Front Page

Interesting stories selected from 100 years of the Port Dover News (175 pages - 23 x 15 cm)

Condition: Very Good

Frontenac at Cataraqui 1673-1973

To celebrate the three hundred year anniversary of Kingston, a re-enactment of Comte de Frontenac landing at Cataraqui was performed. This book includes pictures and dialogue of this memorable day. (84 pages - 23 x 16 cm)

Author: R.A.O'Brien

Publisher: Mika Publishing Company (Out of Print)

Genealogical Research in England and Wales - Vol 1

Volume I Behind this book is the accumulaton of over thirty years experience, most of them spent in actually handling the records in England and Wales. The observation of others who have had experience in the same field have also been drawn upon. ( 296 pages - 23 cm x 16 cm )

Condition is good

Author: David Gardner and Frank Smith

Genealogical Research in England and Wales - Vol 2

Volume II - Volume I dealt with a number of the record sources of genealogical value, and Volume II continues in that chosen direction. ( 432 pages - 23 cm x 16 cm )

Condition is good

Authors: David Gardner and Frank Smith

Glengarry - Stormont Pioneers

Traces the roots of certain Kennedys - MacDiarmids, McDermids - Munros and other early Scottish families who settled in the counties of Glengarry and Stormont in the easternmost part of the province of Ontario. (616 pages - 24 x 16 cm)

Publisher: Mika Publishing (rare - out of print)

Grand Conspiracy

A crime mystery story in which Rudyard Mack, a library detective, investigates a killing, leading to the murky world of New York.

(172 pages - 21.5 x 14 cm)

Author: David Beasley (Fiction)

Haldimand County Marriages 1803-1856

Marriage reisters with index and notices from various local churches. (48 pages - 28 x 21.5 cm)

Haldimand Norfolk Study 1972

Ministry of Treasury, Economics and Intergovernmental Affairs study of Haldimand/Norfolk on local government reform in 1972. ( 67 pages - 28 x 21.5 cm)

Hamilton Romance

It is V.E. Day in Hamilton, Ontario. Tom Davis, 20 year-old law student at Osgoode Hall, runs into Ship Burke, his ice-hockey hero before the War, invites him to dinner, and introduces him to Hamilton society with romanic consequences- complicated by perceptions of class.

(220 pages - 21.5 x 14 cm)

Author: David Beasley (Fiction)

Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology

Revised edition. This work is a listing of all legislative councillors, and assemblymen, all officials, dates of all parliaments,and judges and court officials plus lots more up to 1840. (278 pages - 23.5 x 16 cm)

Author: Frederick H. Armstrong

Head of the Lake

A history of Wentworth County commissioned to celebrate their 100th anniversary, from the French Regime to the present (1957). Condition is good (345 pages- 23.5 x 16 cm )

Author: C.M. Johnston

Help! I've Inherited An Attic Full of History

This book conducts the reader through the steps to gain physical control over the varity of materials, advising how to evaluate it and whether to keep or dispose of it. (178 pages - 23 x 15 cm)

Author: Althea Douglas

Heritage Fights Back

Legal, financial and promotional aspects of Canada's efforts to save architecture and historic sites. Introduction by Pierre Berton. (286 pages - 21.5 x 14 cm)

Author: Marc Denhez

Hessians of Upper Canada

The history of King George III's loyal German auxiliary soldiers, who fought for the British cause during the American Revolution,and after the war in 1783 decided to settle and raise their children in the new Province of Upper Canada. ( 234 pages - 28 x 23 cm )

Author: Johannes Helmut Merz

Historic Sites and Monuments of Kingston and District

A catalogue of plaques, tablets, markers, memorials and museums in Historic Kingston and in the circulation area of the Kingston Whig-Standard January 11,2023 (55 pages- 23 x 15 cm )

Published by the Kingston Whig-Standard Co. LTD in association with the Kingston Historical Society

Historical Highlights of Norfolk County

New expanded edition. A series of sketches, some biographical and some otherwise, depicting some of the hightlights of Norfolk's early history. (160 pages - 27.5 x 19.5 cm)

Author: Bruce M. Pearce

Historical Highlights of Norfolk County (Soft Cover)

A series of sketches, some biographical and some otherwise, depicting some of the highlights of Norfolk's early history. Softcover. ( 160 pages - 27 x 19 cm)

Author: Bruce M. Pearce

History of Simcoe 1829-1929

A complete and authentic record of a century of municipal life presented to the public on the 100th anniversary of Simcoe's birthday as a postal village. Softcover. (108 pages - 27.5 x 20.5 cm)

Author: Lewis Brown

Condition: Good - a few stains apparent

History of Simcoe 1829-1929 (CD)

This book was originally launched in July of 1929 for the Centennial of the Town of Simcoe, with the introduction:

"A complete and authentic record of a century of municipal life presented to the public on the 100th anniversary of Simcoe's birthday as a postal village to mark the occasion."

The author, Lewis Stanford Brown, was born August 26, 2023 and lived most of his life in Simcoe. He talked to many of the early settlers there, and compiled history on the people, businesses, fire departments and anything else to do with the Town of Simcoe.

The original book has been transferred to pdf format and loaded onto a CD. A special thanks to Jay McKiee for having Brown's book digitized by Bob Whitehead.

History of St James United Church

St. James United Church celebrated 150 years as a congregation in Simcoe, a history covering the years since 1836. ( 112 pages - 22 x 14 cm)

Author: Henry Smith Johnson