Don Hayward: 5 books

Don Hayard's memories of his early life in High Falls Ontario on the Spanish river framed as a fictional return to the disappeared town sometime in the early 2000s. The span of memory is from about 1948 to 1961. In the engaging stage play, Ipperwash, Falen Johnson and Jessica Carmichael lead us to...

A century and a half after the collapse of the global economy, the residents of the Great Lakes basin are suffering the aftermath of the industrial ‘Before Time’. Climatic extremes are a persistent reminder of the danger of straying from the loop of life. A young girl, Annie, is given the dangerous...

When global economic collapse hits a small town in Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada, many residents flee in search of relief while others choose more horrible solutions. The catastrophe overwhelms elected governments as the long distance supply of food collapses, and desperate populations fight for...

Steam dominated the railways of the world for a hundred years, but the powerful marriage of internal combustion and electricity gradually pushed steam aside. By the end of the 1950s, steam was fading fast and diesel locomotives were dominating. The old romance of living steel and tough men would not...

“We will destroy Toronto. We will destroy industrialism.” In a world where industrialism devastated the planetary ecosystem at a fast pace, the environmental movement split into two factions. The established environmentalists evolved into business operations where paid jobs, fundraising, government...