Forests and Clearings - The History of Stanstead County, Province of Quebec, With Sketches of More Than Five Hundred Families

By B.F. Hubbard

This book is a comprehensive history of Stanstead County from the time of the earliest European settlers until 1874 plus more than than 500 family histories/sketches.

Contents include:

• PART I
  • Early History and Settlement
  • County of Stanstead
  • Township of Stanstead
  • Sketches of Marlow Settlers
  • Hatley, by E. H. LeBaron, Esq
  • Magog and Barnston
  • Coaticook and Barford
  • Adventures and Experiences of Pioneers
  • Religious Denominations
  • Stanstead Seminary
  • Academies and High Schools
  • Stanstead Wesleyan College
  • Golden Rule Lodge
    
• PART II
  • Sketches of Families of early Settlers
  • The Family, its relations to society and genealogy
  • The Families of Stanstead
  • The Families of Hatley and Magog
  • The Families of Barnston, Coaticook and Barford
  • Additional families
  • Mrs. Abigail Cass
  • Family Record
  • Notes in Brief
  • General Index
  • Index of Families

Forests and Clearings - The History of Stanstead County, Province of Quebec, With Sketches of More Than Five Hundred Families is overflowing with names, dates and places as well as local history of the community that the earliest settlers and their descendants forged from the wilderness.

Details:

389 pages
6.15" X 9.25"
Illustrations
Map (Stanstead County)
Index of Families
General Index
Hardcover (royal blue textured finish with gilt stamping on spine and front)
Originally published by Lovell Printing and Publishing, Montreal, 1874
This edition reprinted by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2010
ISBN 1-978-1-926797-13-7 (premium hardcover)