The Story of the Counties of Ontario #252542

HE story of the counties of Ontario is a story of conquest-not of men against men — but of men, with little resource save their own strong arms, iron 'wills and alert intelligence, pitted against wild, beautiful, prolific Nature, and prevailing to subdue the earth. Carving their little farms from the forest primeval, planting their own towns and cities at the meeting-places of mighty waters, making highways of every lake and river and streamlet deep enough to bear up a birch-bark canoe, our Loyalist Pilgrim Fathers, many of whom had been cast out as unworthy by the land of their birth, were privileged, as has often happened with outcasts, to found a new order of things and a new nation.