A boyhood journey: Scotland to Canada in 1853, by Charles R. Peterkin.
Edited by Mary F. Williamson, Charles Peterkin’s great-granddaughter.
Preface by Lucille H. Campey
ISBN 978-1-77136-362-4
100 pages, 60 illustrations
List price: Can $12.95
Preview A Boyhood Journey.
He was 84 years old, and it was 1925 when Charles Robert Peterkin began to recollect the “incidents and adventures” of his youth in Scotland and Canada.
Looking back he remembers a carefree boyhood in Aberdeen, a harrowing crossing on the sailing ship Berbice in 1853 with his widowed father and seven siblings, and his determination to become independent after their arrival in Toronto.
The memoir ends abruptly with 15-year old Charles helping to build a new home for Sir Sandford Fleming’s father at Craigleith on Georgian Bay – a gig which taught him the skills he would need to establish a successful wood turning and planing mill in downtown Toronto.
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