Don Valley legacy
Ann Guthrie
John Taylor was born in about 1771. He married Margaret Hawthorne (d. 1824) in England. They had seven children. They immigrated to Canada in 1821 and setteld in the Don Valley.
Read Time: ~3.8 hr
The Tanner letters
by compiled and researched by Pamela Statham (1981)
About this book
William Tanner (1801-1845) married Hester Viveash in 1829, and in 1831 they immigrated to Swan Lake, northwest of what came to be Perth, Western Australia. The Tanners remained at Swan Lake (aside from a visit to England in 1835-1838) until 1844, when they withdrew to England in January 1844. William Tanner's sister Ellen married Charles Videash, and they immigrated in 1831 to Tasmania, Australia. The letters home to England from William and Ellen show the contrast in the two areas, particularly since Swan Lake was the first colony to be established in Australia exclusively for private capitalists and had such a difficult initial development primarily because of lack of money capital--(P. xv).
Setting / LocationLondon & UK
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe Tanner letters Lead Character
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