Homesteads: Early Buildings and Families from Kingston to Toronto

by Mary Byers and Margaret McBurney

West of Herkimer's Nose, a point of land just outside Kingston, three early highways ran to the provincial capital of York - the Danforth Road completed in 1802, the York-Kingston Road finished in 1817, the old Highway 2. Along them sprang up settlements - assemblages of inns, mills, churches, and houses. The Loyalists were early arrivals, followed by immigrant families from across the Atlantic and south of the border. Many of the buildings they erected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487578938
• ISBN13: 9781487578930
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"