The Father Of British Canada A Chronicle Of Carleton PDF Download

Excerpt from The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton Guy carleton, first Baron Dorchester, was born at Strabane, County Tyrone, on the 3rd of September 1724, the anniversary of Cromwell's two great victories and death. He came of a very old family of English country gentlemen which had migrated to Ireland in the seventeenth century and intermarried with other anglo-irish families equally devoted to the service of the British Crown. Guy's father was Christopher Carle ton of Newry in County Down. His mother was Catherine Ball of County Donegal. His father died comparatively young and, when he was himself fifteen, his mother married the rector of Newry, the Reverend Thomas Skelton, whose in uence over the six step children of the household worked wholly for their good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."