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The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters From the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America (London: C. Knight, 1836), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill- A Brief Account, Together With Observations, Made During a Visit in the West Indies, and a Tour Through the United States of America, in Parts of the Years 1832-3; Together With a Statistical Account of Upper Canada (Dundas, ON: G. H. Hackstaff, 1836), by Thomas Rolph
- Diary of Gov. Simcoe's Journey from Humber Bay to Matchetache Bay, 1793 (extracted from Transactions of the Canadian Institute, 1890), by Alexander Macdonell
- Hints to Emigrants, in a Series of Letters From Upper Canada (Edinburgh: Printed for Waugh and Innes, 1824), by William Bell (HTML at globalgenealogy.com)
- Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush (London: R. Bentley, 1853), by Susanna Moodie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush, by Susanna Moodie (Gutenberg text and audio)
- Roughing It in the Bush (second edition, with additions, 2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie, ed. by Andrew Sly (Gutenberg text)
- Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (first edition; London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1854), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (new and revised edition; Toronto and Montreal: Hunter, Rose and Co.; Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1871), by Susanna Moodie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sketches in Canada, and Rambles Among the Red Men (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852), by Mrs. Jameson
- Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local, and Characteristic: to Which Are Added, Practical Details for the Information of Emigrants of Every Class: and Some Recollections of the United States of America (Edinburgh; London: Oliver & Boyd ... ;G. & W.B. Whittaker ... , 1821), by John Howison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), by Mrs. Jameson
- Winterstudien und Sommerstreifereien in Canada (3 volumes in German; Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1839), by Mrs. Jameson
- Crazy-White-Man (Sha-ga-na-she Wa-du-kee) (Chicago et al.: Rand McNally, c1952), by Richard Morenus, illust. by William Lackey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Canadas in 1841 (London: H. Colburn, 1841-1842), by Richard Henry Bonnycastle
- The Georgian Bay: An Account of its Position, Inhabitants, Mineral Interests, Fish, Timber and Other Resources (Toronto: The Carswell Co., ca. 1893), by James Cleland Hamilton, illust. by Mrs. Jameson, R. S. Cassels, and H. J. Browne (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West, Or, The Experience of an Early Settler (London: R. Bentley, 1853), by Samuel Strickland, ed. by Agnes Strickland
- A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West, in Its Moral, Social, and Political Aspect, With Suggestions Respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, For the Information of Colored Emigrants (1852), by Mary Ann Shadd Cary (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Niagara Park Illustrated: Original and Selected Descriptions, Poems and Adventures (New York: W. T. Hunter, 1888), ed. by Alice Hyneman Sotheran (page images at HathiTrust)
- De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Description of Views of the Falls of Niagara and the City of Jerusalem: Now Exhibiting in the Large Circle of the Panorama, Leicester Square (London: Printed by W. J. Goldbourn, 1851), by Robert Burford, contrib. by Henry Courtney Selous
- Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There (London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751), by John Bartram and Pehr Kalm
- Whirlpool Heights: The Dream House on the Niagara (London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., c1915), by Julia Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Records of the Rise and Progress of the City of Ottawa: From the Foundation of the Rideau Canal to the Present Time (Ottawa: Printed at the Office of the Ottawa Citizen, 1858), by Gertrude Van Cortlandt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- French Canadian Life and Character With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Scenery and Life in Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and Surrounding Country (Chicago: A. Belford, 1899), by George Monro Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Simcoe Relic Among the Thousand Isles in 1796: Fragment of a MS. Journal of Mrs. Simcoe (1896), by Elizabeth Simcoe, ed. by Henry Scadding (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Toronto of Old: Collections and Recollections Illustrative of the Early Settlement and Social Life of the Capital of Ontario (Toronto: Adam, Stevenson and Co., 1873), by Henry Scadding (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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Filed under: Ontario- Statistical Account of Upper Canada: Compiled With a View to a Grand System of Emigration (London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1822), by Robert Gourlay (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Notes on Primitive Man in Ontario (Toronto: Warwick & Rutter, 1895), by David Boyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Notes of Sites of Huron Villages in the Township of Tiny (Simcoe County) and Adjacent Parts, Prepared With a View to the Identification of Those Villages Visited and Described By Champlain and the Early Missionaries (1899), by Andrew Frederick Hunter (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Early Bibliography of the Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, With Other Information; A Supplemental Chapter on Canadian Archaeology (Toronto: Rowsell and Hutchinson; Montreal: E. Picken, 1892), by William Kingsford
- The Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada and Ontario, 1792-1899 (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1900), by D. B. Read
- The Lives of the Judges of Upper Canada and Ontario: From 1791 to the Present Time (Toronto: Rowsell & Hutchison, 1888), by D. B. Read (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad: or, How to Succeed (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1900), by W. A. MacKay
- An Introduction to the Economic History of Ontario from Outpost to Empire (1935), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Statistical Account of Upper Canada: Compiled With a View to a Grand System of Emigration (London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1822), by Robert Gourlay (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Last Laird of MacNab: An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada (Toronto: Imrie, Graham and Co., 1899), by Alexander Fraser (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West, in Its Moral, Social, and Political Aspect, With Suggestions Respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, For the Information of Colored Emigrants (1852), by Mary Ann Shadd Cary (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Imperialist, by Sara Jeannette Duncan (Gutenberg text)
- Whiteoak Harvest (c1936), by Mazo De la Roche (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Whiteoak Brothers (c1953), by Mazo De la Roche (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Jalna (originally published 1927; this edition London: Macmillan, 1929), by Mazo De la Roche (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West, in Its Moral, Social, and Political Aspect, With Suggestions Respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, For the Information of Colored Emigrants (1852), by Mary Ann Shadd Cary (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805-1815: Being the Ridout Letters (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1890), by Thomas Ridout and Matilda Ridout Edgar
- In the Days of the Canada Company: The Story of the Settlement of the Huron Tract and a View of the Social Life of the Period, 1825-1850 (Toronto; Montreal: W. Briggs; C.W. Coates, 1896), by Robina Lizars and Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot (St. Thomas, ON: Times Print., 1895), by James H. Coyne (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letter to Sir Joseph Banks (President of the Royal Society of Great Britain) Written by Lieut.-Governor Simcoe, in 1791, Prior to His Departure From England for the Purpose of Organizing the New Province of Upper Canada (Toronto: Copp, Clark and Co., 1890), by John Graves Simcoe, contrib. by Henry Scadding
- The Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada and Ontario, 1792-1899 (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1900), by D. B. Read
- The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion (2 volumes; Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1885), by John Charles Dent
- The Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe, Wife of the First Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, 1792-6 (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1911), by Elizabeth Simcoe, ed. by J. Ross Robertson (multiple formats at archive.org)
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