Fred Dickinson’s diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century.
"The stories we hand down, the diaries we preserve become the fabric of our social history. Young Fred Dickinson’s 1904 account of tenting and cottaging is a spirited first-hand sketch of a long-neglected part of our heritage. Larry Turner places the diary within social, historic and geographic contexts giving it wide appeal to history buffs of all ages …."
- Julie Johnston, award-winning author
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.3/82
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Diary written by Fred Dickinson Originally published: Ottawa [Ont.] : Petherwin Heritage, c1996 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 9781770700598
- LCCN
- F1059.R46
- LCCN Item number
- T87 1996eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (135 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603030 (OCoLC)281771917 (CaOOCEL)410498
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 12
- Section 1: The Diary of Fred Dickinson 16
- Section 2: The Context 74
- Chapter 1: Cottage Life in 1904 74
- Chapter 2: Perth, The Tay Canal and Lower Rideau Lake 90
- Chapter 3: The Rideau Fleet: Vessels using the Tay Canal in 1904 101
- Chapter 4: Epilogue 116
- Endnotes 126
