National Network for Equitable Library Service

This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 aboard the brig Hector.

The republication of the memoirs of Colonel John McDonell of Scottas (1728-1810) will be welcomed by Highlanders the world over.

Once home to over 60 flourishing villages, Middlesex County, in the heart of southwestern Ontario, has a rich history just waiting to be discovered.

When Ezra Chipman brought fellow Canadian George Sternaman to board at his Buffalo home, he set in motion a nightmarish chain of events. Within months, Ezra was dead of a mysterious ailment.

It is difficult for Todmorden Mills Museum visitors to imagine that this site so close to the busy Don Valley Parkway was once home to an important mill.

At the time of his death in 1907, John Waldie, founder of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, was identified as "the second largest lumber operator in Canada." A young Scottish immigrant

The working life of the distinguished surveyor Guy Blanchet reflects the story of northern Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Almaguin Highlands is a region that was once coveted for its game, silver birch and majestic white pine.

Carol and Bruce Hodgins began leading canoe trips in 1957 for Camp Wanapitei on Lake Temagami in Northern Ontario, initially to the great rivers of that region and on into Quebec.

This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America.

Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book.

Victorian Ontario included people from all walks of life from homeless beggars to wealthy gentry.

Short-listed for the 1978 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction The 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct.

Jean Morrison has written a fascinating and important book, full of drama and colourful historical figures.

This book provides the first exhaustive study of the great Scottish exodus to Canada written in modern times.