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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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#2 Port Carling's 1872 locks made it Muskoka L's hub....
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Muskoka BooksTORE at Veranda RETAIL. 24 Manitoba Street....
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Between Samuel Champlain’s first map in 1615 and today’s...
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It’s risky to call any book about canoes “definitive.” But...
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A memoir of Muskoka summers (and the odd winter) in the...
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Known as “The Gateway to Muskoka,” the town of Gravenhurst’s...
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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 ...
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,
Frank Garfield "Gary" Denniss is a Canadian historian, newspaper columnist, retired public school teacher, speaker and ordained minister born in 1944 in Bracebridge, Ontario Denniss is the author of 43 books on the history of the District Municipality of Muskoka, (Muskoka District, at the southern edge of the Canadian Shield, stretches north from the Severn River through rocky and forested ...
Muskoka and Haliburton documents, how surveyors laying out Muskoka’s townships “frequently saw signs of Indian occupation.” In 1862 for instance, George Rykert, working in the Lake of Bays area’s Ridout Township, “noted that it was the favourite hunting ground of the Lake Simcoe Indians who also made large quantities of maple sugar.”
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.
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