Author: Andrew Hind
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459751159
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Explore the remnants of vanished villages across Ontario’s cottage country. Crumbling foundations lost in the forest, weathered buildings leaning wearily with age, cracked tombstones jutting from the ground — all serve as haunting reminders of once thriving villages that have since been abandoned. Each of these locales has a distinct story to tell, stories that until now were confined to fading memories and grainy photographs. From the northern shores of Georgian Bay to the eastern reaches of the Kawarthas, Ontario’s cottage country is littered with vanished villages, including settlement-era farm communities, railway whistle-stops, and logging hamlets. Within these pages, readers will venture into Ontario’s past to learn how these communities lived and died and to meet the people who invested their hopes and dreams in them. Dozens of photographs, many historical and never before published, bring these ghost towns back to life. Join Andrew Hind in exploring over a dozen villages across the districts of Parry Sound and Nipissing, Muskoka, and the Haliburton Highlands.
Ghost Towns of Muskoka
Author: Andrew Hind
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
ISBN: 9781525255946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow - or spectre - of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely, having been swallowed by regenerating forests, while others have been reduced to foundations, forlorn buildings, and silent ruins. A few support a handful of inhabitants, but even these towns are wrapped in a ghostly shroud. But this book isn't only about communities that have died. Rather it is about communities that lived, vibrantly at that, if only for a brief time. It's about the people whose dreams for a better life these villages represented; the people who lived, loved, laboured, and ultimately died in these small wilderness settlements. And it's about an era in history, those early heady days of Muskoka settlement when the forests were flooded with loggers and land-hungry settlers.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
ISBN: 9781525255946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow - or spectre - of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely, having been swallowed by regenerating forests, while others have been reduced to foundations, forlorn buildings, and silent ruins. A few support a handful of inhabitants, but even these towns are wrapped in a ghostly shroud. But this book isn't only about communities that have died. Rather it is about communities that lived, vibrantly at that, if only for a brief time. It's about the people whose dreams for a better life these villages represented; the people who lived, loved, laboured, and ultimately died in these small wilderness settlements. And it's about an era in history, those early heady days of Muskoka settlement when the forests were flooded with loggers and land-hungry settlers.
Ghost Towns of Ontario's Cottage Country
Author: Andrew Hind
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459751159
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Explore the remnants of vanished villages across Ontario’s cottage country. Crumbling foundations lost in the forest, weathered buildings leaning wearily with age, cracked tombstones jutting from the ground — all serve as haunting reminders of once thriving villages that have since been abandoned. Each of these locales has a distinct story to tell, stories that until now were confined to fading memories and grainy photographs. From the northern shores of Georgian Bay to the eastern reaches of the Kawarthas, Ontario’s cottage country is littered with vanished villages, including settlement-era farm communities, railway whistle-stops, and logging hamlets. Within these pages, readers will venture into Ontario’s past to learn how these communities lived and died and to meet the people who invested their hopes and dreams in them. Dozens of photographs, many historical and never before published, bring these ghost towns back to life. Join Andrew Hind in exploring over a dozen villages across the districts of Parry Sound and Nipissing, Muskoka, and the Haliburton Highlands.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459751159
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Explore the remnants of vanished villages across Ontario’s cottage country. Crumbling foundations lost in the forest, weathered buildings leaning wearily with age, cracked tombstones jutting from the ground — all serve as haunting reminders of once thriving villages that have since been abandoned. Each of these locales has a distinct story to tell, stories that until now were confined to fading memories and grainy photographs. From the northern shores of Georgian Bay to the eastern reaches of the Kawarthas, Ontario’s cottage country is littered with vanished villages, including settlement-era farm communities, railway whistle-stops, and logging hamlets. Within these pages, readers will venture into Ontario’s past to learn how these communities lived and died and to meet the people who invested their hopes and dreams in them. Dozens of photographs, many historical and never before published, bring these ghost towns back to life. Join Andrew Hind in exploring over a dozen villages across the districts of Parry Sound and Nipissing, Muskoka, and the Haliburton Highlands.
Ghost Towns of Ontario: Northern Ontario & Cottage Country
Author: Ron Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889830202
Category : Ghost towns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889830202
Category : Ghost towns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Guide to Western Ghost Towns
Author: Lambert Florin
Publisher: Seattle : Superior Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Seattle : Superior Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Ghost Towns
Author: Sarah Parvis
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597166707
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Deserted towns are time capsules of the past, and the 11 places explored in this book all have a past marked by tragedy. The Lost Colony, for example, on Virginia’s Roanoke Island, was the first place the English established residence in the new world. But between 1587 and 1590, something went very wrong. All 115 residents, including women and children, simply vanished. Many theories abound about what happened to them, but no one knows for sure. Tales such as these will keep young readers turning the pages as they learn about a fascinating part of history.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597166707
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Deserted towns are time capsules of the past, and the 11 places explored in this book all have a past marked by tragedy. The Lost Colony, for example, on Virginia’s Roanoke Island, was the first place the English established residence in the new world. But between 1587 and 1590, something went very wrong. All 115 residents, including women and children, simply vanished. Many theories abound about what happened to them, but no one knows for sure. Tales such as these will keep young readers turning the pages as they learn about a fascinating part of history.
Ghost Towns of the West
Author: Lambert Florin
Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
A verbal and visual exploration of the West's ghost towns.
Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
A verbal and visual exploration of the West's ghost towns.
Living Ghost Towns
Author: Outlet
Publisher: Crescent
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Crescent
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Ghost Towns of the West
Author: William Carter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Survey of abandoned towns, mostly mining towns, in the West. Well illustrated.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Survey of abandoned towns, mostly mining towns, in the West. Well illustrated.
Ghost Towns of Ontario
Author: Ron Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780969121022
Category : Extinct cities
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780969121022
Category : Extinct cities
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ghost Towns
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghost towns
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes newspaper clippings, etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghost towns
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes newspaper clippings, etc.