There were brooms of all shapes and sizes long before vacuum cleaners and 'Swiffers'

Upper Canada Village Pt I - the early 1800s

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September 4th 2015
Upper Canada Village (UCV), one of North America’s premier historical re-creations, occupies a 66 acre (c.26 ha) heritage park beside the St. Lawrence River near Morrisburg, Ontario. Opened in 1961, it depicts a typical 19thcentury village and small farms in what was then “Upper Canada”. It shows the sheer tenacity by which its citizens endured and thrived in conditions that we would conside ... read more

North America » Canada » Ontario

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A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the sou... ... read more