Whatever you call it, every Canadian summer home needs at least one copy of Charles Gordon's wry, affectionate, and very funny study of our national obsession with that special summer place.

Author Robert Boyer remembers Bracebridge at a time when he was a youth and Muskoka's capital town was in transition with automobiles replacing the horse-and-buggy and pioneer era industries fading or closing with the Depression.

A memoir of Muskoka summers (and the odd winter) in the early 1900s: "food chilled by blocks of ice cut from the lake, a wande ring cow munching oranges in the kitchen, excursions up the lake on elegantsteamboats, a floating store that called at dock ever

A story about the settlement of communities in the free grant lands and of pioneer life in Muskoka.

The authors explore the tragic history of communities whose stars have long since faded, and the people who once lived, loved, and laboured in them.

Huntsville never had an easy time during its formative decades. Founded in the 1860s amid the picturesque lakes and rolling wooded hills of northeastern Muskoka, the hamlet struggled in competition with nearby settlements. The arrival of the railway in 18

Handsomely illustrated, Muskoka Traditions captures the many ways of life that make Ontario's most famous lake district an extraordinary place for generation after generation of residents and cottagers.

The Historical Committee of the Peninsula Lake Association met every week for three years to put together this anecdotal history of their lake. Full of great family album photographs.

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.