White Mountain Publications: 15 books
by Deborah Ranchuk
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Now in its fourteenth year with White Mountain Publications, The Canadian Writers' Contest Calendar 2016 has taken the contest and award data from previous years, deleted, confirmed, added and updated the information to present in this new edition.
Each writing contest and award is listed...
Highway Book Shop
Northern Ontario's Unexpected Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Other writers have noted that from its small beginning in job printing, Highway Book Shop became one of the largest independent book stores in Canada, and a tourist attraction in its own right. It is also credited as a promoter and preserver of local history and culture, and for this and other reasons,...
Key Valley Railway
The Railway That Ran to a River …and Stopped.
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The Key Valley Railway was located in the Muskoka region, a major area for logging in the province of Ontario from about 1919 until 1935. Sixteen miles long, the railway connected to the CPR main line at Pakesley, ran on the north side of the Key River to Lost Channel on the Pickerel River, and stopped....
by William Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
William 'Bill' Sutton was born on a farm in Temiskaming in 1927. With the exception of three years spent in western Canada (1944-1947) he has lived in Temiskaming his whole life. He started working at the Harrison-Hibbert mine pictured on the front of this book in 1949, and continued working in the...
Mud, Muskeg & Mosquitoes
The Life and Legacy of a Northern Ontario Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
This historically factual creative non-fiction book concerns a remarkable woman who married and moved to ‘New Ontario’ in 1907 to become an outstanding community member, one of the first women elected to a School Board in Ontario, and mother to eight children.More than mere history, this story...
The Plaunt Family of Renfrew
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
A family history spanning twelve generations that reaches into the roots of Ontario, north and south. This is the story of the Plaunt (Plante) family from their original home in Larochelle France, to Quebec, and later to Ontario in a fascinating history that spans twelve generations in Canada, and...
Spiritual Survival
Selected Bahá'í Writings Concerning Tests and Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Compiled and indexed by Jonathan Dixon, this compilation was originally used as the basis for a course at Sylvan Lake Bahá'í School (Alberta, Canada). This compilation has been refined by time, exhaustive research and many years of practical application.
"This compilation...
by Walter P. Mittler
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Walter gives us a vivid account of the impact on his life and that of his family of Austria's overnight annexation by Germany in March 1938. As a 16 year old, he has retained clear memories of the unrest and uncertainty in the preceding weeks and the horrific events that followed. Walter and his parents...
Casablanca
In The Last Days of French Morocoo
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Casablanca ~In The Last Days of French Morocco is an autobiographical account with a unique perspective from a young and aspiring member of the Bahá'í Faith during his early years, reconciling his newly-found Faith and his job in the US Corps of Engineers.
This book...
Just Passing Through
The People and the Places North of Matachewan
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Frank Holley shares his memories of his time in the Matachewan area with the prospectors, trappers, and traders from late 1920s to the 1950s, when the area was scouted for mineral wealth, and people living in the bush lived off the land, a 'long' way from settled parts. With the re-opening of the...
by Bruce W. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This book explains the origin and a little of the history of most of the communities that have ever existed in the Temiskaming area, north-eastern Ontario. Contains maps.
by Leslie Belland
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Leslie Belland's notes include an eclectic collection of stories, poems and recipes. More commonly known around the world as "Davf" or "Daffy", Leslie Belland was born in Temiskaming Shores and raised in Muskoka. She joined the Royal Canadian Navy in Frontenac County, and...
Spiritual Intelligence
A Practical Guide for Personal Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
One of the original books with this title. Copied, but in my opinion, none as accessible and user-friendly as this one.
The key to life-long self-control: putting yourself in charge of how you think, how you feel and how you behave. Controlling how you think will determine your beliefs, your...
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