Much to Be Done: Private Life in Ontario From Victorian Diaries (2nd Edition)

Victorian Ontario included people from all walks of life fromhomeless beggars to wealthy gentry. In Much To Be Done we glimpsehow life was lived in 19th-century Ontario, not only in the grandmansions, but also in the farm houses and streets where ourancestors lived.This publication could be your great-grandmother's story,following the cycle of life from courtship to childbirth tocelebration and death. Diaries, with some contributions fromletters, newspapers and reminiscences, provide a fresh andcontemporary viewpoint. Much To Be Done promotes a historicalunderstanding which links people of today with the Ontario of thepast.