How Long to Read Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat

How Long Does it Take to Read Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat by Gaye I Clemson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In early 1896, just as the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (O.A.& PS) was nearly finished, Edson Chamberlin, the then General Manager of the Canada Atlantic Railway (C. A. R.) was granted by the Ontario Government over 25,000 acres of patent land around Victoria Lake. East of the newly created Algonquin National Park his intent was to build a hunting lodge and use the area as his own personal recreation reserve. This desire to experience the wilderness was part of a growing movement where people (mostly men) headed to the wilds in order to escape their urban lives and industrial jobs. The idea was to leave the Victorian perspectives of gentility, respectability, self-mastery and restraint (to a fault sometimes) behind and recapture a rougher, more primitive identity in a frontier environment. Soon after, Chamberlin built himself a hunting lodge on the south end of the lake and transferred some of the lots to business partner (and one presumes friend) Col. Edward Curtis Smith the then President of the Central Vermont Railway. Like Chamberlin, Smith loved the outdoors and in 1897, built himself a large ten-bedroom and five-bathroom lodge on the north end of the lake, which he named Camp Madawaska. Two years later he was elected Governor of the State of Vermont and served for a standard two-year term. Nearly ten miles from the closest town and the railway line, this narrative captures the story of Smith, his lodge and the family, (Wilmot and Victoria Hamilton) who with their 15 children were the lodge and the lake's caretakers and protectors for over 50 years.

How long is Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat?

Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat by Gaye I Clemson is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat aloud.

What Reading Level is Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat?

Governor Smith's Ontario Retreat is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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