Contents, The Bruce

PREFACE — Birth of a book — The film — Sources — About the author — Acknowledgements

PART ONE: THE FISHING CHIEFS

1   Victory of the Three Fires
A diverse landscape — The Bruce emerges from the ice — Camps and villages in early times — Beaver Wars — Council of Three Fires — Battle of Skull Mound — After the fall

2   Saugeen Ojibway homeland
A time of peace — Making the rounds — A vital fishery — Guidance of the Fishing Chiefs — End of the time of peace — A tale of two villages — A promise of houses — Immigrants welcome — Nahnebahwequay's story — Treaties and land loss — Saugeen Ojibway Nation

3   European and Métis traders
Métis Coming of the fur traders — Pierre Piché — Hudson's Bay Company — Métis traders come to Saugeen territory — Independent fur traders

4   Arrival of the missionaries
The Saugeens welcome Methodist missionaries — Rev. Peter Jones — Chief Kegedonce, the orator — John Benham, missionary — First sawmill — Day schools and residential schools

5   Commercial fishing
McGregor of Goderich — Huron Fishing Company — Niagara Fishing Company — European encroachers — 1847 Proclamation from Queen Victoria — Kennedy and Spence — Métis coopers of Southampton — Some founding Métis families

6   Treaties shrink Saugeen territory
Royal Proclamation, 1763 — Treaty 451/2, 1836 — Carving the Half-mile Strip, 1851 — Anderson's attempt at the Saugeen surrender — Oliphant and Treaty 72, 1854 — Irregularities — A boundary dispute resolved, 1855 — Nawash: Treaty 82, 1857 — Colpoy's Bay: Treaty 93, 1861 — Island treaties: 1885 to 1899

PART TWO: THE LAST FRONTIER

7   A diverse county
Immigrants seek the last frontier — A county built on diversity — Black history — Chinese entrepreneurs

8   Survey and land sale
Surveying the Queen's Bush — Surveyor Vidal — A surprise for the Kennedys — Surveying roads and lots — Founding Walkerton — Surveying the townships — Alexander McNabb, Crown Lands agent — The Great Land Sale of 1854 — Peninsula land sales

9   Settling the Queen's Bush
How to start a home in the bush — From trees to ash — Homemade fertilizer and soap — Learning the skills — Ojibway neighbours — A fragile hold on the wilderness — The wreck of the Saucy Jack — The starvation year — Perilous pioneering

10   Farms, the basis of prosperity
A prosperous farm — How to build a barn — How to burn down a barn — Harvest — To market — Ice harvesting — Beef rings — Maple syrup — Sweet beets

11   Life on the farm
Tools of the kitchen — Feeding the family — Home recipes — Self-supporting — Barter system — Bees: neighbours work together — Winter distractions — Pioneer women: the missing history — The hard life of a pioneer woman — Women's Institutes

12   A social life
Warming up at the tavern — Heyday of Kincardine hotels — Distilleries and breweries — Demon rum — Prohibition — Bootleggers of Bruce County — As told to Bruce Krug — McClevis saves the whiskey jug — McClevis makes his big arrest — The rattlesnake story: true or false? — Tracking the murderer of Stephen Neubecker

13   Powering a county
Water power — Ox and horse power — Steam power for mills and ships — Sawmills in the Queen's Bush — Sawmills on the Peninsula — Early grist mills of Bruce County — Woollen mills

14   The resourceful individual
Blacksmith — Storekeeper and wagon maker — Cooper — Repairman — A clock of renown — Fanning mill maker — Threshing machines

15   Business diversifies
The economy grows — Milk for creamery and cheese factory — Tanneries used hemlock bark — Casting metal in the foundry — To Kincardine for salt — Curative mineral water — Making brushes and brooms — Bricks for building — Communication by telegraph — Telephone service — Electric light lit the night — Destroyed by fire

16   From trail to rail
How to travel through the bush — Passage down the Saugeen — Travel by lake — Muddy roads — When the postman had to walk — Stagecoach — Automobile — Iron horse — The winter the train stopped — Yeast by air — The electric railway swindle — Great railway companies of the Bruce — Spring floods threaten Saugeen country

17   Religion and education
Religion in the countryside — Methodist mission to the Saugeen Ojibway — Methodist mission to the settlers — Presbyterian — Church of England — Roman Catholic — Baptist — One-room schools — Vignettes from the old school days — Bruce County House of Refuge

18   The lumber business
Logging the Bruce Peninsula — A burned-out peninsula — In the lumber camp — Hiram Lymburner — Cargill's swamp empire

19   When furniture was king
Birth of the furniture industry — The great furniture companies — Krug Bros.

20   Tales from a stormy coast
Shipwrecks of the Bruce — Griffon — General Hunter — A risky coast — Explorer — From sail to steam — Lighthouses — Safe harbours — Weather observers — Storm warning signals — Storm of 1913

21   Migration and celebration
Population of Bruce County — A mobile population — Reunions on a grand scale — Meet at Kincardine

22   Defending the homeland
Volunteers of Bruce — Fenian Raid, 1866 — 32nd Bruce Battalion — Victoria Cross winner in 1858 — Red River Rebellion, 1870 — North-West Rebellion, 1885 — Boer War, 1899-1902 — First World War, 1914-1918 — Second World War, 1939-1945 — After the war

PART THREE: THE PEACEFUL PATH

23   Tourism in the Bruce
Pleasure boating — Picnics and summer holidays — Southampton as a summer resort — Dance pavilions — Summer houses at Oliphant — Cottaging at Sauble Beach — Tobermory: of rocks and wrecks

24   The Bruce goes nuclear
Power dilemma — Clearing Douglas Point — Bruce A and B — Economic and social impact

25   Nature conserved
A resilient environment — Passenger pigeons — Impact of clear-cutting — Famous naturalists — Bird banding — Dorcas Bay — Greenock Swamp — Cliff dwellers of the Bruce — Bruce Trail — Niagara Escarpment Commission

26   National parks
Nature preserved at two national parks — Bruce Peninsula Environment Group — Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association — A volunteer ethic — Volunteers restore Chantry Island buildings

27   The Ojibway path forward
An elusive prosperity — The fight for the fishery — Ojibway commercial fishing — The Fisheries Act — Jones and Nadjiwon — Remedying injustice — An alliance with archaeology

28   Métis rediscover their past
Métis during settlement — Métis today

29   Challenge and vision
A challenging outlook — A vision of the way forward

APPENDICES
      Appendix A: Making "The Bruce"
      Appendix B: Bruce County Historical Society
      Appendix C: The Bruce Krug manuscripts
      Appendix D: Leaders
      Appendix E: Bruce County townships, towns and villages
      Appendix F: Documentary sponsors

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