This story of one Canadian town’s library reveals universal patterns in love for reading and battles for books as librarians, politicians, architects, educators, philanthropists and avid book readers mix it up for more than a century.

This story of one Canadian town’s library reveals universal patterns in love for reading and battles for books as librarians, politicians, architects, educators, philanthropists and avid book readers mix it up for more than a century.

Ontario's cottage country is famous for its blue lakes and rocky shores, and this wonderful coffee table book captures the spirit of cottage country like no other book before it. John de Visser's award-winning photographs combine with Judy Ross's homespun

In 1955, Santa moved into Santa's Village, his new summer home at Bracebridge, Muskoka—halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. Since then, millions of children and former children have enjoyed the magic of this special place nestled in the pine…

Was it incarceration or vacation? The residents of Gravenhurst in the heart of Ontario cottage country must have wondered, when the Canadian government chose a picturesque site overlooking nearby Lake Muskoka to imprison captured German officers.

Written by Robert James Boyer for the Bracebridge Historical Society.