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Local History Collection Booklist
Pioneering Spirit / Elizabeth Luther
Murder and Mayhem at Waubamik: The Shooting of Thomas Jackson / Adrian Hayes
Backhouses of the North / Muriel E. Newton-White
Guide book & Atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound
Parry Sound - Logging Days / John Macfie
A Long Night in Codroy / Donald G. Dodds
Off the Beaten Path at Golden Valley / Walter Hesman
The Doctor Who Never Refused a Call / M. A. Whittick
Letters Home / John Macfie
Fighting for Home and Country: Women Who Remember World War II / Janine Roelens-Grant
Looking Back with the Magnetawan Women's Institute
These Our Ancestors Were: Districts of Parry Sound and Muskoka
In Celebration of the Old Nipissing Road
Meanderings and Memories: Christie Township
East Georgian Bay Historical Journal, Volumes I-III (1981-1983)
Star Gazing: Reflections from the Parry Sound North Store / Laura Knight Heidman
Over the Hills to Georgian Bay: The Ottawa, Arnprior, and Parry Sound Railway / Niall MacKay
Hudson Bay Watershed: A Photographic Memoir of the Ojibway, Cree, and Oji-Cree / John Macfie and Bash Johnston
Now and Then: Footnotes to Parry Sound History / John Macfie
Now and Then: More Footnotes to Parry Sound History / John Macfie
Now and Then: Still More Footnotes to Parry Sound History / John Macfie
Parry Sound Old Times: Essays on Parry Sound District History / John Macfie
Lots More Parry Sound Stories: Essays on Parry Sound District History / John Macfie
Sons of the Pioneers: Memories of Veterans of the Algonquin Regiment / John Macfie
Tales from Another Time: Oral History of Early Times in Parry Sound District / John Macfie
McKellar Memories / Evelyn Watkins Moore
Along Memory Lane with Hagerman People: 1868-1972
Espanola on the Spanish / George R. Morrison
Then and Now: West Parry Sound Schools, 1865-1981. Volumes 1-3
Ontario Memories: Uncover the fascinating past of 73 communities we call home / Terry Boyle
Up the Great North Road: The Story of an Ontario Colonization Road / John Macfie
Disappearing Ontario: Images from our vanishing countryside / Ron Brown
Parry Sound 1987-1987 Historical Miniatures / Gustav A. Richar
The Free Grant Lands of Canada: from practical experience of bush farming in the free grant districts of Muskoka & Parry Sound / Thomas McMurray
Hagerman Centennial 1890-1990