A boyhood journey: Scotland to Canada in 1853
by Charles R. Peterkin, Edited by Mary F. Williamson
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About the Book
He was 84, and it was 1925 when Charles Robert Peterkin recollected the “incidents and adventures” of his youth in Scotland and Canada. Looking back he fondly remembers a carefree boyhood in Aberdeen before his widowed father decided to emigrate.
The sailing ship Berbice left Aberdeen in April 1853 carrying eight Peterkins bound for Canada. Surviving a “leaky” episode mid-Atlantic, and a collision with a rock in the St. Lawrence, the family settled into Toronto which then harboured 27,000 souls. At age 11 Charles took charge of his life as a farmer’s helper, relishing his independence, hard work, and grabbing any chance to fish, ride horses, and walk for miles.
In the final pages it is 1856. Still a boy, Charles is helping to build a house on Georgian Bay. Here he picks up the skills that led him to future prosperity and the ownership of a large lumber yard in downtown Toronto.
In A Boyhood Journey Charles Peterkin’s recollections are rounded out with the highlights of his adult life. The full text is accompanied by 60 photographs, topographical views, contemporary records, and maps.
The sailing ship Berbice left Aberdeen in April 1853 carrying eight Peterkins bound for Canada. Surviving a “leaky” episode mid-Atlantic, and a collision with a rock in the St. Lawrence, the family settled into Toronto which then harboured 27,000 souls. At age 11 Charles took charge of his life as a farmer’s helper, relishing his independence, hard work, and grabbing any chance to fish, ride horses, and walk for miles.
In the final pages it is 1856. Still a boy, Charles is helping to build a house on Georgian Bay. Here he picks up the skills that led him to future prosperity and the ownership of a large lumber yard in downtown Toronto.
In A Boyhood Journey Charles Peterkin’s recollections are rounded out with the highlights of his adult life. The full text is accompanied by 60 photographs, topographical views, contemporary records, and maps.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
# of Pages: 100 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9781771363624
- Publish Date: May 25, 2015
- Language English
- Keywords Peterkin, genealogy, journal, Aberdeen, Ontario
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About the Creator
Mary F. Williamson
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mary F. Williamson has retired as Fine Arts Bibliographer and Adjunct Faculty in Art History at York University. She has written about 19th c. Canadian wood engravers, book and periodical illustration, the literature of Canadian art and architecture, and cookery of the 19th and early 20th century. Most recently her co-edited, Just a larger family: letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian home front, 1940-1944 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011) won the 2012 Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence in the books category.