The Cabin
A Search for Personal Sanctuary
$26.99
Noted environmentalist Hap Wilson takes us along a wilderness trail replete with snags and pitfalls, through mishaps, tears, and laughter.
The Cottage Bible
2nd Edition
$29.95
The Cottage Bible is the most important reference for a cottage owner. The expert guidance is essential for any vacation home, especially one near water with unique challenges. There is year-round advice on maintenance, buying a cottage, repairing burst p
The Father Pat Stories
A Good Man's Adventures with God, Women, Politics, the World, the Flesh and Even the Devil
$17.99
Father Pat Cheyne, an unkempt, middle-aged priest on a lone canoe ride reflects on how these solitary meditations in his beloved canoe have marked his life.
The Free Grant Lands of Canada
Muskoka & Parry Sound
$19.95
This was the first book published in Muskoka. Printed in 1871 at the Northern Advocate offices in Bracebridge, where its author Thomas McMurray published his weekly newspaper, the book Free Grant Lands of Canada promoted settlement by offering “practical experience of bush farming in the free grant districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound.”
The Georgian Bay Ship Canal
Canada’s Abandoned National Dream
$28.50
It took challenging decades to build the St. Lawrence Seaway. It took even longer to not build the Georgian Bay Ship Canal – although it's promise was much greater. Muskoka author Ray Love documents this dramatic saga about “Canada’s Abandoned National Dream.”
The Hidden World of Huckleberry Rock
Our Muskoka Series
$19.99
For nearly half a century, one of the most scenic landmarks in Muskoka has been the half kilometre pink granite canyon known as the Huckleberry Rock cut. Blasted in the early 1960s as a way of rerouting the road, it introduced a generation of travellers t
The Inside-Out Prison
The Story of Beaver Creek Minimum Security Institution
$20.00
Author Charles Stickel’s memoir of a pioneering Canadian penal institution, the Beaver Creek Minimum Security facility in Muskoka, is aptly named “the inside-out” prison. The guards were unarmed, the fences kept people from straying in rather than inmates escaping – or almost!
The Land Between (DVD)
The Story of One of Canada's Most Iconic Landscapes
$19.95
This visually spectacular, three-part, high-definition documentary series explores the newly recognized area in Ontario, Canada, that many people are calling The Land Between.
The Many Stages of Our Lives
Gravenhurst Opera House & Arts Centre: A Muskoka Tradition for 100 Years
$39.95
The Many Stages of Our Lives impresses upon anyone the astonishing significance and widefelt impact of Gravenhurst's Opera House, a community centre where just about everything except opera took place. In time, even an opera was sung.
The March of Days
Optimistic Realism through the Seasons of Life
$22.95
This collection of writings displays a woman's "optimistic realism" with the grace, concern, intelligence and wit of a perceptive community leader who infused her articles with learning from literature and astute sensibility to human psychology.
The Prettiest Spot in Muskoka
$44.95
A history of Port Cockburn, a once-thriving port community - now just a few houses, on Muskoka's Lake Joseph. 183 pages with biliography and many B&W photos. Navy blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and front.
The Redemption of Oscar Wolf
$26.99
Starting in the 1930s, it traces the coming-of-age story of Oscar Wolf, an aboriginal boy from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve in Ontario who is abandoned by his mother but eventually finds his way to multiple successes in life, encouraging us to exa
The Scalpel, the Sword
The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune
$26.99
This book celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune (1890–1939), a brilliant surgeon, campaigner for socialized medicine, and communist. Bethune’s courageous opposition to fascism, as well as his introduction of innovative techniques...
The Summer Before The Storm
The first of "The Muskoka Novels"
$21.95
The Summer Before The Storm, the first of "The Muskoka Novels", evokes a gracious, bygone era that still resonates in this legendary land of lakes.
Tom Thomson's Last Bonfire
A Paddler’s Perspective of Algonquin Park’s Enduring Mystery
$25.00
Author Geoff Taylor’s remarkable story-telling skill is on full display as he dramatically unfolds the well-worn saga of Tom Thomson’s death from a totally different perspective. Two seasoned Algonquin Park guides are fishing on a summer morning when they pull Tom Thomson’s waterlogged corpse from Canoe Lake.