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NORTH
OF 7...AND PROUD OF IT!
A parade of memories from North Hastings County
The
title with attitude tells you plenty about the independent
nature of the people of Bancroft and northern Hastings
County in eastern Ontario. Logging, lumbering, uranium
mining and hard-scrabble living have made them a proud
lot. READ
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 HUB
OF THE RIDEAU: A HISTORY OF SOUTH CROSBY TOWNSHIP
Hub
of the Rideau is much more than an account of the history
of South Crosby Township, Leeds County, Ontario. Using
diaries and records of surveyors, lockmasters, merchants
and farmers, author Susan Warren has pieced
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 OUR
MUTUAL CENTURY:
A HISTORY OF HAMILTON TOWNSHIP FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY
Our
Mutual Century was produced by Wallbridge House Publishing
as a corporate history of the Hamilton Township Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company ...
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 ROLLING
HILLS OF NORTHUMBERLAND:
A COUNTY HISTORY
Northumberland
County, a swatch of rolling land sprawled along the
north shore of Lake Ontario, was home to some of the
earliest settlers in Upper Canada. Loyalists fleeing
persecution after the
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 SHARDS
A
blizzard of impeccable quality,
With winds that'd rip your cheeks off.
Nothing city-slicker
about this beast,
An arctic rival howling down Bishop,
Racing round the corner at Ste-Catherine,
Ricocheting off cop cars,
Urgence santé, Purolator
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POEMS FROM A SHOEBOX
BYRON
AND THE BACKPACKER
We’ve travelled Europe, Byron
You with your title
Me with a rail pass.
You travelled long
with much luggage
living wherever you stopped.
Ours is much more the life of a turtle
everything we have upon our back
and still just a visitor wherever we are...READ
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