Since 1956 when Ontario’s historical plaquing program was begun, more than 1,000 markers have been erected throughout the province.The range of subjects commemorated is astonishing – from mining ru
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Author:Perkins, Mary Ellen
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Author:Das, Britta
Summary:Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers.
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Author:Innis, Harold A.
,Watson, Alexander John
Summary:It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan.
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Author:Campey, Lucille H.
Summary:The days when Aberdeen’s "fast sailing and copper-bottomed" ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada are brought to life in this fascinating account of the northern Scotland exodus during t
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Author:Monnon, Ernest F.
Summary:During World War II, thousands of Canadians left our country to fight for our Allies. Where they went and what they did has always been a question for some.
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Author:Magel, Ralph
Summary:The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation's Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto t
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Author:Quinn, Norm
,Ward, Cassandra
,Strickland, Dan
Summary:Algonquin Wildlife: Lessons in Survival is a celebration of the vast array of wildlife studies ongoing in Ontario’s very first provincial park.
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Author:Taim, Astrid
Summary:The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 km corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, riv
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Author:Lawrence, Louise de Kiriline
Summary:Set at the turn of the twentieth century and spread across the enormous canvas of Russia itself, Another Winter, Another Spring is a tale of love and loyalty tested against great hardship and suffe
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Author:Bradfield, Helen
,Pringle, Joan
,Ridout, Judy
Summary:Rich colours and arresting designs capture the mood of celebration and joy that characterizes this photographic record of contemporary religious works of art.
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Author:Wilson, Bruce
Summary:As She Began, an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario, provides a general guide to the most crucial period in Ontario’s history, 1775 to 1800, when thousands of refugees from the American R
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Author:Mason, Roger Burford
Summary:In 1842 at York Factory, the English-born missionary James Evans built a lightweight tin canoe that glittered and shone in the sunlight.
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Author:Speirs, J. Murray
,Bateman, Robert
Summary:This extensive and long overdue work of reference covers all of the bird species, more than 400 of which have been recorded in the province of Ontario.
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Author:Mansell, William C.
,Mansell, William Blair
,Smith, Sheila
Summary:Birds of the Cottage Country is a virtual storybook account of the author's personalized observations throughout Ontario's cottage playground.
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Author:Mika, Helma
,Mika, Nick
,Thompson, Gary
Summary:Black Creek Pioneer Village: Toronto’s Living History Village is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in Southern Ontario during the 1800s.
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