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Boiling Syrup
Boiling Maple Syrup

Thomas Herse
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Frontier Stories

“Elizabeth and her daughters would have attended to the countless chores and responsibilities of the family’s day-to-day survival:  looking after the livestock and the kitchen and medicinal gardens; foraging in the fields and forest for plants and fruit; making soap, candles and cloth; tending fires; washing clothes; cooking meals; and cleaning house.”
potatoes
From a carbon print by Braun, Clément & Co John Andrew & Son, Sc
Country Living 1850-1900

Furguson Family Genealogy
Frontier Life in Penetangore

The Official Donnelly Home Page

The Pioneers of Old Ontario

Soldier’s Story: James Ormsby
from Waterloo to Wilderness

Women and the Garden
Catharine Parr Traill – (1802 –1899)


Making Maple Syrup
The Rural Blacksmith

Maple History

Pure Canadian Maple Syrup


Pure Minnesota Maple Syrup:
Sugar Maple Tapping Events

Maple Syrup

"In early spring, when the sap begins to flow, the maple trees are tapped, and vessels hung to catch the sap."
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T.H. Links Page One

Victoria County:
Discovery

"The Northwest Passage...European explorers searched in vain for the passage for 300 years...probing the inhospitable frozen sea and land environments, seeking a commercial route to the Pacific."
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About the 1851 Census

Beginnings of Emily Township, Victoria County, Ontario Canada

Comparisons and Contrasts, Victoria County, Ontario Canada

History of Victoria County -
Part 13

 Verulam Township History
 by Watson Kirkconnel

History of Victoria County -
Part 26

Sketch of Mining, Farming and Lumbering in the North
by Watson Kirkconnell

In Search of Your Canadian Past The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project

Ontario and Upper Canada Genealogy and History

Smith's Canadian Gazetteer  Comprising Statistical and General Information Respecting All Parts of the Upper Province, or Canada West, 1846
...compiled expressly to dispel ignorance and misinformation regarding Canada, particularly in Britain...
 By William Henry Smith
Google Books

Victoria County Ontario GenWeb

Victoria County
Genealogy and History

Thomas Herse Maps

Pork

Pork
"Pigs have large personalities.
A scared pig is very dangerous.
Pigs chew wood
and destroy wooden pens.
Deal with the odor.
Castration - check with an expert.
"




Canadian Barn Barbeque sauce

Curing, cooking, smoking, air drying and freezing
Southern Ontario

Cutting and Curing  Pork

How to Cut and Cure Pork
Mother Earth News

The Pig Site:
Processing a Pig for Meat

Pig Care

Pig Care Sheet

Pork Recipes

Processing Your Own Pork

Small Scale Farming:
Raising Pigs, Curing Pork
 By John and Sally Seymour 1974
 Mother Earth News

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Vintage Illustration of Boars and Hogs from History of the Earth and Illustrated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith, 1850 . 
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