Title: Hardscrabble : the high cost of free land /
Authors: Williams, Donna E,
Publisher: Dundurn Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: British Ontario Muskoka (District municipality) History.; Frontier and pioneer life Ontario Muskoka (District municipality); British Colonization Ontario Muskoka (District municipality); Land settlement Ontario Muskoka (District municipality); Ontario Colonization Muskoka (District municipality); Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality) History.
Abstract: An examination of British emigration to the Muskoka district of Ontario during the nineteenth century.
Contents: Ch. 1. Free Grant Fever -- ch. 2. Setting the Wheels in Motion -- ch. 3. Long Trek to Muskoka -- ch. 4. Pioneering Life -- ch. 5. Hornet's Nest of Dissent -- ch. 6. Styleman Herring's Defection -- ch. 7. Winners and Losers -- ch. 8. Days of Reckoning -- ch. 9. Waning Days of the Free Grant Scheme.