This unparalleled collection of photographs and text celebrates the beauty, history, and the enduring importance of Ontario's Algonquin Park. Naturalist-historian Roderick MacKay weaves the fascinating story of the park's origin and evolution with many rare, archival photographs and much previously unpublished material. In his stunning color images, award-winning photographer Williams Reynolds captures the natural splendor of Algonquin's breathtaking landscapes and wide range of flora and fauna.
John Rudolphus Booth (1827-1925) had a significant influence on Algonquin Provincial Park, the Ottawa Valley, and the City of Ottawa. He was a businessman of note, who built an empire based on timber, lumber, grain, pulp and paper, and much more. At one time, he owned the largest lumber mills in the world, and he employed thousands of men in his bush camps. Booth was behind the construction of a railway from Georgian Bay to Ottawa, with parts of the roadbed now converted to Algonquin Park's Old Railway Bike Trail. Continued interest in knowing more about this great Canadian has prompted this book on his life and accomplishments. Roderick (Rory) MacKay has previously written Algonquin, a general history of Algonquin Park featuring landscape photography by William Reynolds, Spirits of the Little Bonnechere: a History of Exploration, Logging and Settlement, 1800 to 1920, of Algonquin's Bonnechere River. He is also author of A Chronology of Algonquin Park History, and More About... the Algonquin Logging Museum Blacksmith shop, all available from The Friends of Algonquin Park. Rory and fellow historian Gaye Clemson have combined efforts in developing a series of short books providing "MORE ABOUT" specific topics related to the history of Algonquin Park. Other titles include: MORE ABOUT...The Ghosts of Canoe Lake by Gaye Clemson, MORE ABOUT...Algonquin Park's Portage Store by Gaye Clemson, MORE ABOUT ... Nominigan and Other Smoke Lake Jewels. Other publications from www.algonquinparkheritage.com include: Canoe Tripping in Algonquin Park: Then and Now Gertrude Baskerville: The Lady of Algonquin Park Algonquin Voices: Selected Stories of canoe Lake Women Rock Lake Station: Settlement Stories Since 1896 Treasuring Algonquin: Sharing Stories from 100 years of Leaseholding
This book provides information about the type of structure which housed the shantymen of the Ottawa Valley, during the lumbering period of the 19th Century. Included are quoted passages, both of contemporary observations and later recollections, about the construction and layout of the camboose shanties which served as kitchen, dining-room, living-room and bedroom all-in-one. Each narrative provides a slightly different perspective. Also included are details regarding the life-ways of the men who made it their home for the winter, year after year. This volume also describes the supplies needed in the camps and the manner in which both men and supplies were transported to the camps. There is also a chapter about the replica Camboose Shanty on display at the Algonquin Logging Museum in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario.
This looseleaf publication aims to cover every aspect of agricultural law. It is a guide to the complex business that constitutes farming. So, not only does it deal with the traditional areas of agricultural holdings and farm cottages, it also covers areas that have become just as important and potentially as troublesome such as conservation, quotas, product liability and agrochemicals.
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