Pioneer Life in Zorra
By Rev W. A. MacKay, (1899)

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter I. Zorra in the Thirties
• Chapter II. The Home Life of the Pioneer
• Chapter III. The Pioneer and the Sabbath
• Chapter IV. Gangin' tae the Kirk
• Chapter V. The Men's Day
• Chapter VI. An Old Communion Sabbath
• Chapter VII. The Old Communion Sabbath—"Doing the Word"
• Chapter VIII. The Catechising
• Chapter IX. Pioneer Politics
• Chapter X. Zorra and the Rebellion of '37
• Chapter XI. Logging Bees and Dancing Sprees
• Chapter XII. Pioneer Songs
• Chapter XIII. A Funeral Among the Pioneers
• Chapter XIV. Ghosts, Witches, and Goblins
• Chapter XV. Pioneer Schools and Schoolmasters
• Chapter XVI. Rev. Donald Mackenzie, the Pioneer Preacher of Zorra
• Chapter XVII. Rev. Lachlan McPherson of Williams
• Chapter XVIII. John Ross of Brucefield
• Chapter XIX. Rev. Daniel Allan of North Easthope
• Chapter XX. Rev. John Fraser, M.A., of Thamesford
• Chapter XXI. Rev. William Meldrum of Harrington
• Chapter XXII. Rev. Daniel Gordon
• Chapter XXIII. Pioneer Methodism in Zorra
• Chapter XXIV. Zorra's Famous Missionary
• Chapter XXV. What Shall the Harvest Be?

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Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad
By Rev. W. A. MacKay, B.A., D.D. (1900) (pdf)

Three of them are to-day millionaires, or within sight of that coveted goal; three are senators in the United States; two are presidents of colleges, one in England and one in the United States; one is a professor in an American college and one in a Canadian college; another was appointed to a professor’s chair but death intervened; one was a member of the Dominion Parliament, and after him, a second; and on his death, a third was elected, and he is to-day a member of the Dominion Cabinet; one is at the head of the largest departmental store in the world; one is a liberal patron of the fine arts; one is the most famous missionary in the world, while two others are intimately associated with him in the same work; one is "Ralph Connor,” the popular author; one is an inventor of wide reputation; several are prominent lawyers; two or three dozen are physicians, and about twice that number are clergymen. Of the latter, six have the degree of B. A., four that of M.A., two Ph.D., and nine D.D.

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