A Photographic Portrait
Photographer John McQuarrie delivers a vivid portrait of Muskoka's steamboat history and its present-day reality. This book can be gift, souvenir, or education through imagery.
150 Years of Courage and Adventure Along the Muskoka Colonization Road
Muskoka's Main Street describes the road's 150-year history through the eyes of people who designed, built, and travelled it, and who settled along its winding course to carve communities from raw bush.
A perfect gift, this small book of compelling Muskoka photographs by John McQuarrie highlight boats and beasts, people and places — from great angles and in stunning light.
Striking Back for the Empire, 1914-1918
In August 1914 Muskokans rushed to enlist in the British Empire’s war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. After four years, with millions of soldiers and millions more civilians killed, the euphoria had long since turned to grim despair.
A Novel
Nightswimming is a delicate and layered novel about what happens to us when our first exploration of love, like astronauts swimming through the dark unknowns of space, takes us somewhere we never intended to go.
A Novel of the Canadian Election that Vanished in Muskoka's Backwoods
A Novel of the Canadian Election that Vanished in Muskoka's Backwoods. Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken’s novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation’s capital shows why.
Timiskaming, Nipissing & Abitibi
Steamboats once travelled all of Ontario's navigable waterways - the Great Lakes, the Ottawa River, the Rideau, the Kawarthas, the Muskoka Lakes - but nowhere did they find a greater variety of employment than in the North.
Gateway to Northern Ontario
Parry Sound, at the mouth of the Seguin River on Georgian Bay, is the gateway to Parry Sound District. The town's economy and society have changed dramatically over the decades, as author Adrian Hayes shows with accurate research and colourful episodes.
Life-Long Warrior
Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peace—fighting all the way. In wartime he volunteered to be a warrior. In peacetime he had no option.
A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka
Jim Bartleman tells of the boy who started out in a dilapidated house with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting, forming a future ambassador for Canada, advisor to Prime Minister Chretien,
Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book
While dispensing speedy justice, Muskoka Magistrate James Boyer kept a written record of his cases in a "bench book." Recently discovered by his great-grandson, lawyer J. Patrick Boyer, that record now provides the raw material for Raw Life.
How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush
Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and unsentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony.
50 Years of Magic
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…
Memoirs of Ontario’s First Aboriginal Lieutenant Governor
James Bartleman, Ontario’s first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth. He describes how learning to read at an early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his country as an ambassador.
Muskoka Then & Now
Muskoka's past and present fuse in McQuarrie's stunning photography, the archival pictures he's unearthed, and the engaging texts by famous Muskokans he's compiled in this hardcover passport to one of Canada's most famous districts.