Studies Toronto During the French Regime. A History of the Toronto Region from Brule to Simcoe, 1615-1793. Illustrated by C.W. Jefferys. The Canadian Historical Series.
Toronto. The Ryerson Press & Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1933. 24cm, xx,¬254p. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being #303, with 22 plates, maps & illustrations, rear folding map, original blue fine grain linen, gilt titles, there are light and polite public library stamps on the title page and endpapers and some throughout in the top text margins Otherwise pretty much fine and clean and scarce. ~~ Toronto during the French Régime owes its beginning to the author's great interest in the historian Du Creux (whose Historiae Canadensis he had translated from the Latin), to his studies of the early maps of the region, and to his knowledge of the Huron language.
The story of the Toronto Carrying-place, and its rôle during the century and a half of French rule before the arrival of Simcoe, is the story of a dramatic and picturesque period in Toronto's past. Sometimes intimately, sometimes remotely, the Toronto Carrying-place was touched by the struggle for the control of the continent waged so long between the French on the St. Lawrence and the Dutch and English on the Hudson. ex-library. Item #43377
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