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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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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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Informed writing about Muskoka by authors with different perspectives is, however, only half of Summertimes. This book also tells Muskoka's story through a superb array of images. Many black-and-white and sepia toned photographs from early years of logging, farming, boating, and community life manage to simultaneously convey realism and nostalgia.
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.
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 ...
Aug 3, 2023 · A stunning new three-part exhibit at the Muskoka Discovery Centre (MDC) in Gravenhurst, Ontario, provides an intimate look at the area’s fascinating history. It’s anticipated that the recently-opened “Muskoka Story: A Microcosm of Canada” exhibit, located in a breathtaking, eco-friendly 12,000 square-foot hall on the shores of Lake Muskoka, will attract thousands of visitors from all ...
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,
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Jul 28, 1993 · John Denison. 4.00. 1 rating0 reviews. In the late 1880s, Toronto photographer Frank Micklethwaite set up shop in Port Stanfield each summertime and took hundreds of photographs on glass negatives -- crystal clear -- of resorts, cottages, steamers, regattas and families. This book contains over 200 of his finest images.
