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UNFORGETTABLE CANADA
Explore your country, if only in print with
this beautifully illustrated tour to 100
destinations across the country from Signal
Hill, Newfoundland to the killer whales off
the west coast to the Yukon’s Top of the
World highway. $29.95
WELLINGTON COUNTY
Fred Dahms has produced a beautiful salute
to Wellington County, from its limestone
architecture to its lakes and rivers, from the
role of agriculture to its artists and artisans,
and from the humblest cross-road hamlet to
the Royal City of Guelph. $39.95
MAGICAL, MYSTERIOUS LAKE OF
THE WOODS
Heather Robertson and Melinda
McCracken explore the past of this jewel
of Northwestern Ontario with historic
photos, maps, drawings and colour
photos. $24.95
ONTARIO’S SECRET LANDSCAPES:
Ron Brown highlights 50 unusual places
to visit around Ontario from Thornbury’s
Mystery Mound to Kitchener’s Pioneer
Tower and Castle Kilbride at Baden. 166
pages of stories and photos. $19.95
OWEN SOUND:
The Port City
The story of Owen
Sound from 1840 to
today. $21.95
A PADDLER’S GUIDE TO ONTARIO’S LOST
CANOE ROUTES
For canoe adventurers who want to to explore less-
known routes, this book offers 15 trips in northern
and eastern Ontario. Lots of colour photos let you
preview the trip. Includes 21 maps. $19.95
THE SNOWSHOE
EXPERIENCE
Snowshoeing can be your
passport to winter
enjoyment. With this nuts-
and-bolts guide you have
everything you need to know
to get started and enjoy this
low-cost, hassle-free winter
sport. $13.50
VANISHED VILLAGES OF
MIDDLESEX
Twelve villages were swallowed
up by what is now the city of
London. Many more rural villages
have disappeared over the years.
Jennifer Grainger digs up the
history of these vanished
communities. $26.95
BACKROADS OF
ONTARIO
Ron Brown gives
information and directions
to discover delightful
backroads and small towns
and villages across Ontario
including some in
midwestern Ontario. $19.95
BIRDING THE BRUCE
PENINSULA
For years Mike Pickup shared his
knowledge of spring, summer,
fall and winter birding on the
Bruce Peninsula leading hikes of
the Bruce Birding Club. In this
book he provides a written guide
to birds and locations. $13.00
THE DUST AND THE
DEW
Shakespeare writer
Robert G. Irvine writes
poems about everything
from cattle shows to one-
room schoolhouses to
ancestors and small
towns. 56 pages in all.
$14.15
FEEDING THE FUTURE:
From Fat to Famine
Thought-provoking essays
on food and agriculture from
experts around the world,
edited by Andrew
Heintzman and Evan
Solomon who also
produced Fueling the
Future. $37.95
FIDDLE AND FLY
Young readers can learn about what life
was like for pioneer young people
through this book. Based on his own
family’s history as first-generation white
settlers in Grey County, Neil Aitken
creates a story of two fictional boys and
their experiences. $18.00
THE FIREFLY DICTIONARY OF
PLANT NAMES: Common &
Botanical
Confused about common and
botanical plant names? This
dictionary translates from common
to botanical and vice versa. 440
pages. $24.95
GENERAL STORES OF CANADA
R.B. Fleming, who grew up in a general
store north of Toronto tells the story of
general stores and their owners from
coast to coast. Hundreds of photos tell
their history. $24.95
THE GIFT OF COUNTRY LIFE
Saskatchewan writer Victor Carl Friesen turns
his memories of growing up on a small farm in
the 1940s into poems. Illustrated by his own
photos, he tells of a simpler time when less
was more. $18.95
THE GREAT OUTDOORS GAMES &
PUZZLES
Kids who love the outdoors can learn even
while indoors with 100 mazes, word games,
picture puzzles, jokes, riddles, brain-teasers
and fun-packed games. Designed for children
aged 8-12. $13.50
A GUIDE TO
PROVINCIAL PLAQUES
IN ONTARIO
A well-kept secret is in
plain view around Ontario,
telling the stories of
communities across the
province. This guide
describes the inscriptions
on historical plaques
across Ontario. $9.95GROWING TREES FROM SEED
The late Henry Kock of the
University of Guelph Arboretum
shows how to collect and plant the
seeds of dozens of varieties of
native trees. Comprehensive
instructions, beautiful illustrations,
30 pages of colour photos. $45.00
BUILDING WITH LOGS
Log homes were among the earliest
structures erected by settlers but they are
still popular and oh so beautiful. This
comprehensive book shows you how to
build your own log structure with the latest
advances in comfort and utility. $24.95
THE BLACKSMITH’S
CRAFT
Blacksmithing is a romantic
and practical skill and it still
has many applications today.
This comprehensive book is a
primer of the tools and
methods of the blacksmith and
provides tips on how to make
this skill pay. $26.95
BEHIND BARS — Inside
Ontario’s Heritage Gaols:
Popular Ontario historian
Ron Brown tells short,
colourful stories of more
than 50 Ontario jails,
including Goderich, Owen
Sound, Stratford and
Walkerton and those
people who have been
imprisoned in them. $22.95
ATTICS, DORMERS AND
SKYLIGHTS
From the editors of Fine
Homebuilding comes this book
on how to expand your attic to
make it usable space.
Information on everything from
adding a second story to
adding a skylight to creating a
bathroom in the attic. $25.95
ALFALFABET A TO Z
Help a youngster learn the alphabet and
learn about food and agriculture at the
same time with this colourfully illustrated
picture book. As well as learning the ABCs
youngsters will learn of everything from
farm animals to fruits and the bees that
pollinate them. $19.95
HIKING ONTARIO’S HEARTLAND
Get to know Ontario intimately by
hiking some of the 40 trails outlined
in this book. Try local southwestern
Ontario trails as well as trails in
eastern, central , near north and
Lake Superior regions. $18.95
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