Archive Record

Metadata

Item ID#

A2013.125.029

Title

Vanished villages : discover whistestops, old mills, lost hamlets, relics and ruins of Ontario

Edition

First

Object Name

Book

Dates of Creation

1996

Creator

Brown, Ron

Description

"These are some of the vanished villages of old Ontario, dotting the map from Hudson Bay to the U.S. border. Here is a fascinating collection of true tales about personalities and places from the past." (From summary on back cover)
The lost lake ports include ports on Lake Huron like Port Bruce whose residents relocated to Tiverton when it was abandoned. Port Head, 5 km north of Kincardine, was abandoned after only a decade.

Table of contents include:
- Fur forts and musket balls
- The lost lake ports
- Crossroads hamlets
- Ghosts of the bay
- Great colonization road scheme
- Whistlestops
- Gold seekers and silver linings
- The drowned villages
- The railside ghosts of the north
- Ontario's industrial minerals

Level of Description

Item

Physical Description

207 pages : illustrations ; 22.5 x 17 cm (softcover)

Places

Kincardine
Lake Huron
Port Bruce
Port Head
Tiverton

Search Terms & Subjects

Floods
Fur trade
Ghosts
Mills
Railways (railroads)