CONTENTS

I     TRACING THE VEIN [Ancestry, born 1859]

II     IS IT REAL GOLD OR ONLY "FOOL'S GOLD"?  [Early childhood in Bristol]

III     MEETING GOD'S MAN [St Peter's Hospital and Mr Hughes]

IV     THEY ARE STILL DIGGING FOR GOLD [1871 London, travel by ship and train to Belleville]

V     PROSPECTING  [Marchmont Home, to the farm, Colborne?]

VI     ON LEARNING HOW  [Farm life]

VII     DID I FIND GOLD?  [Meager pay]

VIII     I DISCOVER A GOLD MINE  [Finding religion]

IX     THE WORKINGS OF THE MINE AND OF THE SPIRIT  [1877 School, local preaching]

X     SURPRISES AT THE MINE HEAD  [Entry to teacher training]

XI     I AM IN CHARGE  [1879 Teaching and preaching]

XII     PIONEERING AND PROSPECTING  [1881 York River Mission (Bancroft)]

XIII     A QUEENS SCHOLAR ARRIVES  [A visitor]

XIV     WITH EXTENDED ORDERS  [1882 Ordained and moved]

XV     ON THE SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO  [1883 Victoria University, Cobourg]

XVI     A DREAM  [1886 Preaching, and marriage to Sarah Emily Miller]

XVII     AMONG SEVEN HILLS  [1887 Minden. Winnifred born 1890]

XVIII     FOR WHAT SHALL I LIVE?  [1890 Napanee Mills, another move, outside tasks, Edith born 1891, visits to Ottawa and Chicago, PhD 1893]

XIX     THE DISCOVERER  [1893 Adolphustown, Holly born. 1894 Bath, visit to England, 1896 Wilfred born (suffered an accidental death in 1926)]

XX     IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS  [1897 Sutton, visits to Cape Breton and Northfield]

XXI     WHERE I DID NOT WANT TO GO  [1900 Cobden? or Shawville?]

XXII     CURIOUS MOVEMENTS  [1902 Cobden? Bicycle, literary club]

XXIII     ARE MY HOPES REALISED?  [1903 Kingston]

XXIV     LOOKING FOR GOLD IN A CLAY FLAT  [1904 St Johns (now St-Jean)]

XXV     NEARING MY GOAL  [1907 Montreal, 1909 All People's Mission. 1910 Resignation from Methodism]

XXVI     THE DAWN OF THE MONTREAL CITY MISSION  [1910 The Mission, visits to England. 1913 Visit by Governor General. 1914 Great War. 1934 last trip to England. 1934 died in Bristol]

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