Tobin, Jacqueline

Summary: The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers. While there were dedicated conductors and safe houses, there were also arduous nights in the mountains and days in threatening towns. For those who made it to Midnight, the code name given to Detroit, the Detroit River became their Jordan. And Canada became the Promised Land where they could live...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 TOB

Reaman, George Elmore

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1993

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 971.3 REA

Bond, Rebecca

Summary: "Inspired by the author's grandfather's experiences living in a lodge in the woods, a story of how people and animals survive a forest fire in a small Canadian town"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971 BON

Keffer, Marion C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1976

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3713 KEF

Aitken, Barbara B.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1984

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3713 AI

Lennox and Addington Historical Society

Summary: Historical essays about Lennox and Addington county (eastern Ontario), organized by theme. There are chapters about the history of each of the old, lower-tier municipalities (the townships and villages and the Town of Napanee) and by specific subjects such as the rebellions, sports and industry. Many members of the Society contributed to Glimpses. However, the Lennox and Addington Historical...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lennox and Addington County Council 1964

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 971.359 HIS

H. Belden & Co

Format: cartographic

Publisher / Publication Date: Mika Silk Screening 1972

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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 712.913 ILL

Gray, W. M. (William Melville)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boston Mills Press 1997

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.8 GRA

Taylor, Alan

Summary: The changing relationship of Joseph Brant, a young Mohawk, and Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman is set against the role of the Native American peoples in North America during the American Revolution.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006

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Little, Jean

Summary: In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Canada 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIT

Ghent, Natale

Summary: In Ontario, Canada, in 1977, twelve-year-old Nat and his sisters find that owning, training, and caring for a pony they acquired for free makes it easier to cope with the poverty they have faced since their father abandoned them.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2005

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Milord, Susan.

Summary: In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vermont Folklife Center 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MIL

Archives of Ontario

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture 1994

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1

Lee-Whiting, Brenda

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Juniper Books 1986

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 971.381 Lee

Brown, Ron

Contents: v. 1. Southern Ontario.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stagecoach 1978

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.371 Brown

Mika, Nick

Contents: pt. 1. A-E.--pt. 2. F-M.--pt. 3. N-Z.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mika Publishing Co 1977

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Bennet, Doug.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reed Books Canada 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7131 BEN

McClelland, Ted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 MCC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Trav USA McClelland

Taylor, Alan

Contents: Loyalists -- Simcoe -- United Irishmen -- Deserters -- Blood -- Invasions -- Crossings -- Scalps -- Flames -- Northern lights -- Traitors -- Soldiers -- Prisoners -- Honor -- Peace -- Aliens.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

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United Empire Loyalists Centennial Committee (Toronto, Ont.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gregg Press 1972

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 CEN
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Nute, Grace Lee

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Minnesota Historical Society 1976

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Scott, James

Contents: I. John Galt and the formation of the Canada Company -- II. The opening of the tract-Galt, Dunlop and Van Egmond -- III. Galt's departure -- IV. The beginning of settlement -- V. Land lease and the Thomas Mercer Jones Regime -- VI. Rebellion: and later military history -- VII. Development of Agriculture -- VIII. The struggle for schools -- IX. A country emerges -- X. The development of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ryerson Press 1019

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 971.3 SCO

Thomas, Kai

Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

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Summary: Since its inception in 1893, Algonquin Park has meant many things to many people: to hundreds of thousands of people, in fact. But it is not easy for one writer either to explain the almost magical attraction that Algonquin has exerted on so many or to capture the spontaneous quality of this attraction. Instead, let us look at the personal impressions of thirty-two writers who, between 1824 and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Friends of Algonquin Park 1989

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