Book description
Whether you hike, bike, ride the rails, or drive, the store of Lake
Ontario can yield a treasure trove of heritage sites and natural
beauty -- if you where where to look.
Travel with Ron Brown as he probes the shoreline of the Canadian
side of Lake Ontario to discover its hidden heritage. Explore
"ghost ports," forgotten coves, historical lighthouses,
rumrunning lore, and even the location of a top-secret spy camp. The
area also contains some unusual natural features, including a
mysterious mountain-top lake, sand dunes, and the rare albars of
Prince Edward County.
From small communities to the megacity of Toronto, history lives on
in the buildings, bridges, canals, rail lines, and homes that have
survived, and in the stories, both well-known and long-forgotten, of
the people and places no longer here. In From Queenston to
Kingston, Ron Brown provides today's explorer's with a window
into Ontario's not so distant past and shares a hope that, in future,
progress and historical preservation go hand in hand.
"The result [of author Ron Brown's efforts] is a book offering
many tantalizing details of interest to anyone with an
historical-geographical imagination and an attachment to the
locality."
Ron Brown is a freelance travel writer and
photographer. He has published twenty books on the visual heritage of
Ontario, including The Lake Erie Shore: Ontario's Forgotten South
Coast; Behind Bars: Inside Ontario's Heritage Gaols; The Train
Doesn't Stop Here Any More: An Illustrated History of Railway
Stations in Canada; Ontario's Ghost Town Heritage; and Top
100 Unusual Things To See In Ontario. He is past chair of the
Writers Union of Canada, and is active with the Travel Media
Association of Canada, Access Copyright, where he sits on the board of
directors, and the Book and Periodical Council. He lectures and
directs bus tours based on his book topics. He lives in East York with
his wife, June.
