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Lifetime: 1842 - 1905 Passed: ≈ 119 years ago

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Author, Traveler

Country/Nationality

Canada

Thomas Conant

Thomas Conant (April 15, 1842 - March 14, 1905) was a Canadian author and world traveler. He was the great grandson of Roger Conant, one of the first settlers to arrive in the Oshawa area in 1792, and father of Gordon Daniel Conant, Mayor of Oshawa and Premier of Ontario.

Books by Thomas Conant

Upper Canada Sketches Cover image

Upper Canada Sketches

History Travel Art
Family Travelling Modern Sketches

This book relates "somewhat random sketches of life in the early settlements and country districts of Upper Canada" (now Ontario), as well as a bit of history of the Conant family from its beginnings in England, to their emigration to what was to bec...