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Newmarket : the heart of York Region : an illustrated history /
In the early 1800s, Timothy Robers, a Quaker millwright from Vermont, drew a flourishing community of fellow Quakers to the area which became the new-market for settles and traders. It soon became the commercial hub of a rich farming area. By the mid-1800s it was a central point on the Ontario, Simc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Canada ; Niagara Falls, N.Y., U.S.A. : New Market, Ont. :
Dundurn Press ; Elm Tree House Publishers,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the early 1800s, Timothy Robers, a Quaker millwright from Vermont, drew a flourishing community of fellow Quakers to the area which became the new-market for settles and traders. It soon became the commercial hub of a rich farming area. By the mid-1800s it was a central point on the Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron Railway. Over the following decades, gas deposits were cofirmed there and a barge canalw as built along with a street railway. In the early 20th century Newmarket languished through a long period of slow growth -- wars and the Depression took a terrible toll on the small town. Yet i. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (page 101) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781554882427 1554882427 9781459713451 1459713451 |