Hardscrabble: The High Cost of Free Land - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Donna E. Williams, J. Patrick BoyerPublish date:2013-08-06Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:J. Patrick Boyer BookISBN-13:9781459708044ISBN-10:1459708040UPC:9781459708044Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Canada, Europe, North AmericanBook Topic:Post-Confederation (1867-), Great BritainSize:8.96 x 6.08 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCSY86ZFFV
A tale of deception and adversity, Hardscrabble tells how unscrupulous politicians, emigration agents, and philanthropists lured impoverished emigrants to farm the Muskoka backwoods in the 1870s. What these new settlers weren't told was that their land was situated on the rocky Canadian Shield.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:J. Patrick Boyer BookISBN-13:9781459708044ISBN-10:1459708040UPC:9781459708044Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Canada, Europe, North AmericanBook Topic:Post-Confederation (1867-), Great BritainSize:8.96 x 6.08 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCSY86ZFFV
Donna E. Williams is a writer and freelance editor. Following a 30-year career in trade book and magazine publishing, she returned to the University of Toronto and completed an M.A. in history. Hardscrabble is based on her master's thesis. She lives in Toronto.
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