Burnstown Publishing House: 61 books

Inspector Jerry Strauss does not believe in ghosts. As commander of the Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry detachment for the Ontario Provincial Police, he deals with facts, not fancies.  But he and Sterling House, now a B&B in Ingleside, have a long history, going back to his childhood when the house...

Courage and the loss of innocence in the dawn of a new age For Wayne Campbell, growing up in the 1950s, Deep River is an earthly paradise. The Town Beside the Ottawa is an instant community, built in less than a year to house the scientists, engineers and others who work at Canada’s first...

It’s 1840, and Robert Terrill Rundle—sent from Cornwall, England, to Christianize the "wild" Indians of the Canadian plains—enters a harsh world. The whites cling to their isolated forts, while the Blackfoot Confederacy and the Plains Cree Alliance struggle for control of their hunting...

She was just a garden ornament, the little stone angel half-hidden at the bottom of the garden at Grace Hollow.  Who would have thought to look here for a secret that would change lives forever?   When Frank and Thea Nickles moved to Fenelon Falls from Toronto, they were looking for...

Agatha Haggarty is young, beautiful, and a hag—as healers were called in the old country. It is the 1850s, and Aggie is on her way to the Province of Canada by sailing ship guided by a tale handed down to her from her mum. It’s an arduous month at sea and her adventures begin when she befriends...

It was the locus of hip, the venue for cool, the scene of the scene. Through its doors passed the likes of Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison, Gordon Lightfoot, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Spann, Saul Rubinek, Rich Little, IrvingLayton, William Hawkins,...

By moving off-grid to a farm in the Wilno Hills of Eastern Ontario, Robbie Anderman left behind his former way of life, his allergy shots and pills, and the social supports that he was used to. He quickly discovered that he needed to learn how to live on the land that had become his home. Running...

He has done it again! Brent Connelly has put his two fingers to the keyboard to produce his fourth book to share more tales of some of the amazing folks he has known working as a forester in his beloved Algonquin Park and living in various Ottawa Valley communities.  You’ll meet Bruce Armitage,...

Off in a Cloud of Heifer Dust gets us up off our chairs for a tour up and down the Valley, from L’Orignal to Lachute, Pembroke to Perth, Almonte to Allumette Island, to meet friends old and new, and share a story or two. Brent Connelly spent nearly forty years as a forester in Ontario’s...

The plates are scraped and the smokes are lit, so it’s time to pull up a chair in the old bunkhouse and swap some tales. This time, in addition to his beloved Algonquin Park, the popular author of Holy Old Whistlin’—Yarns about Algonquin Park Loggers takes us north to Algoma and...

Peter Kunstadt took his chance in 1968 when Soviet Bloc forces occupied his homeland, Czechoslovakia ─ he and his fiancée Susan were on holiday in Romania, and made a dash for the West with little more than their beach clothes.  This is the story that led to that great escape ─ surviving the...

Tom Thomson, as the famous Canadian landscape artist, gave Canada its most enduring icons, The Jack Pine and The West Wind. But Tom Thomson, as a private man, remains an enigma. Little is known about the man and even less is known about his personal thoughts, feelings and struggles with his art and...

Born in Bristol, England, Anthony (Jo) Johansen grew up with the sea. His love of ships and sailing led him to a fascinating life in the British Merchant Navy. This book is filled with his adventures, as he lives through the Blitz, travels the world, encounters some unforgettable characters, and faces...

King of Algonquin Park is the true story of an exceptional and notorious wilderness man and his struggles to survive in the remote, rugged terrain of Algonquin Park in childhood, the Depression, and through the war years. The story will take you from the arrival of his family in Nouvelle France...