Price: $40 CAN/$40 US
ISBN: 0-9682991-0-5
Year: 1997
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Photos: Black and white (See sample of photos)
Category: Local history

Description:
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 together glimpses of the lives of the people who founded and created the communities of South Crosby Township.

The land that became South Crosby was a formidable wilderness two hundred years ago. When Walter Davis began clearing a spot of land south of Elgin in 1800, he became the first white settler in the township. Although natives had established canoe routes on the waterways, there were no roads or trails to guide European settlers to their homesteads. But others soon followed Davis and their names are still familiar in the township today: Halladay, Haskins, Coon, Warren, Sly.

Hub of the Rideau was commissioned by the Township of South Crosby. It was published only weeks before the township became a ward of the new Township of Rideau Lakes, the creation of a wave of amalgamations that swept across Ontario.

Cover photo:
A visitor peers over the side of the Jones Falls horseshoe dam, a major engineering feat in the construction of the Rideau Canal.