In an article in The Week (Volume XIII, No 51)) dated 13 November 1896 and published in Toronto, there is an article about John Galt. The Week was a Canadian political and literary magazine which ran from 1883 until 1896.
Part of the article is entitled John Galt as a Novelist and describes some of Galt’s literary works reviewed by Howard J Duncan, a lawyer from Woodstock, Ontario. That article is followed by a review of In the Days of the Canada Company – The Story of the Settlement of the Huron Tract and a View of the Social Life of the Period 1825-1850” by Robina and Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars - a fascinating read!
The review of the book states –
“the authors plunge us into the midst of their subject, and very fittingly give us an insight into the life of that magnificently picturesque figure, John Galt”.
and goes on to state with great insight -
“men, and not facts, make history; that to know a period we must know fully the men who made the period. Facts we forget; souls, once known, abide with us forever, and the insight into the lives of John Galt and Tiger Dunlop makes the state on which they acted more vivid to our minds than volumes of bare facts could have done.”
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The Lizars family were related to the Galts. John Galt’s eldest son, John (1814-1866) married Helen Hutcheson Lizars (1820-1896) in 1840. Robina and Kathleen, authors of the book, were her nieces, daughters of her brother Daniel Home Lizars.
