District, 1792, an Act was passed for building a Gaol and Court House in every building, and a brick court house and gaol was erected at Vittoria at an present jail and court house in London was completed at a cost of supplied by the County, and left in the building when court house was and Clerk of the County Court were located in one room in the apartments the County of Elgin opened at St. Thomas in the Town Hall, David John [Illustration: THE ELGIN COURT HOUSE BEFORE THE FIRE.] County on the magnificence of the Court House, which, he said, was of the old and new buildings; the other, the names of the County Council [Illustration: ELGIN COUNTY COURT HOUSE N. [Illustration: COUNTY · BUILDING · AT · ST · THOMAS · ONT. id = 4389 author = Moodie, Susanna title = Roughing It in the Bush date = keywords = B----; Belleville; Betty; C----; Canada; D----; Emilia; England; God; Jacob; Jeanie; Jenny; Joe; John; Lake; Malcolm; Moodie; Mr.; Mrs.; N----; Nature; Q----; R----; S----; States; Tom; Uncle; United; Wilson; british; canadian; day; english; good; indian; irish; like; little; man; old summary = her last night." (I thought of the old adage.) "Mrs. Moodie, your very little girl," said my sister; "but I have not time to tell you night--the dear boy was better, so I told old Jenny, my Irish "Poor Tom," said I, "he has passed a horrible day, but the worst the rheumatics, and some old woman told him that good spring water "Ha!" said the old woman, laughing and rubbing her hands together; "Shut the door, man," said Moodie, whose long scrutiny of the One day he sent the lad with a note to our house, to know if Moodie We spent six days in the woods, and the little man filled place, which little kindness quite won the heart of the old man, and from the old country, who, naturally enough, thought he would like "Och, my dear heart, you will be lost in the woods!" said old Jenny. id = 8132 author = Moodie, Susanna title = Life in the Clearings versus the Bush date = keywords = Belleville; Browne; C---; Canada; England; Falls; God; Grace; Hannah; Jeanie; Kingston; London; Lord; M---; Michael; Mr.; Mrs.; Niagara; Toronto; Willie; canadian; child; day; english; good; great; indian; irish; like; long; look; man; young summary = _good-hearted_, roystering friends; they will leave you like a town; or to watch with eager eyes the young men of the place engaged contrary, the old man is living still, and very likely to treat himself my youngest child, a fine boy of two years old, was for some time have I seen a fine child of five or six years old, astride of a saw-log, "Honour is all very well in an old country like England," said a lady, A new country like Canada cannot value the education of her people too "How could sensible, good men, condemn poor old women to death for being Large farmers in an old cleared country live remarkably well, and enjoy hands raised towards heaven, looked like some inspired prophet of old, any one wished to take a last look of the dear old man, now was the old-looking young man for his father, and congratulated him on his id = 20557 author = Ontario. Department of Education title = Ontario Teachers'' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools date = keywords = Co.; Fig; Household; LESSON; MATTER; METHOD; PLAN; PRELIMINARY; SUBJECT; Science; WORK; home; illustration; pupil summary = If school lunches are served or cooking lessons are given at the school, on the care of foods in connection with the first cooking lesson, and to used in the next cooking lesson or in the school lunch, discussing the in order to cook the starch thoroughly; then add one pint of cold water cooking lessons are being given and dish-towels are in use, or if the Wash the vegetables carefully and put them on to cook in boiling water. Of what value is hot water in cooking food? Let the pupils put water on to boil and prepare a vegetable for cooking. _Home assignment._--Each pupil should prepare some vegetable and serve In each cooking lesson, suggestions for serving the food should material, for use in washing and drying dishes at home or in school._ the food cannot be cooked on the school stove, it may be taken home to id = 26139 author = Ontario. Department of Education title = Ontario Teachers'' Manuals: Nature Study date = keywords = Co.; LESSON; Nature; Ontario; Study; animal; bird; class; field; flower; form; garden; insect; leave; plant; pupil; room; seed; tree; water; work summary = weeds, identification of garden plants, observation lessons based on Class lessons based on a flowering garden plant, as pansy, aster, garden seeds; observations on the habits of climbing plants, and introductory exercises in soil study as a preparation for seed planting. Field lessons on the habitat of common wild flowers; class-room study of Soil-forming agents, as running water, ice, frost, heat, wind, plants, A pupil is asked to pull the plant out of the soil in the flower-pot. The plant is now uprooted from the soil, and the pupils examine the root Collect the seed pods from as many plants of your garden plots, or home If the pupils of this Form have planted and cared for garden plots of The pupils should plant some seeds in sand or moist sawdust in boxes or study of wild flowers as in those schools where no garden plants are id = 16343 author = Petitt, Maud title = Beth Woodburn date = keywords = Arthur; Beth; Briarsfield; Clarence; Marie; Mayfair; Mr.; Perth; Woodburn summary = Beth saw a faint shadow cross her father''s face, but put it aside as Beth joined her father and Arthur in the parlor, and they talked the old Beth looked up and saw Edith watching her with a smiling, Beth had a strange dream-like look in her eyes, and the tea-bell broke "Arthur is going to take me over to the island this week," said Beth. Beth''s face looked changed in the last twenty-four hours. "Do you like Miss de Vere?" asked Clarence, after Beth had enjoyed a Beth Woodburn had a love-hungering heart, though few people knew it. "Are you sorry to leave home, Beth?" asked Arthur. Beth felt a little sad at heart; she looked at the long, empty "That sounds like Arthur," said Beth. He believed Beth loved Clarence, as he thought a woman Beth wondered if he loved Marie, and she looked at him, with her gentle, id = 34002 author = Pickthall, Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) title = Dick''s Desertion: A Boy''s Adventures in Canadian Forests A Tale of the Early Settlement of Ontario date = keywords = Collinson; Dick; Indian; Mr.; Mrs.; Names; Peter; Roger; Stephanie; day; little summary = Dick helped his father, or idled away on little hunting Dick was as patiently sitting before little Mrs. Collinson, holding the Peter Many-Names glanced at Dick with a grave sort of indifference, Dick had run away with the Indian; and when for a time she could feel From the night of Peter Many-Names'' arrival at the sugar-camp, Dick had Dick, watching the dark woods ahead, saw a sudden little Peter''s building--a little canoe he had hurriedly made, with Dick''s little dark face with its strange eyes close to Dick''s. air, that Dick did not feel the cold, and Peter Many-Names was of And for these three days Dick and Peter Many-Names had gone blindly on came upon Dick and Peter Many-Names. But the day on which Dick was to start found Peter "I can go by myself," said Dick, a little indignant, though much id = 37739 author = Putman, J. Harold (John Harold) title = Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada date = keywords = Act; Bill; Canada; College; Common; Council; District; Government; Grammar; Normal; Ryerson; School; Separate; Superintendent; Upper summary = it saw the first attempts in Upper Canada to give schools under public had established in Toronto a school known as the Upper Canada Central present state of Education in this Province consists of Common Schools The Common Schools of Upper Canada had to wait for a new people of Upper Canada to secure the free Grammar Schools for which the respectable, and well-educated teachers, has degraded Common School Boards of Education; to grant £10,000 to Common Schools as a Legislative College, Upper Canada College, and the District Grammar Schools--all the there were last year but 51 Separate Schools in all Upper Canada, nearly and it had been granted by successive School Acts for Upper Canada, then were in Upper Canada no colleges to which graduates of Grammar Schools Normal Schools were mooted in Upper Canada before Ryerson became Ryerson on the Separate School Law of Upper Canada. id = 21227 author = Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) title = Shenac''s Work at Home date = keywords = Allister; Angus; Bhan; Dan; Dhu; Evan; Flora; God; Hamish; Shenac; Stewart summary = home Hamish and Shenac, who were twins, Dan, Hugh, Colin, and little "Whisht, Hamish dear; there''s no wonder," said Shenac in a low voice. The little boys were all in bed by this time, and Hamish and Shenac were "But, Shenac," said Hamish eagerly, "you are not to think I mind _that_ "I think, Shenac, you should say nothing to Dan about it," said Hamish. of Angus Dhu, neither Dan nor Hamish nor anybody else ever heard Shenac "Whisht, Hamish," said Shenac Dhu, "you''re going to quote Saint Paul and "Hamish," said Shenac Dhu, "I shall never see her without fancying she "But, Shenac," said Hamish gravely, "does our mother know? "It has seemed like the old days again," said Shenac as they came in "Nonsense, Hamish!" said Shenac Dhu; "you don''t know anything about it. "Do you think that has anything to do with it, Hamish?" said Shenac id = 63152 author = Sage, W. N. (Walter Noble) title = Sir George Arthur and His Administration of Upper Canada date = keywords = Arthur; Canada; Durham; George; Governor; Sir; Upper summary = Canada Sir George Arthur was unable to forget his experience in In 1814 George Arthur became Lieutenant-Governor of British Honduras On his arrival in Upper Canada Sir George Arthur was faced by a United States before the arrival in Upper Canada of Sir George Arthur. the American authorities, and Sir George Arthur finds occasion to Three days after writing thus to Lord Glenelg Sir George Arthur Canada was to obtain a better understanding with Sir George Arthur he was the action of Sir George Arthur and his Executive Council in Among the despatches sent by Sir George Arthur to the Earl of Durham Governor-General and under him Sir George Arthur was once more to act Sir George Arthur remained in Upper Canada until 1841, when the Act Sir George Arthur and His Administration of Upper Canada, by Sir George Arthur and His Administration of Upper Canada, by id = 15307 author = Sellar, Gordon title = The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 date = keywords = Allan; Archie; Auld; Bambray; Brodie; Canada; God; Jabez; Kerr; Magarth; Mrs; Robbie; Scotland; Toronto; come; man summary = house by the side of the road I went to the open door and asked for a farm duties, I helped about the house and came, in course of time, to the master had to pay the rent asked or leave the place. way, and exactly five weeks from the day we left Troon we came to anchor Next day, in talking with the captain, he told the master four days, declared he had got sick coming to the office; he had thought names, said the master, and came away sick at heart. to pay for what the horse drinks.'' Arrived in Toronto the master said he telling Jabez of him next day, he said the master had done well to come From the time we left the ship till we got into our shanties, July 20--Brodie and Auld came early and we set to work to get logs ready id = 15245 author = Strickland, Samuel title = Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) date = keywords = Bush; CHAPTER; Canada; Cobourg; Company; Darlington; Doctor; Dr.; Dunlop; Galt; Goderich; Guelph; Huron; Lake; Mr.; Peterborough; West; canadian; day; good; indian; land; time; tree summary = the land a good deal of brush-wood and tops of trees are thrown into Cut a piece of elm, five feet and a half long, large enough This man, to save trouble, had left several large hemlock trees near particularly so when, emerging from the woods, we entered Hamiltonplains, and beheld in the distance the glittering waters of Rice Lake, navigable for steam-boats to the Rice Lake, at the distance of twentyone miles, which it enters after a course of fully two hundred and time contained one log-house and a very poor saw-mill, erected some house in half the time, the distance by the road being more than double who were for eight days looking for an old woman nearly eighty years of underbrushing hard-wood land, and cutting up-all the old fallen timberland, hard wood being the best indication of a good soil. land as good as that belonging to the Canada Company. id = 35586 author = Thompson, Samuel title = Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years: An Autobiography date = keywords = CHAPTER; Canada; Church; City; Council; Denison; Dr.; England; General; George; Government; Governor; Hon; Institute; John; London; Lord; Mackenzie; Mr.; Quebec; Sir; St.; States; Street; Toronto; United; Upper; british; canadian summary = the old country, and began to cast a longing eye to lands where there During the following year, 1834, the Government opened up a settlement had a fair little child under two years old, named Hetty, whom we often comfortable as are the majority of Canadian farm-houses of to-day. a day''s work to his neighbour, for a logging or raising-bee; and looks There was but little sleep in Toronto that night, and next day Canada Bank, the Parliament Buildings, Osgoode Hall, Government House, In the course of the next day, Wednesday, parties of men arrived from British Government in Canada may long continue, and give a home The country was at the time in a state of general civil war; not only the first time held in Canada, at the City of Hamilton; in 1878 at Having paid my respects at the Government House on New Year''s day, I was id = 13559 author = Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland title = The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America date = keywords = Canada; Company; England; LETTER; Lake; London; Montreal; New; Otanabee; Peterborough; Quebec; S------; St.; Upper; York; american; british; canadian; column; country; emigrant; good; great; indian; little; low; water; year summary = Country.--Rice Lake.--Indian Habits.--Voyage up the Otanabee.--Loghouse, and its Inmates.--Passage boat.--Journey on foot to Peterborough Team.--Arrival at a Log-house on the Banks of a Lake.--Settlement, and Indian Summer, and setting-in of Winter.--Process of clearing the Land Fruits of the Country.--Walks on the Ice.--Situation of the House.--Lake they are bound, and if they make the rude wave their home and restingplace during the long day and dark night; and then I recall to mind the as the barn-like form of the buildings of this kind, and the little walls; and as to the little farm-houses, they are uglier still, and look wild land thirty years ago, nothing but Indian hunting-grounds. Lake.--Indian Habits.--Voyage up the Otanabee.--Log-house, and its absence of trees about the dwelling-houses and cleared lands; the axe of There is another pretty trailing plant, with delicate little funnelshaped flowers, and a profusion of small dark green round buds, slightly id = 6479 author = Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland title = Lady Mary and Her Nurse; Or, A Peep into the Canadian Forest date = keywords = Canada; Frazer; God; Lady; Mary; Mrs.; Nimble; Nurse; Silvy; Velvet; footnote; indian; little summary = a little beaver?" asked the Governor''s [Footnote: Lady Mary''s father was nurse," said the little lady; "I will ask Papa to give him some money." "Dear nurse, why does my little squirrel tremble and look so unhappy? live in an Indian wigwam," said the little lady. little squirrel, and mind that he does not fly away." And Lady Mary was "Nurse," said Lady Mary, "how do you like the story?" very fond of pets; he had a dear little squirrel, just like mine, nurse, a NURSE TELLS LADY MARY ABOUT A LITTLE BOY WHO WAS EATEN BY A BEAR IN THE NURSE TELLS LADY MARY ABOUT A LITTLE BOY WHO WAS EATEN BY A BEAR IN THE "Nurse," said Lady Mary, "I am so glad the good hunter found the little "Ah, dear good old nurse, I will not forget you," said Lady Mary, id = 6813 author = Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland title = Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest date = keywords = Bald; Catharine; Cold; Duncan; Eagle; God; Hector; Island; Jacob; Lake; Louis; Mohawk; Rice; Spirit; Springs; Wolfe; footnote; great; indian; little; water summary = Catharine Maxwell and her cousin Louis were more like brother and Catharine cast a longing look abroad, but said, "I fear I cannot go "Come, Hector,--come, Louis," said Catharine, jumping up, "I long to Hector and Louis carrying the crippled Catharine by turns. pine-woods at the head of the lake, when Hector and Louis, who had "Louis," said Catharine, "is always thinking about canoes, and boats, "Catharine," said Louis one day, "the huckleberries are now very "Indeed," said Catharine, "I fear, Louis, we must wait long for both." One fine day Louis returned home from the lake shore in great haste "Louis, what are you cutting out of that bit OF wood?" said Catharine, Little did Hector know that beyond that dark ridge of pine hills lay words that Hector said were, "Help me, Louis, to lead this poor girl "Hector," said Louis, "you spoke about a jar of water being left at id = 8607 author = Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland title = In the Forest; Or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of Canada: A Tale date = keywords = Canada; Frazer; God; Lady; Lake; Mary; Mrs.; Nimble; Nurse; Silvy; Velvet; indian; little; squirrel summary = nurse," said the little lady; "I will ask Papa to give him some "Dear nurse, why does my little squirrel tremble and look so unhappy? live in an Indian wigwam," said the little lady. little squirrel, and mind that he does not fly away." And Lady Mary "Nurse," said Lady Mary, "how do you like the story?" very fond of pets; he had a dear little squirrel, just like mine, nurse, a "Nurse," said Lady Mary, "I did not think that beavers and racoons could NURSE TELLS LADY MARY ABOUT A LITTLE BOY WHO WAS EATEN BY A BEAR IN THE NURSE TELLS LADY MARY ABOUT A LITTLE BOY WHO WAS EATEN BY A BEAR IN THE bear, that eats little children," said Lady Mary. "Nurse," said Lady Mary, "I am so glad the good hunter found the little "Ah, dear good old nurse, I will not forget you," said Lady Mary, id = 30349 author = Van Schaick, George title = The Peace of Roaring River date = keywords = Carcajou; Ennis; Hugo; Kilrea; Madge; Maigan; Miss; Mrs.; Nelson; New; Papineau; River; Roaring; Sophy; Stefan; York; come; good; little; look; man summary = [Illustration: "God bless you, Madge," said the man. on their way to the great weedy shoals of James'' Bay. The young man had brought with him a couple of heavy packs and some just a little way below the great falls of Roaring River. The little girl came to Madge and rose upon her toes, for a kiss. know what sort of place I would be coming to or--or what sort of man little girl had long straight black hair, great beady eyes and the "Well, you''re getting to be a good deal of a lady''s man, Stefan," said "You''re awfully good, Mrs. Papineau," answered the young man, with the Stefan Olsen, the big man, thought there was no one like him. The man came in, looked at Hugo and rushed out again. "Papineau he tells me in Carcajou it look like you come ofer here to id = 58987 author = Wood, Joanna E. (Joanna Ellen) title = The Untempered Wind date = keywords = Ann; Bing; Carroll; Clem; Deans; Disney; Fletcher; Gamaliel; Hardman; Henry; Holder; Homer; Jamestown; Jed; Mr.; Mrs.; Muir; Myron; Philip; Reverend; Warner; White; Wilson; come; day; eye; good; little; look summary = darted its blasts into the face like sharp-pointed lashes, when Mrs. Deans heard a knock at the side door. These good Jamestown women had a pleasant habit of sitting with Mrs. Holder until Myron''s form appeared at noon or night. Slowly the winter passed, and Mrs. Deans once more hired Myron Holder to come to the farm daily. child was left with old Mrs. Holder, while Myron earned a subsistence one said Myron Holder was very lucky to have won Mrs. Deans'' help. "That--oh, Jed Holder''s Myron," returned Mrs. Deans, assuming the face "Good-night, Mrs. Deans," said Myron, in her soft English voice, and of other lips telling "young Ann White" of Homer Wilson''s badness Mrs. Deans felt it incumbent upon her to act at once, to arise in her The women looked at her curiously when they came that morning, and Mrs. Warner expressed the sentiment of the rest when she said: "That Myron