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Reluctant pioneer : how I survived five years in the Canadian bush  Cover Image Book Book

Reluctant pioneer : how I survived five years in the Canadian bush / Thomas Osborne ; foreword by Roy MacGregor ; introduction by J. Patrick Boyer ; sketches by George Harlow White. --

Osborne, Thomas, 1859-1948 (Author). Osborne, Thomas, 1859-1948 Night the mice danced the quadrille. (Added Author). White, George Harlow, 1817-1887 (Added Author).

Summary:

An autobiography of Thomas Osborne who spent time in Ontario's Muskoka during the 1870's.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1926577167 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781926577166 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 256 p. : ill.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn, c2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published as: The night the mice danced the quadrille.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 24.99
Subject: Osborne, Thomas, 1859-1948.
Frontier and pioneer life > Ontario > Muskoka (District municipality)
Pioneers > Ontario > Muskoka (District municipality) > Biography.
Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality) > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Stroud Branch 971.31603092 Osbor 31681002620169 NONFICPBK Available -

Thomas Osborne came as a teen in the 1870s from the United States to homestead with his father in Ontario's Muskoka. After five dramatic years he returned to the United States to live and work in Pennsylvania and New York. In 1938 he was killed by an automobile in San Diego, California.


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