tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132898085410789426.post4964439608621106469..comments2024-03-23T05:35:06.468-04:00Comments on ancestral roofs: Hoodless in HamiltonAncestral Roofshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755249835071665091noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132898085410789426.post-18579243910551315452015-03-23T18:23:06.528-04:002015-03-23T18:23:06.528-04:00Imagine if you wanted to get to the shore of Lk On...Imagine if you wanted to get to the shore of Lk Ontario. .....you could see it very easily, but getting there was another story altogether b/c the escarpment runs for miles and miles. I have a feeling that maybe there's a fork in the elevation somewhere to the east.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132898085410789426.post-81387488363221654172015-03-23T17:52:44.625-04:002015-03-23T17:52:44.625-04:00I don't know the topography well enough to kno...I don't know the topography well enough to know how they would have gotten there - is there a back way that's flat? I'm comparing a trek up the escarpment to the relatively low moraine which held early settlers in Port Hope/Cobourg/Brighton close to the front for a generation. I'm reading a journal of an early settler in Muskoka - we should be able to find similar stuff from early settlers of the 'Golden Horseshoe.' Ancestral Roofshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755249835071665091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132898085410789426.post-89568339653889232692015-03-23T17:41:45.307-04:002015-03-23T17:41:45.307-04:00I watched the video in the article and was surpris...I watched the video in the article and was surprised to hear that the core of the house was an 1808 log cabin ! Its hard to imagine that little bldg. sitting there, on the precipice, in 1808. Today you can literally see Toronto from the escarpment, but in 1808 Toronto must have seemed like a million miles away. No railway. No lights or electricity. Very few roads. Just wilderness and the prospect of war as the U.S. and Britain began squabbling in the run-up to 1812.<br /><br />I often wonder what the old Upper Canada must have looked like in places like Niagara, Toronto or PEC. Ontario has grown so much that it's hard to put yourself there.....Marknoreply@blogger.com