A Nineteenth-Century
ALGONQUIN ADVENTURE
James Dickson
Paddle across the Algonquin highlands in the 1880s, exploring the last island of virgin wilderness with the man who helped create Algonquin Park.
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$19.95
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PEGAHMAGABOW
Legendary Warrior,
Forgotten Hero
Adrian Hayes
Decorated three times for bravery in World War 1, Francis Pegahmagabow fought just as hard for aboriginal rights in Canada.
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$19.95
out of print
BROWNING ISLAND,
Lake Muskoka: Cottagers Remember the Good Old Days
edited by Robert Attfield
You don’t have to be a Browning Islander to enjoy these stories of early cottaging in Muskoka.
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$19.95
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WHEN GIANTS FALL
The Gilmour Quest for Algonquin Pine
Gary Long/Randy Whiteman
Journey back to the 19th century when powerful lumber barons were chopping through the pine forests of eastern Canada.
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$19.95
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GILMOUR TRAMWAY
A Lumber Baron’s Desperate Scheme
Gary Long
An ingenious but ill-fated mechanism built in the 1890s to lift millions of logs over a range of hills in Ontario’s Lake of Bays district.
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$19.95
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TIMBER EMPIRE
The Exploits of the Entrepreneurial Boyds
Grace Barker
Here’s the action-packed story of Mossom Boyd, another 19th-century Ontario lumber baron intent on turning pine into profits.
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$19.95
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