| Excerpts
from Writings about Early Mennonite Canadians
Dr. John Scott (1835)
Dr. Scott speaks of "the zigzag fences made of split rails
... and the black stumps give a peculiatly sombre and rugged aspect
to the landscape.... Log houses too present a shabby and desolate
appearance and seem but ill calulated to convey those ideas of comfort
and security which ... stone house do."
Adam Ferguson (1830s)
A farm is "from 200-300 acress, laid out into regular fields
and not a stump to be seen. The ploughing was capital, the crops
most luxuriant, and the cattle, hoses, etc. of a superior stamp,
with handsome houses, barns etc. and orchards pormising rich returns."
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