The evil in this world served a purpose that God intended for me to see. I went through many trials in life but now my soul is free. When I sit back and think, about all the things that I've been through, I feel so blessed that I didn't die. I know more than anything that it was God that kept me alive. I thank you, God, for allowing me to express myself in this book may be just one person will walk away from negative people in their world without taking a second look.

PURPOSE AFTER PAIN: Biography Testimony

Biographies & Memoirs

Williams, Donna E.

Community & Culture

Independently published

How emigrants were lured to Ontario’s Muskoka in the 1870s in a vain attempt to farm the Canadian Shield. 
When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario’s Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or reserved for the Aboriginal population. From the beginning, many people vented serious doubts about the free grant scheme, citing the district’s poor agricultural prospects. In the end, such caution was ignored by overeager boosters. The story in Hardscrabble also takes readers to Britain, where emigration philanthropists urged their government to send the country’s poor to Canada, then follows these emigrants as they left the familiar behind to make a new life in the Canadian wilderness. The initial romance of living off the land was soon dispelled as these hapless souls faced clearing the land, building shelters, and sowing crops in desolate, remote locations. Donna Williams’s extensive research leads her to conclude that Muskoka’s experience epitomizes the wrongheadedness of placing already poor people on remote land unsuited for farming.

Hardscrabble: The High Cost of Free Land

History

Americas

A J. Patrick Boyer Book

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