Author: Andrew Hind
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773110004
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Exploring Hidden Muskoka is a book that will assist readers in exploring locations of historical and natural interest throughout Muskoka, revealing a side to this popular region that few tourists and cottagers appreciate. The book is an entertaining yet practical tool to assist in exploration and sightseeing in the region. There are three maps that trace driving routes through the region, highlighting dozens of places of interest along the way. "--
Exploring Hidden Muskoka
Author: Andrew Hind
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773110004
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Exploring Hidden Muskoka is a book that will assist readers in exploring locations of historical and natural interest throughout Muskoka, revealing a side to this popular region that few tourists and cottagers appreciate. The book is an entertaining yet practical tool to assist in exploration and sightseeing in the region. There are three maps that trace driving routes through the region, highlighting dozens of places of interest along the way. "--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773110004
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Exploring Hidden Muskoka is a book that will assist readers in exploring locations of historical and natural interest throughout Muskoka, revealing a side to this popular region that few tourists and cottagers appreciate. The book is an entertaining yet practical tool to assist in exploration and sightseeing in the region. There are three maps that trace driving routes through the region, highlighting dozens of places of interest along the way. "--
Hidden Ontario
Author: Terry Boyle
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554889561
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Terry Boyle unveils the eccentric and bizarre in these mini-histories of Ontario’s towns and cities: the imposter who ran the Rockwood Asylum in Kingston; Ian Fleming’s inspiration for James Bond; the Prince of Wales’s undignified crossing of Rice Lake; the tragic life of Joseph Brant; the man who advertised his wife’s death before poisoning her; as well as Ontario’s first bullfight and the answer to the question, "Why did so many lumberjacks sport beards?" The colourful characters, Native legends, and incredible tales that make up our province’s fascinating past come alive in Hidden Ontario. From Bancroft, Baldoon, and Brighton to Timmins, Toronto, and Trenton, find out more about the Ontario you thought you knew.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554889561
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Terry Boyle unveils the eccentric and bizarre in these mini-histories of Ontario’s towns and cities: the imposter who ran the Rockwood Asylum in Kingston; Ian Fleming’s inspiration for James Bond; the Prince of Wales’s undignified crossing of Rice Lake; the tragic life of Joseph Brant; the man who advertised his wife’s death before poisoning her; as well as Ontario’s first bullfight and the answer to the question, "Why did so many lumberjacks sport beards?" The colourful characters, Native legends, and incredible tales that make up our province’s fascinating past come alive in Hidden Ontario. From Bancroft, Baldoon, and Brighton to Timmins, Toronto, and Trenton, find out more about the Ontario you thought you knew.
Ghost Towns of Muskoka
Author: Andrew Hind
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459712285
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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 isnt only about communities that have died. Rather it is about communities that lived, vibrantly at that, if only for a brief time. Its 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 its about an era in history, those early heady days of Muskoka settlement when the forests were flooded with loggers and land-hungry settlers.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459712285
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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 isnt only about communities that have died. Rather it is about communities that lived, vibrantly at that, if only for a brief time. Its 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 its about an era in history, those early heady days of Muskoka settlement when the forests were flooded with loggers and land-hungry settlers.
Canoeing and Hiking Wild Muskoka
Author: Hap Wilson
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN: 9781550463392
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide book to the less-traveled regions of Ontario between Georgian Bay and the Algonquin highlands featuring 80 hand-drawn maps. Both easy day trips and much more adventurous trips are covered.
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN: 9781550463392
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide book to the less-traveled regions of Ontario between Georgian Bay and the Algonquin highlands featuring 80 hand-drawn maps. Both easy day trips and much more adventurous trips are covered.
Making Muskoka
Author: Andrew Watson
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774867868
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Muskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, settler colonialism upended Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee communities, but the land was unsuited to farming, and within the first generation of resettlement, tourism became an integral feature of life. Andrew Watson considers issues such as rural identity, tensions between large- and household-scale logging operations, and the dramatic effects of consumer culture and the global shift toward fossil fuels on settlers’ ability to control the tourism economy after 1900. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774867868
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Muskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, settler colonialism upended Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee communities, but the land was unsuited to farming, and within the first generation of resettlement, tourism became an integral feature of life. Andrew Watson considers issues such as rural identity, tensions between large- and household-scale logging operations, and the dramatic effects of consumer culture and the global shift toward fossil fuels on settlers’ ability to control the tourism economy after 1900. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.
Ghost Towns of Muskoka
Author: Andrew Hind
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550027964
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The authors explore the tragic history of communities whose stars have long since faded, and the people who once lived, loved, and laboured in them.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550027964
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The authors explore the tragic history of communities whose stars have long since faded, and the people who once lived, loved, and laboured in them.
Backroads of the Great American West
Author:
Publisher: Back Roads
ISBN: 0760369976
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Backroads of the Great American West describes and details with full-color photos and maps the most scenic routes in the Rocky Mountains, Texas, Desert Southwest, California, and Pacific Northwest.
Publisher: Back Roads
ISBN: 0760369976
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Backroads of the Great American West describes and details with full-color photos and maps the most scenic routes in the Rocky Mountains, Texas, Desert Southwest, California, and Pacific Northwest.
Undocumented
Author: Tings Chak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780994050762
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using comics, interviews, and architectural sketches, �Undocumented� explores a growing industry in an era of militarized borders, state surveillance, and criminalized migration. Originally released in 2014 to an architectural audience, this special edition from Ad Astra Comix features an updated afterword by Syed Hussan (No One Is Illegal, Toronto), as well as an interview with a former detainee. Focusing on Canada�s migrant detention system, where detainees are often held in maximum security prisons without charges for indefinite periods of time, 'Undocumented' draws chilling conclusions about the societies that tolerate these punitive spaces of confinement. Proceeds from the sale of each book go to the End Immigration Detention Network.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780994050762
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using comics, interviews, and architectural sketches, �Undocumented� explores a growing industry in an era of militarized borders, state surveillance, and criminalized migration. Originally released in 2014 to an architectural audience, this special edition from Ad Astra Comix features an updated afterword by Syed Hussan (No One Is Illegal, Toronto), as well as an interview with a former detainee. Focusing on Canada�s migrant detention system, where detainees are often held in maximum security prisons without charges for indefinite periods of time, 'Undocumented' draws chilling conclusions about the societies that tolerate these punitive spaces of confinement. Proceeds from the sale of each book go to the End Immigration Detention Network.
Muskoka Traditions
Author: Andrew Wagner-Chazalon
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN: 9781550464443
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A heavily illustrated guide to the lifestyle, houses and traditions of the affluent Muskoka area of Ontario, long a playground for affluent North Americans.
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN: 9781550464443
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A heavily illustrated guide to the lifestyle, houses and traditions of the affluent Muskoka area of Ontario, long a playground for affluent North Americans.
Crowded Out! and Other Sketches
Author: S. Frances Harrison
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
'Crowded Out! and Other Sketches' is a collection of short stories written by S. Frances Harrison. Close to ten titles are featured inside, all from various genres, including 'The Prisoner Dubois', 'The Idyl of the Island', 'The Gilded Hammock', and 'The Story of Delle Josephine Boulanger'.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
'Crowded Out! and Other Sketches' is a collection of short stories written by S. Frances Harrison. Close to ten titles are featured inside, all from various genres, including 'The Prisoner Dubois', 'The Idyl of the Island', 'The Gilded Hammock', and 'The Story of Delle Josephine Boulanger'.