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Muskokans Fight the Great War is historian J. Patrick Boyer’s lead-off book in a new series of modern histories about Muskoka. Launched last fall, this book includes previously undisclosed events and many never-before-published photos. Muskoka / Ontario’s Playground. Reluctant Pioneer.
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This deeply researched work by Muskoka historian Richard S....
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by Mark Neuzil, Norman Sims, John McPhee It’s risky to call...
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A memoir of Muskoka summers (and the odd winter) in the...
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Nov 7, 2021 · Told through the letters and memories of members of Grace Taylor’s family, Twice Told Tales is an intimate look at local history. Like many in early Muskoka, Taylor’s descendants felled trees for logging interests in the winter. Their memories and letters offer a window into life in logging camp. Twice Told Tales,
Oct 16, 2023 · Vintage Muskoka is a new book by local historian and documentarian Andrew Hind and it spans the breadth of the region and more than 100 years of local history. “The book covers…stories as far as Foots Bay and MacTier in the west to Huntsville and Lake of Bays in the east,” says Hind. “In terms of time frame, the two dozen stories cover ...
Muskoka Falls: The Village, 1859-2018. $25.00. by Patricia Stott-Prince. In earliest days of Muskoka colonization, the District’s most central place was also its most spectacularly beautiful. Two colonization roads intersected here, just where Muskoka’s most dramatic waterfall plunged a hundred feet down a rock faced chasm. Book Details.
This was the first book published in Muskoka. Printed in 1871 at the Northern Advocate offices in Bracebridge, where its author Thomas McMurray published his weekly newspaper, the book Free Grant Lands of Canada promoted settlement by offering “practical experience of bush farming in the free grant districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound.”
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Andrew Watson’s Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870 – 1920 carefully tells the story of the original inhabitants of Muskoka, both Indigenous and colonial settlers, from the early land rush to the influx of tourists in the early twentieth century. Watson digs beneath the history of tourism to examine the shifts in the rural economy, environment and identity of ...
