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On 5 July 1841, Thomas Cook escorted around 485 people, who paid one shilling each for the return train journey, on his first excursion. [2] This is sometimes reported as the world's first railway excursion; [ 3 ] however this is incorrect as Grosmont church ( Whitby ) had already organised an excursion as a fund raiser in 1839.
The first organised tours date back to Thomas Cook who, on 5 July 1841, chartered a train to take a group of temperance campaigners from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, 18 kilometres (11 mi) away. By 1872 he was undertaking worldwide tours, albeit with small groups. [1]
A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...
A period map showing the extent of British knowledge of present-day Canada around the time of McLean's birth John McLean was born in Dervaig [ 1 ] or beside the Loch Bà [ 2 ] on the Isle of Mull in Scotland in 1797, [ 2 ] on 24 July 1798, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] in 1799, [ 5 ] or on 14 December 1800.
So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony—New Brunswick—was created in 1784; [102] followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada (French Canada) along the St. Lawrence River and the Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital ...
The HBC was concerned that La Vérendrye and other French entrepreneurs were funnelling the fur trade from Rupert's Land away from the English posts at Hudson Bay. Eventually, James Isham , chief factor at York Fort, suggested an expedition to the western Prairies to encourage First Nations to trade at Hudson Bay. [ 10 ]
Starting in 1986, the Mississaugas opened a land claims settlement process with the Government of Canada to rectify its grievance over the Toronto Purchase and a smaller plot of land near Burlington Bay. [8] In 2010, Canada agreed to pay CA$145 million for the lands, based on the ancient value of the land, extrapolated to current dollars. The ...
J. H. Parry, calling the period the Age of Reconnaissance, argues that not only was the era one of European explorations, but it also produced the expansion of geographical knowledge and empirical science. "It saw also the first major victories of empirical inquiry over authority, the beginnings of that close association of science, technology ...