Greenbank, Country Matters in 19th Century Ontario by W.H. Graham - 1988

Peterborough, ONT: Broadview Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Cover corners very slightly bumped.. 1988. Softcover. 0921149328 . An absorbing account detailing the social and economic development of rural Ontario. ; quarto; 326 pages .

Broadview Press, 1990. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division, 1990-12-01. Paperback. Good.

Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pp: 326. FIRST EDITION. A complete history of the village of Greenbank, Ontario and the surrounding region. Greenbank is located northwest of Port Perry, and northeast of Uxbridge, roughly half way between. The author records the history by subject; business, religion, education, agriculture. As with most local histories, there is a wealth of genealogical information in this book. The appendices include chapter notes, a bibliography, and index. A very good copy with light wear to the edges of the covers, a gift inscription on the reverse of the front cover. The text is clean and free of markings or notes.

Broadview vii, 326 pp. Life in early Canada. Illustrated with b&w photos and figures. Bright clean copy.

Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1988., 1988 VG tall sc, 28 cm. 326 pages. Clean and bright. "The Stories of these four farms and their families.." Mostly bios and histories of the Cragg, Beare, Ianson and Lee families, this is scholarly book using these families as a general description of 19th century rural Ontario life. . Sc. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Excellent Condition. Inscription by former owner written inside. 326 pgs

Peterborough: Broadview Press [0-921149-32-8] 1988. (Trade paperback) 326pp. Very good. Illustrations, maps, photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. The front cover is lightly creased diagonally across the top corner. "Using the lives of four families as its focus, Greenbank broadens to explore and capture with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early Canada. The remarkable will of the early pioneers, and the disappation of that will in succeeding generations; the creation of an educational system from scratch; the hard-ships of everyday life, and the simple recreations that helped to dispel them; the coming of the railways; the subcurrent of alcohol's influence on the culture, and the fight against it; the harsh ethic of evangelism, which gave shape to so many of the attitudes of the people - all these are current themes in Greenbank". Book about John Beare, David Cragg, Isaac Cragg, Timothy Cragg & John Ianson. Time Period 19th Century. Locale:… Read More