Natural Heritage imprint: 143 books
by R.D. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
The celebrated nature writer R.D. Lawrence tells the story of animals who inhabit the lakeside near his home in the backwoods of Canada. From the smallest water creature to wolves, deer and many, many birds, all are known to him. His sensitivity, enthusiasm and empathy for wildlife, coupled with his...
Buckskin and Broadcloth
A Celebration of E. Pauline Johnson — Tekahionwake, 1861-1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1997
This is the first generously illustrated biography of the Mohawk poet-performer E. Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake. The author has created an exciting volume of anecdotes, letters and poetry, and illustrated it with period photographs and new illustrations by the Six Nations artist, Raymond R. Skye.
While...
Steeped In Tradition
A Celebration of Tea
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1997
From drawing rooms of Victorian Britain to Ontario kitchens, rituals of afternoon tea have always delighted. Devotees to this splendid ceremony attest to the fact that tasty treats and fresh brewed tea really do have a way of seducing and calming even the most frazzled of souls. And so, it is no accident...
by J. Murray Speirs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1985
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. Birds of Ontario contains an identification and description of all species, with 344 outstanding colour plates. Anyone with even a casual interest...
Broken Shackles
Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective...
by Gavin Hamilton Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1992
Gavin Hamilton Green was well-known to Goderich visitors as the "racy, entertaining and genial proprietor" of Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe. His writings describe the colourful, sometimes wily ways of pioneer history in Colborne Township and Huron County.
Green supplies a large repertoire...
Fifty-Two Sundays
From the Pulpit of The Padre
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Fifty-Two Sundays: From the Pulpit of the Padre is a response to the many requests for copies of David Rowland’s sermons and addresses. Selecting has not been an easy task. The intention is to highlight his philosophy, objectives and beliefs. His faith, conviction and commitment tie the component...
An Unstoppable Force
The Scottish Exodus to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
This book provides the first exhaustive study of the great Scottish exodus to Canada written in modern times. Using wide-ranging sources, some previously untapped, Lucille Campey examines the driving forces behind the Scottish exodus and traces the remarkable progress of Scottish colonizers across...
Canada's Constitutional Monarchy
An Introduction to Our Form of Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Canadian Crown is a unique institution that has been integral to our ideals of democracy from its beginning in 16th-century New France.
Canadians enjoy one of the most stable forms of government on the planet, but there is a crisis in our understanding of the role the Crown plays in that...
A Very Fine Class of Immigrants
Prince Edward Island's Scottish Pioneers, 1770-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the "northern" colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth century, P.E.I. acquired its Scots earliest, doing so even before the start of the American...
English Bloods
In the Backwoods of Muskoka, 1878
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2004
Farming in the Canadian backwoods in the late 1800s was a prospect that enticed many young Englishmen to cross the Atlantic. One such fellow was Frederick de la Fosse, whose well-meaning uncle paid £100 per annum for his young nephew to serve as a farm pupil in the northern reaches of Muskoka. Some...
Shooting Paddlers
Photographic Adventures with Canoeists, Kayakers and Rafters
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Shooting Paddlers: Photographic Adventures With Canoeists, Kayakers and Rafters is the first book published anywhere designed to help all paddlers strengthen their ability to see, recognize and record meaningful images. It presents an original approach to the study of photography, concentrating on...
Fergus
A Scottish Town By Birthright
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
Pat Mestern, author of several earlier books and an ardent booster of her hometown, has produced an entertaining personal account of Fergus, while maintaining the historical perspective and utilizing the rich oral history of the area. Her lighter look at some of the characters and the escapades that...
by Henry Shykoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
How did we get to be US? Who are WE? This story for the younger reader, set in the period some 50,000 years ago when an almost explosive change in people's behaviour occurred, addresses these questions. From this period on, people, the Cro-Magnon or Homo sapiens sapiens who are considered to be our...