Here and There in the Home Land

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Excerpt from Here and There in the Home Land: England, Scotland and Ireland, as Seen by a Canadian Isles it will prove a profitable companion for a mental trip through the Old Land. Those who wish to know something more of the author's life than is disclosed in Country Life will be interested in learn in, that Canni¿' Height was a descendant of a U. E. Loyalist and was also a direct descendant of one of the Pilgrim Fathers. The family was a Quaker family, of Duchess County, New York, and Mr. Haight's grandfather was one of the first settlers in the Bay of Quinto region of Upper Canada. He and his Quaker neighbors refused to take up arms against their king, not less from adherence to their principles as men of peace, than from the instinct of loyalty, and the ceaseless persecutions and frequent outrages upon their persons and property by the sons of the rebellion, led to the migration of these loyalists to Canada, to found in the wilderness those homesteads which are now honored as historic landmarks by the present generation. The author was born at Adolphustown in 1325, and was educated at the Picton Grammar School and at Victoria College. After studying medicine under Dr. B. 8. Cory, he went into business as a druggist and book-seller at Picton. He was for years Chairman of the School Board and of the Mechanics' Institute there, and in 1842 took part in establishing the am rural library in Oniario. Besides the works before referred to, he prepared a genealogy of the Height family. And was a frequent contributor to the magazines and newspapers. In 1901 he was commissioned to transcribe the records of the Loyalists deposited in the Smith aonian Institution at Washington, _and it was the unsparing labor he devoted to this great work in the torrid heat of that memorable summer that brought on his last illness. He had the consolation - which to him was very great - of being able to end his days in his native province, passing away at the residence of his son, W. R. Height, in Toronto. At the age of seventy-six. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.