Burnstown Publishing House imprint: 61 books

Reserve time in your busy schedule to take care of YOU!  Turn your reading corner into a soothing retreat!  Perhaps light a candle, infuse a favourite essential oil, turn off your communication devices, play some quiet meditation music, have something warm to drink, wrap yourself in a comfy shawl...

For four hundred years, the journals of all the great explorers of Canada have mentioned the Deux Joachims portage and the wild Rivière du Moine as they made their way west to discover riches, routes, or souls to save. The Du Moine is the last of the ten major Quebec tributaries of the Ottawa River...

The wild is a heartbeat away inside each of us. That’s as true for a commuter who sees a coyote on the way to work as it is for the hunter who sees one from a tree stand in the woods. L.W. Oakley knows the wild in both places, and he has taken readers there in his successful first book, Inside...

This is a fascinating collection of short pieces about Canadian firsts, ranging from Canada's first Potter's Field through technical developments and inventions like Sonar and the variable pitch aircraft propeller, to Canada's first female winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection is presented...

In 1816, the British government founded the Perth Military Settlement, to help address a number of issues it faced following the War of 1812. How to protect Upper Canada against future attack from the United States. How to demobilize vast numbers of soldiers. How to relieve conditions at home as industrialization...

Captain William Byers, Master Mariner, dreamed of regaining Fenham, his grand ancestral home along the river Tyne, but time was marching on. Disheartened with the seafaring life, he decided to bring his family to Canada to engage in the lucrative timber trade. There he and his dear Mary would build...

Boy meets girl.  It's a story that never grows old.  Yet, occasionally, it gets a new twist, as in Canada's War Grooms and the Girls Who Stole Their Hearts. During World War II, thousands of servicemen came to Canada to train and, naturally, there were just as many local girls eager to meet...

This book was written for anyone who wants a better future. You were born knowing how to accomplish with ease, but with the influence of others you have formed mindsets that limit what you allow yourself to have, do, and be. Willing Change provides a simple and easy to use five- step model that helps...

The Seaway Valley’s Queen of Crime Maggie Wheeler returns with a sweeping tale of generational secrets and murder. When Farran Mackenzie begins a genealogical search into her grandmother Evian’s past, she finds more questions than answers buried in a murky chapter of Canadian history: the...

It’s the 1930s. In Montreal, tensions are running high. French vs. English. Jew vs. Christian. Have vs. have-not. The city is swirling with unrest. From Outremont to St. Urbain Street, people are struggling to lift off the yoke of strife and despair caused by the most devastating economic depression...

Almost half the population of Toronto-immigrants and newcomers from elsewhere in Canada-has no cultural memory of our city's beginnings. In a bid to fill this gap, Earliest Toronto tells the city's story up to the War of 1812 and its aftermath. Beginning with the dramatic conflicts in the aboriginal...

Sister Maggie, an army nurse, encounters John Hardie, a Canadian soldier, after the second battle of Ypres in 1915.  They gradually fall in love, and as the war deepens, Maggie unexpectedly discovers a clandestine operation that pits John against both German and Allied revolutionaries.  This struggle...

An anecdotal journey of self-discovery, William’s Gift tells the story of one woman’s life as a country veterinarian with honesty and humility.  Through the trials and tribulations of learning on the job, this committed caregiver learns the ropes of caring for animals both great and small. ...

She was a beautiful German girl in her late teens; he was a handsome German in his late twenties who had settled in East Africa. They were pen pals. The year was 1934, and Hitler was in power. By Hitler’s standards Helga did not qualify as “Aryan,” because her Lutheran mother was born...