Download or read book The Summer Before the Storm written by Gabriele Wills and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the Age of Elegance in the summer playground of the affluent and powerful. Amid the pristine, island-dotted lakes and pine-scented forests of the Canadian wilderness, the young and carefree amuse themselves with glittering balls and friendly competitions. The summer of 1914 promises to be different when the ambitious and destitute son of a disowned heir joins his wealthy family at their cottage on Wyndwood Island. Through Jack's introduction into the privileged life of the aristocratic Wyndhams and their social circle, he seeks opportunities and alliances to better himself, including in his schemes, his beautiful and audacious cousin, Victoria. But their charmed lives begin to unravel with the onset of the Great War, in which many are destined to become part of the "lost generation." This richly textured tale takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from romantic moonlight cruises to the horrific sinking of the Lusitania, from regattas on the water to combat in the skies over France, from extravagant mansions to deadly trenches - from innocence to nationhood. The Summer Before The Storm, the first of the epic "Muskoka Novels," evokes a gracious, bygone era that still resonates in this legendary land of lakes.
Download or read book Muskoka Lakes this Summer written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summer in Muskoka written by Maureen Potts, Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memoir of the Potts Family Cottage 1961 1998 Summer in Muskoka describes the maturing of a family's 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 family's 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 Lighting the Stars written by Gabriele Wills and published by Mindshadows. This book was released on with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucked into the rugged Canadian wilderness of Muskoka's majestic lake country, Merilee Sutcliffe's peaceful town seems worlds away from the escalating conflict in Europe. But life is about to change dramatically in the Summer of 1940. As her patriotic friends and relatives leave for battle, her small town is thrust into the war machine. Merilee's formerly tranquil skies soon roar with aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force, stationed nearby to train young men determined to liberate their country from Nazi occupation. When German Prisoners of War march into her shocked community, they become Merilee's closest neighbours - and biggest threat. What unfolds in her remote town and on foreign shores sets Merilee and her growing circle on a collision course with an unimagined destiny. Caught up in the chaos is Luftwaffe pilot Erich Leitner. Shot down during the Battle of Britain and transplanted to a lakeside prison in Muskoka, he discovers he has more to fear from his comrades than his captors. While her cousin-in-spirit, Elyse Thornton, navigates the treacherous skies of Britain as a Spitfire Girl, audaciously ferrying warplanes from factories to airfields, Merilee becomes quietly entangled in her own dangerous liaisons on the home front. Caught between worlds, with conflicted loyalties and a sense of duty, she joins the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division, and soon finds herself in ground-zero London, focusing her photographer's lens on a city under bombardment. Far from carefree summers on the lake, struggling to survive the relentless demands and sacrifices of war, Merilee, Elyse, and their friends wonder if they dare to risk their hearts as well. As unlikely lives intersect, ideologies and social hierarchies are challenged, loves and friendships are forged or broken, and countless heroes are made and lost. But even those who return to the serenity of Muskoka are changed forever.
Download or read book MUSKOKA LAKES HIGHLANDS OF ONTARIO CANADA written by GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY OF. CANADA and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elgin House Lake Joseph written by Ray Love and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elgin House, Lake Joseph Past and Present is a history of an important and successful summer resort in the Muskoka Region of Ontario from 1885 to the present. It details the efforts of four generations of the Love family to create a world class summer resort from modest beginnings.The resort was unique in that it catered to the many well to do Canadians and Americans with strong religious beliefs including several of North America's founding families. The book revolves around a series of Love family stories and is set in the context of developments in Canadian history throughout the twentieth century. The book contains 58 images of the resort through it's history including a number by the Muskoka photography legend Frank Mickelthwaite. It concludes with a description of the present day use of this property in the form of the luxurious Lake Joseph Club, a Thomas McBroom designed championship golf course, villas and lake front dining facility.
Download or read book Elusive Dawn written by Gabriele Wills and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thread by thread, the fabric of privilege and complacency enveloping the Wyndham family began to unravel. Now, in the compelling sequel to the acclaimed epic, "The Summer Before The Storm, " Ria and her friends find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control in late summer, 1916.
Download or read book The Lake of Bays written by Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muskoka Lakes Highlands of Ontario Canada the Finest Summer Resort Region in America Easy of Access One Thousand Feet Above Sea Level Good Hotel Accomodation written by C.D and published by . This book was released on 1905* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muskoka written by Judy Ross and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontario's cottage country is famous for its blue lakes and rocky shores, and this wonderful coffee table book captures the spirit of cottage country like no other book before it. John de Visser's award-winning photographs combine with Judy Ross's homespun text to paint an unforgettable picture of contemporary Muskoka.
Download or read book Muskoka the Summer Playground of Canada written by E. Maurice Smith and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summertimes written by Muskoka Lakes Association and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic black-and-white photos, color plates, and new work from the region's best artists. A once-in-a-lifetime book.
Download or read book How and where to Spend the Summer Holiday written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summer s End written by Joel A. Sutherland and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2017 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One terrifying summer can stay with you forever. It's the summer before high school and Jacob and his friends are determined to make it a memorable one. This may be the last couple of months they have together; once school starts, they'll be going their separate ways. Ichiro's family is moving to Japan. And while Jacob and the twins, Hayden and Hannah, are staying behind in Valeton, they'll be going to different high schools. When they discover an old abandoned home on a remote island of their Muskoka community, things suddenly take an unexpected turn. The kids find themselves inexplicably drawn to the house that had once been a sanatorium for children with tuberculosis and learn that it has some haunting secrets to hide.
Download or read book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Library Global Passport written by J. Patrick Boyer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limited time offer. A local library, passport to a larger world for its individual patrons, is also a democratic institution whose contribution to the strength of a community is out of all proportion to its size or membership. Several thousand Carnegie libraries were built a century ago when Andrew Carnegie, who had risen from poverty to become "the richest man in the world" vowed to donate all his money before he died and set about giving millions of people around the world the same "gift of reading" he had with access to a library as a factory working boy. Across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other corners of the English-speaking world, he created "the free republic" of libraries. This is the story of one of them. By tracing evolution of library service in the Canadian town of Bracebridge from 1874 to the present day within the broad sweep of larger cultural and economic patterns, Boyer’s engaging book provides a specific example of the universal transformation of books and information technologies and the libraries that house them from the 19th to 21st centuries. Most readers will find endearing and tantalizing parallels with their own library experience, wherever they live. Written to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Andrew Carnegie Library in Bracebridge in 2008, Boyer’s book is an inspired and engaging effort to show patterns and perils that probably hold true for most local libraries although some of the dramatic and comedic episodes here are surely unique. This story is so rich it could be a feature movie.
