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THIS BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT
Price:
$48.95 CAN/$48.95 US
ISBN: 0-9686830-0-2
Year: 2000
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Photos: 280, black and white (See
sample of photos)
Category: Local History
Description:
Northumberland County, a swatch of rolling land sprawled
along the north shore of Lake Ontario, was home to
some of the earliest settlers in Upper Canada. Loyalists
fleeing persecution after the American Revolution
and homesteaders attracted by the offer of free land
poured into the new county in the early part of the
19th century.
Settlers
moved into lakefront lands of Murray, Cramahe, Haldimand,
Hamilton and Hope townships. The Irish, the English
and the Scots came later, moving inland along the
Trent River and over the hills to Rice Lake and beyond.
Immigration from Europe after the Second World War
swelled the numbers of people from non-British backgrounds.
Today refugees from troubled countries around the
world continue to arrive. So, too, do the social "refugees"
from the big cities who seek a more tranquil life
in the smaller towns and rural communities of Northumberland.
In text and pictures Rolling Hills captures the stories
of railway-building, Great Lakes shipping, Prohibition
smuggling, the evolution of education, visits by royalty
and the stars of screen and stage who originated from
Northumberland. It also contains mini-histories of
the county's component municipalities: Alderville
First Nations Territory, Brighton, Campbellford/Seymour,
Cobourg, Colborne, Hastings, Port Hope and the townships
of Alnwick, Brighton, Cramahe, Hamilton, Haldimand,
Hope and Percy.
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