Library Record

Metadata

Item ID#

A2013.125.026

Title

Queen's Bush tales

Object Name

Book

Author

Comber, Robert

Published Date

1988

Description

This book features stories about people and places mainly in the Grey County area of Williams Lake, Berkley and Holland Centre with a connection to Wiarton in Bruce County where the author did a presentation of survival skills at a fly in.

Table of contents includes:
- Ojibway Indian village
- Holland's lost gold mine
- The fiddler
- Bob McKay
- The Williams Lake Dredge
- Early Masons of Holland Township
- The Gypsies
- Harry Lovell's marvel
- John Chebeau
- The lowering of Williams lake
- Tom Rowe - Berkeley
- The logging chain
- Shanty Bay incident
- Peace time blackout
- Development of Marl operation helped create Williams Lake
- The Medicine Show
- Spirit Wood
- Murder in Holland
- Highjack in Holland
- Armstrong fly-in 1960
- Unk's little road louse
- Whiskey train wreck
- Gander the scene of many tragedies
- COPA Fly-in at Wiarton
- Comber Pioneer Village was movie location

Physical Description

73 p. : ill. ; 21.5 x 14.5 cm (beige ill. softcover)

Places

Holland Centre
Holland Township
Shanty Bay
Wiarton
Williams Lake
Williamsford

People

Armstrong, Mary
Chebeau, John
Comber, David
Comber, Freda
Comber, Robert
Comber, Susan
Comber, Sybil (Bland)
Lovell,Harry
McKay, Robert (Bob)
Rowe, Tom

Search Terms & Subjects

Agriculture
Airplanes
Business
Cemeteries
Events
Family
Farmers
First Nations culture
Fishing
Ghosts
Land use
Logging
Military
Rural life
Trains