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Alexander Wood. Undated portrait of Wood by Henry Raeburn. Born. January 1772. Fetteresso, Scotland. Died. 11 September 1844 (aged 72) Woodcot, Scotland. Alexander Wood (January 1772 – 11 September 1844) was a Scottish merchant and magistrate in Upper Canada who was the centre of a sex scandal in 1810.
v. t. e. Timber rafts by Parliament Hill in 1882. The Ottawa River timber trade, also known as the Ottawa Valley timber trade or Ottawa River lumber trade, was the nineteenth century production of wood products by Canada on areas of the Ottawa River and the regions of the Ottawa Valley and western Quebec, destined for British and American markets.
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the Family Compact in December 1837, ... Alexander Wood in 1821, ...
The most popular type of domestic dwelling in Loyalist Upper Canada in the late 18th century was the log house or the wood frame house (or, less commonly, the stone house). When homes were heated, it was by a fireplace burning wood or a cast-iron wood stove, which was also used for cooking, and they were lit by candlelight or whale oil lamp.
e. The history of the lumber industry in the United States spans from the precolonial period of British timber speculation, subsequent British colonization, and American development into the twenty-first century. Following the near eradication of domestic timber on the British Isles, the abundance of old-growth forests in the New World posed an ...
Historical reenactment at Upper Canada Village. Upper Canada Village endeavours to depict life in a rural English Canadian setting during the year 1866. [1] Featured at the site are over 40 historical buildings, including several working mills (woollen mill, grist-mill and sawmill) and trades buildings (blacksmith, tinsmith, cabinetmaker, cooper, bakery, cheese-maker).
Canadian citizenship. The Petworth Emigration Scheme was an initiative sponsored by the Earl of Egremont and promoted by Thomas Sockett, Anglican Rector of Petworth. [1] It sent around 1800 working-class people from southern England to Upper Canada between 1832 and 1837. [2]
The Canadas is the collective name for the provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, two historical British colonies in present-day Canada. [3] The two colonies were formed in 1791, when the British Parliament passed the Constitutional Act, splitting the colonial Province of Quebec into two separate colonies.