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Across the Waters
Frances Hoffman and Ryan Taylor

Never in the history of the world has there been a migration such as occurred in the mid-19th century, when vast numbers of citizens from the United Kingdom and Europe left their homelands to seek out new lives in North America. Many of these migrants settled in Ontario. Their experiences are often so far removed from those of our modern-day lives that we tend often to overlook their extraordinary levels of perseverance, sacrifice and selflessness. Authors Frances Hoffman and Ryan Taylor have gathered firsthand accounts of these experiences from letters and diaries. From the day they decided to strike off across the Atlantic to the first harvest in their own clearing, the mosquitos, the fish you could scoop out of the stream with your bare hands, the pride of owning your own land, and the joys of helping a neighbour build a home...