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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