The Oxen & the Axe $ 20.00 CAD

The Fifth Edition,the Oxen & the Axe is sa book of stories of the struggle to open up and colonize that part of the Canadian Shield known as northern Lennox & Addington and Frontenac Counties.

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2022 Historical Calendar - Theme - The Changing Landscape of Area Businesses $ 15.00 CAD

Each month has a photo image taken from our archives or Flickr site expressly for this calendar.

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This Was Yesterday $ 20.00 CAD

Christina Berndt Hermer’s history of the Village of Denbigh and the surrounding Townships now has a new printing. The book contains census reports from 1861 to 188, and many pictures of the past.

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Bon Echo : The Dension Years $ 20.00 CAD

Bon Echo: The Denison Years documents the era when famous artists, intellectuals and theatrical personalities visited the strikingly beautiful Lake Mazinaw area. From the construction of Bon Echo Inn by Dr. Weston Price to the creation of Bon Echo Provincial Park, the author Mary Savigny has been privy to the 'inside' story.

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The Skootamatta Ozone Ball $ 25.00 CAD

Published in 2017, this is a darkly comedic novel about a group of American teenagers who spent the Labour Day weekend of 1972 at Lake Skootamatta It contains many references to local geography and events.

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The Sunset of Bon Echo - Set of 6 $ 25.00 CAD

The Sunset of Bon Echo is a reprinting of 6 slim volumes of the magazines primarily written by and originally published by Flora MacDonald Denison, between 1916 and 1920. Her writings expressed her devotion to the philosophies and writing of the American poet, Walt Whitman, as well as being a medium for advertising Bon Echo Inn.

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The Good Echo by Shena McAuliffe $ 30.00 CAD

The Good Echo is a beautifully written piece of fiction. Set in the beauty of Bon Echo in the early 1900’s dentist Clifford Bell and his wife Frances journey into a new world where they seek to restore their painful lives.

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Away Back in Clarendon and Miller by Charles Armstrong $ 20.00 CAD

Charles A. Armstrong has given us a detailed well-researched and colourful record of the area comprising the townships of Clarendon and Miller and adjacent settlements which were dependent on township roads for access to the outside world of pre-Confederation Canada.

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The Rock - Bon Echo Provincial Park's Silent Sentinel $ 7.00 CAD

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Lennox & Addington County by Orland French $ 20.00 CAD

The many maps, charts and colourful photographs of Lennox & Addington take you on a visual tour of the county and provide an overview of the history of its people and its development.

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The Trail of Broken Hearts - The building and settling of the Hastings Road $ 20.00 CAD

Hastings County author Paul Kirby provides new insight into the surveying, building and settling of the Hastings Road from the Tudor/Madoc Townships boundary through the neighbouring settlements.

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The Best of Boyce $ 20.00 CAD

The Best of Boyce includes selected writings by Hastings County author Gerry Boyce.

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Joe Alcorn's Boy - Early life in North Hastings $ 18.00 CAD

In "Joe Alcorn's Boy" author Hanthorn continues the story of growing up in North Hastings in the early part of the 1900's and the family's new life in the southern part of Hastings County at Carrying Place.

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Mary Alward - The unfair trail and hanging of a Kaladar resident. $ 19.00 CAD

Mary Alward, a former Kaladar resident's hanging in Belleville in 1872 shocked the country. Was she a cold blooded murderer? Did her three children need to become orphans?

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Billa Flint - King of Hastings County $ 19.00 CAD

Historian Armand La Barge undertakes an in-depth and critical study of a complex, fiercely independent, self-made man who influenced life in the 19th century Hastings County like no other had done before, or will ever again.

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The Mazinaw Experience - Bon Echo and Beyond by John Campbell $ 25.00 CAD

The Mazinaw Experience traces the presence of human habitation on the shore of the Mazinaw from its earliest beginnings to the present.

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The Hard Road Ahead - The Addington Colonization Road of Early Ontario. Parts 1 and 2. $ 50.00 CAD

Papers, letters, documents, photographs and maps related to the survey, construction of the Addington Road 1851-1900.

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The Land Between - Our undiscovered ecotone from Algonquin Park to the outskirts of Kingston $ 30.00 CAD

The Land Between is a mosaic of unique spaces - interconnected lakes and rivers, rare alvars, rocky barrens, wetlands, woodlands and settlements. It's a place of natural splendour, rich cultural heritage and an outdoor enthusiast's paradise.

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Historic Tours of North Frontenac $ 20.00 CAD

This tour guide concentrates on the hamlets along Road 506, 509 and Ardoch Road. Many of the historical sites are related to logging, mining and fishing.

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Your Loving Anna - Letters from a Pioneer to her Mother $ 17.00 CAD

Anna Maria Leveridge, husband and children came from Hochering, England in 1883 seeking a new life in Canada. They settled on a homestead near Coe Hill. For as long as her mother lived, Anna sent regular letters home describing in detail their everyday pioneer life. Your Loving Anna is her story in her words.

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Massanoga DVD by Brooke Johnson $ 20.00 CAD

Award winning actress, Brooke Johnson, armed with photographs, recordings and the 16mm film footage shot by her grandfather, explores the history of his lumber operations at a place he named Massanoga in the eastern Ontario Shield.

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The Builder, The Whitmanite, The Conservationist $ 25.00 CAD

The personalities who shaped Bon Echo by Margaret Axford. DVD. 44 min. On invitation by the Friends of Bon Echo, Margaret gave this speech at the Bon Echo Amphitheatre July 12, 2014.

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Note Cards by Various Artists - Pack of 5 Cards. $ 5.00 CAD

Note cards by artist Carla Miedema. All cards depict some aspect of history in our area. Sold with envelopes.

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CD Audio Tour of Addington Highlands & North Frontenac Townships $ 10.00 CAD

Courtesy of the Land O' Lakes Tourist Association, discover in the comfort of your vehicle much of the history that shaped these two townships. 61. min.

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