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Another Country, Another Life

Calumny, Love, and the Secrets of Isaac Jelfs

J. Patrick Boyer
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Pages
328
Year
2013
Language
English
Publisher
Dundurn Press

About

A young law clerk from England falls in love in 19th-century New York and reinvents himself in Canada. Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scape-goated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home - the remote wilderness of Muskoka - he crafted yet another persona for himself. In Another Country, Another Life, his great-grandson traces that long-hidden journey, exposing Isaac Jelfs' covered tracks and the reasons for his double life.

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  • Legal History
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  • Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Canada
  • History

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