Publications, Volum 5

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The Society., 1902
 

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Side 460 - History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history...
Side 480 - Report of a select committee of the House of Assembly, on the political state of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.
Side 148 - We were provided with three horses, on one of which my mother rode, carrying her infant, with all the table furniture and cooking utensils. On another were packed the stores of provisions, the plough irons and other agricultural tools. The third horse was rigged out with a...
Side 488 - A letter to Her Majesty the British Queen, with letters to Lord Durham, Lord Glenelg and Sir George Arthur : To which is added an appendix embracing a report of the testimony taken on the trial of the writer by a court martial, at Toronto in Upper Canada.
Side 67 - Foster and major Hall, but owing to the narrowness of the passage up to the bastion, admitting only two or three men a-breast, it failed. It was often repeated, and as often checked.
Side 175 - Whisky, therefore, was the most important item of remittance to pay for their salt, sugar and iron. The people had cultivated their land for years at the peril of their lives, with little or no protection from the Federal government; and when, by extraordinary efforts, they were enabled to raise a little more grain than their immediate wants required, they were met with a law restraining them in the liberty of doing what they pleased with the surplus. The people of Western Pennsylvania regarded a...
Side 7 - My hearing that the Rebels had cut the King's head off the Equestrian Statue (in the Centre of the Ellipps, near the Fort) at New York, which represented George the 3rd in the figure of Marcus Aurelius, and that they had cut the nose off, dipt the laurels that were wreathed round his head, and drove a musket Bullet part of the way through his Head, and otherwise disfigured it, and that it was carried to Moore's tavern, adjoining Fort Washington, on New York Island, in order to be fixed on a Spike...
Side 441 - Sketches of Canadian Life, Lay and Ecclesiastical, illustrative of Canada and the Canadian Church. By a PRESBYTER of the DIOCESE of TORONTO. Post 8vo, 6s.
Side 256 - ... mile. 4,081 feet is built with a coping, 1,319 is built without the coping, and foundation is laid without anything above it for 321 feet more, leaving about 1,020 feet of the original design upon which nothing has been done. The part of the wall which has been erected under the late Major Tardy's charge is much better constructed than any of the previous work.

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