The journals of Mary O'Brien, 1828-1838
By: edited by Audrey Saunders Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Audrey Saunders, ed.
Publisher: Macmillan of Canada
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: O'Brien, Mary Sophia Gapper, 1798-1876.; Ontario -- Social life and customs.
First sentence: Introduction: 
At the end of August in 1828 Mary Sophia Gapper sailed from Bristol Harbour to pay a visit to her two brothers who had taken up land near Thornhill in Upper Canada.
Description: Edited compilation of the Diaries/Journals of Mary O'Brien (nee Gapper) who came to Canada in 1828 and expected to stay a year. Instead, she got married and raised a family starting out in the area of north of Toronto (Thornhill) and eventually settling in the Lake Simcoe area of Shanty Bay.