Download or read book Ghost Towns of Muskoka written by Andrew Hind and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore the tragic history of communities whose stars have long since faded, and the people who once lived, loved, and laboured in them.
Download or read book Muskoka Ontario s Playground written by Ray Love and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreation and Sport are an integral part of Canadian culture. This is nowhere more evident than in the Muskoka District of Ontario. Beginning in the 1860s, people from more populated areas of Southern Ontario and the North Eastern United States flocked to Muskoka to enjoy nature's bounty. They came to fish, hunt, canoe, sail, swim, hike and explore. Many vacationed at one of the ever expanding selection of Muskoka resorts. Others built their own recreational retreats or cottages. Also beginning in the 1860s, Free Land Grant recipients ventured to the area to take land and attempt to farm it. They became the permanent population base and set about developing their own recreations and sporting organizations. This book surveys the attempts of all of Muskoka's residents and visitors to enjoy the recreational opportunities the region provided. The main focus of this local history is on how people in the past used recreation and sport to enhance their lives. In other words, what they did for exercise and fun.
Download or read book Pioneer Muskoka written by Ray Love and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Ontario's premier cottage destination, Muskoka, was not commonplace or uneventful. Beginning in the 1860's, emigrants from the British Isles and Europe were lured to this desolate region with the promise of free land grants for farming. What they found were mature forests, swamp, and never ending rock. Their heroic attempts to make a living farming on the Precambrian Shield did not come without considerable discomfort. Pioneer Muskoka documents the struggles faced by these early homesteaders and their response to hardship, isolation, disease and poverty. This is the tale of a community banding together to overcome fear with courage and determination. Readers will be astounded by the lengths these settlers went in their quest to make a home for themselves and future generations in Muskoka. The eventual shift from farming to more profitable industries such as lumber and tourism brought a shift in attitude towards this now highly sought after locale. The first families, through their enormous efforts, were able to create this positive and enduring change.
Download or read book Making Muskoka written by Andrew Watson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muskoka. Now a premier destination for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka uncovers the connections between lived experience and identity in rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield. This rocky section of Ontario was transformed from an Indigenous homeland to a settler community and a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers. But what were the consequences for those who lived there year-round?
Download or read book Muskoka Resorts written by Andrew Hind and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1880s, people have travelled to Muskoka in search of solace and relaxation, enjoying the comfort and warm hospitality of resorts while revelling in the tranquil wilderness and refreshing lakes. Here the stories of twenty classic resorts are explored, some of which are thriving today while others are long gone but fondly remembered.
Download or read book Muskoka Christmas written by Carolyn Miller and published by Carolyn Miller. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staci Everton is a multi-published author of historical romances, whose Christmas Eve deadline for a new book sees her leave her Chicago home to go write while staying with her grandmother in the beautiful small town of Muskoka Shores, Canada. Staci is determined to finish her manuscript, despite the small town's Christmas charm - and Muskoka Shores most eligible bachelor. Dr. James Wells is on enforced leave from working in Africa, after nearly burning out. He's here to spend time with family, not spend time with a workaholic whose focus on fiction is very different from the harsh realities he's faced. But Christmas is a time of second chances, family and faith. Maybe they'll find magic under the mistletoe, and a future after all.
Download or read book Muskoka Flavours written by Matthews, Brenda and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muskoka Flavours is a unique guide to the recipes, restaurants, inns and attractions of Ontario's cottage country.
Download or read book Muskoka Blue written by Carolyn Miller and published by Carolyn Miller. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ice princess with a broken heart. A pro hockey player with a secret. For Sarah Maguire, spending the summer at Lake Muskoka was supposed to be about finding the courage to put back the pieces of her shattered life—not falling in love with the charming yet unsophisticated hockey player from next door. Daniel Walton may have been praying for Miss Right to appear, but Sarah’s ice princess act just cries Miss Wrong. Dan’s summer plans hadn’t included befriending a redhead with a sassy tongue and cute accent, but as Muskoka works its magic he soon discovers that underneath the frost and prickles is the funny, feisty, loving woman he’s waited all his life to meet. As their friendship deepens, Sarah comes to appreciate Dan’s patience and kindness yet struggles to let go of the past and embrace the future, while Dan, only too conscious of the personal history he wants to forget, questions the wisdom of pursuing a girl whose heart may never be wholly his – who may soon return to live on the opposite side of the world. Will past regrets lead to further heartbreak? Or can Sarah and Dan learn to leave the past in the past and embrace God’s promises for the future? Muskoka Blue is the sixth book in the Original Six, a sweet and swoony, slightly sporty, Christian hockey romance series from bestselling author Carolyn Miller.
Download or read book Muskoka Terror G8 written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a page-turner with a mystery and a whodunnit wrapped in a thriller, with Nazis, Communists, Norman Bethune and Tom Thompson in the middle, and it becomes a psychological horror, that's funny, fun, and has a surprise ending that is oddly satisfying and will stay with you forever.
Download or read book Muskoka Miracles written by John F. Holliday and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating 80 years of Gods blessings. Muskoka Baptist Conference is Canadas largest year-round family and retreat Centre, nestled in Ontarios favourite region of lakes and forested hills. It offers the beauty and sandy beach of Mary Lake, at the mouth of the Muskoka River. It is a two hour drive north of Toronto, just south of Huntsville. Excellence in accommodations and delicious meal service is paralleled by a wonderful world of sports facilities indoors and outside. The spacious Chapel and various Bible study meeting rooms reflect the central purpose through 80 years. It is Muskokas Bible Centre with programming for all ages. MBC also operates a full summer camp for children and teensCamp Widjiitiwin. The word translates Fellowship. 2010 is the 80th anniversary for MBC. The first eight chapters of Muskoka Miracles were written in 1970 by one of the two founders, Rev. Dr. John F. Holliday. Rev. Dr. Richard D. Holliday authored this 80th year edition. It add more than 200 pictures from 1930 to 2010, and presents the exciting history and fascinating stories about Gods miracles along the way.
Download or read book Muskoka Wharf Murder Mystery written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murder mystery set in Muskoka, maybe the most beautiful part of Canada, and it's a murder most foul. An intuitive detective is called in on a strange case of a woman found in a like, scratched and tattooed, covered with mosquito and insect bites. Can he use his new-found intuition to figure it out?
Download or read book How to Make Love in A Muskoka Chair written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequence of poems about meditation, tai chi, yoga, and making love in a Muskoka chair
Download or read book Summer in Muskoka written by Maureen Potts and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memoir of the Potts Family Cottage 19611998 Summer in Muskoka describes the maturing of a familys response to the rugged wilderness of Muskoka, a summer vacationland just north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as they summer there over a period of thirty years. It also describes the evolution of Muskoka from a cottage semiwilderness to a high-class resort. Finally, the book explores this familys growing relationships with each other as they cope with the isolation of this most beautiful of Canadian summer vacationlands. John and Madeleine Potts married in 1939 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. John Michael
Download or read book Muskoka Dining Guide and Favourite Recipes written by Alice Pare and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1992-06-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only provides background and directions for selected restaurants and resorts but also features the chef's choice recipes for home cooking.
Download or read book A Trip Around Lake Muskoka With Norman Bethune And A Cure For Cancer written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical realist travel book about a trip around Lake Muskoka which brings Dr. Norman Bethune back to life and he discovers a local cure for cancer, amongst many other things
Download or read book Muskoka Memories written by Ann Hathaway and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Muskoka Novel Marathon Stories 2000 2010 written by Jenny Cressman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen fictions by writers from Muskoka, Montreal, Mexico, from the Muskoka Novel Marathon, celebrating the first decade of the annual special event fundraiser for literacy in Muskoka.
