Natural Heritage imprint: 143 books
Brockville
The River City
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1997
Brockville’s origins reach back to the resettlement of Loyalists following the American Revolution and the threat of American encroachment. Following the War of 1812, Brockville, along the St. Lawrence River, benefitted greatly from the rapidly expanding colonization. A centre for the political...
A Mill Should Be Build Thereon
An Early History of the Todmorden Mills
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1995
It is difficult for Todmorden Mills Museum visitors to imagine that this site so close to the busy Don Valley Parkway was once home to an important mill. As early as 1793 Governor Simcoe recognized the industrial potential of this portion of the Don River. By 1795 Skinner’s sawmill was under construction,...
In Search of My Father
One Woman's Search for the Father She Never Knew
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
How did Florence Nightingale and Sir Alexander Mackenzie become part of the same family history? And how does Captain Booty Graves fit into the picture? Who was the well-respected doctor in London, Ontario, son of a Northwest partner and Metis mother, who married a grandniece of a British aristocrat?...
Redpath
The History of a Sugar House
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1991
Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the boom days of Montreal's growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city. In 1854, the ever-energetic...
A Stolen Life
Searching for Richard Pierpoint
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. An African warrior who was captured at about age 16, Pierpoint lived his remaining years in exile. From his birth in Bundu (now part of Senegal) around...
Grassroots Artisans
Walter Stansell, Dan Sarazin, Henry Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1982
Walter Stansell of Straffordville, Dan Sarazin of Golden Lake, and Henry Taylor of Bancroft did what they had to do to preserve some of Canada’s rural history. Stansell preserved the age of steam by building working models of machines used during the past century. Master canoe make Dan Sarazin (Chief...
by Donald MacKay
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Short-listed for the 1978 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction
The 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct. They called themselves lumberers, shantymen, timber beasts, les bucherons – and, more recently, lumberjacks,...
Algonquin Wildlife
Lessons in Survival
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
Algonquin Wildlife: Lessons in Survival is a celebration of the vast array of wildlife studies ongoing in Ontario’s very first provincial park. Probably more research has been done in Algonquin than in any other protected landscape in the world.
Norm Quinn, long-time Park Management Biologist...
Paddling Partners
Fifty Years of Northern Canoe Travel
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Carol and Bruce Hodgins began leading canoe trips in 1957 for Camp Wanapitei on Lake Temagami in Northern Ontario, initially to the great rivers of that region and on into Quebec. Their first venture north of 60 found them on the South Nahanni, soon to be followed by the Coppermine River, and by the...
by Fred Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1996
Fred Dickinson's diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century.
"The stories we hand down, the diaries we preserve become the fabric of our social history. Young Fred Dickinson's 1904 account of tenting and cottaging is a...
by Charles Sauriol
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1984
"I remember them as though they had happened yesterday."
So writes author-naturalist Charles Sauriol in reference to his many memorable experiences within Toronto’s Don River Valley. From Scout outings in 1920 to pioneer cottaging, train excursions, maple syrup making, beekeeping...
The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855
Glengarry and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
Glengarry, Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canada’s opportunities, led to a growing tide of emigration that eventually engulfed all of...
Caledonia
Along the Grand River
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1995
Caledonia, just south of Hamilton, has a history closely tied to the heritage of the Grand River. From the Grand River Navigation Company of the 1830s to the current nine-span bridge in the centre of town, the river and the community have shared a special relationship. Intriguing entrepreneurs, town...
The Consummate Canadian
A Biography of Samuel Weir Q.C.
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1990
Samuel Edward Weir Q.C. (1898-1981), a man both loved and reviled with scorn, was born in London, Ontario. Descended from pioneer stock, with roots in both Ireland and Germany, Samuel Weir possessed incisive wit, exceptional intelligence and a passionate zest for any subject that caught his eye. Over...