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Journal of Richard Parr [textual record (microform)]

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Date:

1819-1821.

Reference:

MG24-H70

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

117061

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Journal of Richard Parr
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Date(s):

1819-1821.

Place of creation:

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Extent:

1 microfilm reel.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of a journal of travels in the United States of America and Canada made between 1819 and 1821 by Richard Parr. The Canadian element consists of visits by road and river to Montreal, Quebec, Toronto and Niagara Falls, 7 July to 31 August 1820 and to Saint John, Fredericton and St. Andrews, 27 September to 24 October 1820.

His daily observations are lively and acute, and contain interesting details on life in Lower and Upper Canada; particularly noteworthy is his passage up the St. Lawrence from Montreal via Lancaster, Prescott, Kingston and Cobourg which includes a dramatic description of the shipwreck of an emigrant vessel on the Duck Rocks, 14 August 1820. Included with the journal is a copy of a letter 4 July 1782, from Joseph Cunliffe to his brothers and sisters who included Parr's father-in-law John Cunliffe, 3 pages. The journal is in three volumes, totalling 981 pages.

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MG24-H70
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Microfilm reel A-1053

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