Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology (Dundurn Canadian Historical Document Series, 3) - Hardcover

Armstrong, Frederick H.

9780919670921: Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology (Dundurn Canadian Historical Document Series, 3)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 091967092X ISBN 13: 9780919670921

Publisher: Dundurn Press, 1985

A revised and greatly expanded edition of this important and long out of print reference book on Upper Canada to 1841. Similar in format to a A Handbood of British Chronology, this work is a listing of all legislative councillors, and assemblymen, all officials, dates of all parliaments, and judges and court officials. It gives as well, a complete picture of local government: legislation relating to local territorial authorities, lists of countries, districts, cities and townships, and all major officials.

The new edition includes the basic population statistics, a completely revised list of the events fo the War of 1812 and new lists of the events of the Rebellion of 1837 and the Patriot Raids that followed the next year, tables of the provincial and British statutes relating to the incorporation of businesses, the officers of the major Upper Canadian corporations, a complete list of post office officials and post offices, and a list of the provincial surveyors, and the major disasters.

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About the Author:

Frederick H. Armstrong, a graduate of the University of Toronto, is a Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author or editor of numerous books and studies on Upper Canada including a new edition of Henry Scadding's Toronto of Old; Aspects of Nineteenth Century Ontario; and Toronto: The Place of Meeting. He has been awarded the President's Medal of the University of Western Ontario and the Award of Merit of the American Society for State and Local History.

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