Some five hundred books about Muskoka, Georgian Bay, Parry Sound, and Algonquin Park have been published over the years, most now out-of-print. Perhaps even the book being read by this Muskoka pioneer at Matthiasville Falls has been lost to history.

Muskoka Books and its sister publishing house, Blue Butterfly Books, are now creating new editions of a number of these out-of-print titles in order to preserve our heritage and make these titles more widely available to a larger audience. To upgrade these editions, we add introductions, period photographs, maps, indexes, footnotes for now-obscure references, and other features of contemporary high-quality books, including fine design and quality printing. 

Already published in new editions are:

• Huntsville: With Spirit and Resolve by Susan Pryke
• The March of Days by Patricia M. Boyer
• No Return by Gordon Aiken (originally published as “Returning Officer”), and
• Pegahmagabow: Life-Long Warrior by Adrian Hayes

Other out-of-print titles now in the works for re-publication include:

• Muskoka’s First Islanders by D.H.C. Mason
• True Tales of Early Muskoka by Redmond Thomas (originally entitled “Reminiscences”)
• Accidental Pioneer by Thomas Osborne (originally “The Night the Mice Danced the Quadrille”)
• Two Muskoka Surprises by Lenore Young
• A Steamboat Captain's History of Muskoka by Capt. Levi Fraser