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Township of Dummer, 1993. Octavo, teal boards, pp. [viii], 296, [4] pp. of advertisements for local businesses. Illustrated and with map endpapers. Near fine in dust jacket. .
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Origins -- The History of Dummer Township Hardcover - 1993
by Cole, Jean Murray
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- Title Origins -- The History of Dummer Township
- Author Cole, Jean Murray
- Binding Hardcover
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- Publisher Dummer (Township of), Dummer, ON.
- Date 1993
- ISBN 9780969748106
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Dummer, Ontario: Dummer (Township of), 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. blue cloth, gilt spine,296 pages : illustrations, maps, map end papers,"Dummer township differs from its neighbours in many ways. Perhaps most significant is its geology - the limestone outcroppings and the drumlins and eskers of the Dummer moraine which created a unique challenge for the earliest settlers who attempted to farm the land. But equally important was the character and quality of those settlers themselves - largely self-sufficient, independent yeoman stock from England and Scotland, with a smaller number of Irish families. Little has been written about the groups of English and Scottish settlers who found their way to Peterborough County as part of the great wave of immigration to Canada in the early 1830s. Of the latter group, some 2000 came to Dummer in 1831 and 1832. Although the township had been surveyed in 1823, no attempt was made to populate it until…
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