In the 1800s the government of the land that in 1867 would become the Dominion of Canada endeavoured to settle as much of this wilderness country as possible on the basis that a resident population was the best way to strengthen the defenses of the vast territory. The difficulties encountered by the ill-equipped and naive immigrants that were encouraged to leave their home land, mostly Britain, and build a new future in what was described as a wonderful land of opportunity in the Northern Ontario wilderness of Muskoka, Ontario, were enormous. Great suffering, starvation and deprivation was...
In the 1800s the government of the land that in 1867 would become the Dominion of Canada endeavoured to settle as much of this wilderness country as p...
