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The Story Of Brockville: Men and Women Making a Canadian Community on the United States Frontier, 1749-2007

Glenn J. Lockwood

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Description:‘The prettiest village in Upper Canada’ was how more than one early visitor described Brockville. The compliment tended to be made by travellers who never stepped off the steamboat deck to have a closer look. Th attractive early village masked a site lacking many of the natural advantages on which to base a thriving town, and containing such impediments as a granite base.From before its beginnings, geography and history conspired against Brockville becoming a centre of any kind. Although there were some dynamic inhabitants, the early town was notorious for unending litigation, riots, ethnic battles, religious feuding, charivaris and a signal failure to industrialize. And yet, Brockville produced the first Canadian to be knighted, built the first railway tunnel and hosted one of the largest bank robberies in Canadian history. What was more, it led the rest of Eastern Ontario in lobbying for development of the St Lawrence Canals and for inexpensive hydro-electric power to bring industry into the region. Brockville’s ability to generate headlines ranged from electing Canada’s youngest mayor in 1982, to being the focus of a media frenzy in 1989 when a Québec flag was burned at its train station.Given this background, how did one of Canada’s most attractive residential communities develop in a town that into the early 20th century was criticized for having no parks? Glenn Lockwood delves behind the stolid facades and undying myths of this community to discover the curious mix of circumstances that caused Brockville to triumph over its regional rivals and to move beyond its natural limitations and the parochial views of many of its citizens.Along the way we meet a host of unusual characters jostling one another on the pages of this book. They include Robert F. Gourlay, cholera-stricken immigrants, Charles Dickens, rural women migrants, Ku Klux Klan recruiters and dairying champion Eliza Jones – to name a few. The story begins with a Native youth being chased through village streets. It considers why Native leaders, as well as French and British strategists avoided developing the site of Brockville. It moves on to consider the curious dynamic that led to Brockville’s emergence as a centre, despite the superior resources and advantages of its rivals, and to its determination to carve out various hinterlands that kept bringing business into town. Perhaps the most interesting of these was Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People that gave rise to the fortune of the magnificent Fulford Family. Underpinning it all, was the desperation of rural women that kept adding to Brockville’s growth over the years.Brockville’s streets echoed with widespread smuggling and invasion during the War of 1812. They were the setting inspiring the fist published English-language play about an identifiable place in Canada – telling how women were taking control of society. Much quieter were the contrasts between the controlling families and the lives of quiet desperation lived by the underclass. Brockville witnessed the birth of the recreation industry, the heyday of patent medicine,, the arrival of Quarrier Homes child immigrants, and the building of a palatial psychiatric hospital. It witnessed the goings-on of a cast of rogues and heroes, idle rich and idealists, hypocrites and saints, tramps and impoverished. These various strands are pulled together into the larger story of how the Brockville we find today came to be.(-book jacket)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Story Of Brockville: Men and Women Making a Canadian Community on the United States Frontier, 1749-2007. To get started finding The Story Of Brockville: Men and Women Making a Canadian Community on the United States Frontier, 1749-2007, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 660

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Brockville Museum

Release: 2006

ISBN: 0969911122

Description: ‘The prettiest village in Upper Canada’ was how more than one early visitor described Brockville. The compliment tended to be made by travellers who never stepped off the steamboat deck to have a closer look. Th attractive early village masked a site lacking many of the natural advantages on which to base a thriving town, and containing such impediments as a granite base.From before its beginnings, geography and history conspired against Brockville becoming a centre of any kind. Although there were some dynamic inhabitants, the early town was notorious for unending litigation, riots, ethnic battles, religious feuding, charivaris and a signal failure to industrialize. And yet, Brockville produced the first Canadian to be knighted, built the first railway tunnel and hosted one of the largest bank robberies in Canadian history. What was more, it led the rest of Eastern Ontario in lobbying for development of the St Lawrence Canals and for inexpensive hydro-electric power to bring industry into the region. Brockville’s ability to generate headlines ranged from electing Canada’s youngest mayor in 1982, to being the focus of a media frenzy in 1989 when a Québec flag was burned at its train station.Given this background, how did one of Canada’s most attractive residential communities develop in a town that into the early 20th century was criticized for having no parks? Glenn Lockwood delves behind the stolid facades and undying myths of this community to discover the curious mix of circumstances that caused Brockville to triumph over its regional rivals and to move beyond its natural limitations and the parochial views of many of its citizens.Along the way we meet a host of unusual characters jostling one another on the pages of this book. They include Robert F. Gourlay, cholera-stricken immigrants, Charles Dickens, rural women migrants, Ku Klux Klan recruiters and dairying champion Eliza Jones – to name a few. The story begins with a Native youth being chased through village streets. It considers why Native leaders, as well as French and British strategists avoided developing the site of Brockville. It moves on to consider the curious dynamic that led to Brockville’s emergence as a centre, despite the superior resources and advantages of its rivals, and to its determination to carve out various hinterlands that kept bringing business into town. Perhaps the most interesting of these was Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People that gave rise to the fortune of the magnificent Fulford Family. Underpinning it all, was the desperation of rural women that kept adding to Brockville’s growth over the years.Brockville’s streets echoed with widespread smuggling and invasion during the War of 1812. They were the setting inspiring the fist published English-language play about an identifiable place in Canada – telling how women were taking control of society. Much quieter were the contrasts between the controlling families and the lives of quiet desperation lived by the underclass. Brockville witnessed the birth of the recreation industry, the heyday of patent medicine,, the arrival of Quarrier Homes child immigrants, and the building of a palatial psychiatric hospital. It witnessed the goings-on of a cast of rogues and heroes, idle rich and idealists, hypocrites and saints, tramps and impoverished. These various strands are pulled together into the larger story of how the Brockville we find today came to be.(-book jacket)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Story Of Brockville: Men and Women Making a Canadian Community on the United States Frontier, 1749-2007. To get started finding The Story Of Brockville: Men and Women Making a Canadian Community on the United States Frontier, 1749-2007, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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