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Bibliographic information
| Title | History of the Settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario): With Special Reference to the Bay Quinté |
| Author | William Canniff |
| Contributor | Great Britain. Army. King's Royal Regiment, 2nd Battalion |
| Publisher | Dudley & Burns, 1869 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 671 pages |
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