Burnstown Publishing House: 61 books

60 Years in East Africa:  Life of a Settler 1926 to 1986 describes sixty years of experiences of a settler, during which he built plantations for his German and other employers and finally acquired his own. He and his family experienced hardship, regards, jubilation and disappointments while living...

While others gave up on Tanzania in its toughest years, Geoff and Vicky Fox invested in it. Laced with humour, their unusual love story touches, in personal anecdotes, on international events: Tea Wars and Nazis, international Oil Shocks and ivory poaching. Flying Snakes and Green Turtles follows...

Mindfully crafted and insightful, this practical guide outlines spiritual exercises that are intended to help you realize a more peaceful and spacious mind as you experience a transformative connection with your spiritual self. Sadhana: 21 Days to Inner-Spaciousness is a must-read for anyone...

Inside the Wild offers us forty-three first-hand stories about hunting, wildlife, and wilderness that are written in the tradition of William Faulkner’s hunting stories like The Bear. Inside the Wild tells the truth about hunting in a hard-edged way. After people read this book, thirty million...

Judith Campbell has written this book to help caregivers like you find balance in your life and “stillness” in the centre of your being. It is from this place of inner stillness that you become a healing presence to those in your care and enter a new and gratifying dimension of caregiving....

Arch Haslett as a younger man was a marathon runner, swimmer, and snorkeller; he was a hiker and outdoorsman. Suddenly, struck down by a series of debilitating illnesses, Arch’s life changes dramatically and becomes focused on healing. He explores some unusual modalities over the years in...

The Geraldine Heaney Story, by Tom Bartsiokas, provides an in-depth portrait of the woman who was known as the Bobby Orr of women's hockey. The authorized biography recounts Geraldine's amazing quest for gold and retraces how a little girl with a dream and a stick followed her passion from the driveway...

In 2007, Diana Leeson married university professor Jim Fisher. As they did not live together before marriage, the fact that he was also a farmer seemed to have slipped her mind. She woke up on the farm after her wedding, to the sound of a donkey braying. Suddenly she realized she was a farmer’s...

I Brake for Butterflies ─ Finding Divinity in All That Is, by Judith M. Campbell, invites the reader to experience a new level of consciousness–the Divine. The author teaches us how to find meaning in life by acknowledging the divinity we all have within us and by understanding that it...

How do we turn around a life that is unsatisfactory at all levels, when we are out of balance in mind, body, and spirit? The answers to these questions, framed in an energy approach to wellness, are given in Energy Wellness. Judith Campbell coaches us in the process of choosing good foods and...

Following the death of her mother, university history professor Farran Mackenzie begins searching for her parents’ past in the Lost Villages of the St. Lawrence Seaway.  Her arrival surprises the old-timers, and stirs up memories amongst the former villagers, many of whom were already rattled by...

On March 7, 1800, Philemon Wright, a farmer from Woburn, Massachusetts, arrives on the north shore of the Ottawa River in Hull Township. On September 1, 1860, on the south side of the river, Queen Victoria’s son, Prince Albert Edward, lays the cornerstone for Canada’s Parliament Buildings on Barrack...

Farran Mackenzie couldn’t have been more surprised when Alison Perry walked into her University of Waterloo office. It had been thrity years since she had last seen her best friend in high school, and thirty years since her best friend’s father, a police officer, had been killed in the line of...

So much for a summer of light emotional entertainment. In the month marking fifty years since the inundation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the remains of a young man gone missing during the Project days surface near Old Iroquois and stir up a hornet’s nest on both sides of the river. While dodging...