The Canadian

Step inside a Victorian Canadian home where the parlour the fields and the ledger all matter equally. Wisdom for every Canadian home.A sweeping Canadian home and farm cyclopaedia William Brown's The Canadian: Home Farm and Business gathers in one household encyclopedia of knowledge everything a family of its era was expected to know: the art of making home happy etiquette and good society home amusements and out-door sports the science and practice of Canadian farming and homesteading and the essentials of bookkeeping and business correspondence. It is a practical farming and business manual a guide to homesteading and self sufficiency and a richly detailed reference for Canadian families interested in soil livestock gardens work play and social grace.For modern readers it opens a vivid window onto historic Canadian farm life and the rhythms of a Victorian home and farm while also remaining a surprisingly useful self education at home resource on manners money and management. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Ideal for casual readers of social history as well as collectors of old fashioned etiquette manuals and classic household compendia this enduring volume belongs on the shelf of anyone fascinated by how earlier generations built lives farms and businesses from the ground up.