'Another world'
Subtitle: William Ord Mackenzie's sojourn in the Canadas, 1839-1843
By: edited by Sandra Alston and Cicely Blackstock
Contributors: Alston, Sandra, editor; Blackstock, C. M, editor; Champlain Society
Series: Publications of the Champlain Society -- 76; Publications of the Champlain Society -- 76.
Publisher: The Champlain Society
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781487510862
Subjects: Diaries; Travel; Surgeons; Sources; Social life and customs; Politics and government; Economic conditions; Natural history; Description and travel; Armed Forces; Economic history; Manners and customs; Great Britain. Army; Great Britain
Notes: "On February 11, 1839, a twenty-three-year-old recently graduated British army surgeon began his first posting abroad, to Canada--a voyage to "another world." William Ord Mackenzie's account of that journey and that posting, from February 1839 to October 1843, is documented in an extraordinarily vivid journal. Written in five volumes, sent to the family home in Edinburgh as each was completed, the journal presents a fascinating glimpse into post-Rebellion Canada-its politics, its people, both important and well-known, and many unknown to the modern reader, its geography and natural history, its weather, its social and economic life."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.