The Toronto Carrying Place: Rediscovering Toronto's Most Ancient Trail - Softcover

Turner, Glenn

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9781459730465: The Toronto Carrying Place: Rediscovering Toronto's Most Ancient Trail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459730461 ISBN 13: 9781459730465

Publisher: Dundurn, 2015

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Buried beneath Toronto s streets is a centuries-old trail that was once the road to wealth, adventure, or violent death for thousands of travellers. Now its route lies hidden and forgotten under sidewalks and farmland, though its influence can still be seen. "The Toronto Carrying Place" brings Southern Ontario s most important First Nations trail back to life. Retracing the ancient portage from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe, Glenn Turner reveals the dramatic events and extraordinary characters that marked Toronto s earliest days, and shows how the path played a crucial role in the history of the Wendat (Huron), Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and Mississauga First Nations. Toronto s French and English heritage is also explored, and reminders of the Carrying Place are discovered in unlikely places along its forty-five-kilometre route. Many photographs, maps, and reproductions offer both hikers and armchair voyageurs a look at what remains today of this fascinating portage trail, and an insight into how it has affected the growth of the Greater Toronto Area."

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The well-worn path no longer can be found and is under sidewalks, farm fields and buildings, but the author has turned back the pages of time and revealed details on the important trade route. (Sailor Magazine)

What makes this book outstanding and unique is the author’s skillful blending of historical fact and research with a personal adventure... (Renaissance Magazine)

Turner is an engaging storyteller and this is an idiosyncratic, vivid, and generally informative introduction to the history of this famous trail. (Ontario History)

...very informative and entertaining...the book contains a wealth of information about the trail and the history of people who used it over the centuries... (Swansea Historical Society Newsletter)

About the Author:

Glenn Turner is a teacher-librarian with a career spanning three decades. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines including School Libraries in Canada and Preview. His interest in the Toronto Carrying Place trail stretches back to teenage summers on the banks of the Humber. He lives in Ottawa.

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