Muskoka's Main Street

150 Years of Courage and Adventure Along the Muskoka Colonization Road

Muskoka's Main Street
$24.95
by Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith

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.

Muskoka: A Photographic Portrait

Muskoka: A Photographic Portrait
$6.95
by John McQuarrie

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.

Muskokans Fight the Great War

Striking Back for the Empire, 1914-1918

Muskokans Fight the Great War
$24.95
by J. Patrick Boyer

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.

Nightswimming

A Novel

Nightswimming
$19.95
by Janet Turpin Myers

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.

No Return

A Novel of the Canadian Election that Vanished in Muskoka's Backwoods

No Return
$24.95
by Gordon Aiken

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.

Northern Steamboats

Timiskaming, Nipissing & Abitibi

Northern Steamboats
$49.95
by Richard S. Tatley

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.

Parry Sound

Gateway to Northern Ontario

Parry Sound
$26.99
by Adrian Hayes

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.

Pegahmagabow

Life-Long Warrior

Pegahmagabow
$19.95
by Adrian Hayes

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.

Raisin Wine

A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka

Raisin Wine
$20.95
by James Bartleman

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,

Raw Life

Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book

Raw Life
$39.99
by J. Patrick Boyer

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.

Reluctant Pioneer

How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

Reluctant Pioneer
$24.99
by Thomas Osborne

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.

Santa's Village, Muskoka

50 Years of Magic

Santa's Village, Muskoka
$24.95
by Diane Rimstead

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…

Seasons of Hope

Memoirs of Ontario’s First Aboriginal Lieutenant Governor

Seasons of Hope
$24.99
by James Bartleman

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.

Spirit of Place (hardcover)

Muskoka Then & Now

Spirit of Place (hardcover)
$44.95
by John McQuarrie

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.

Spirit of Place (softcover)

Muskoka Then & Now

Spirit of Place (softcover)
$34.95
by John McQuarrie

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. A perfect passport to one of Canada's most famous districts.