Explore the remnants of vanished villages across Ontario's cottage
country.
Crumbling foundations lost in the forest, weathered buildings leaning
wearily with age, cracked tombstones jutting from the ground -- all
serve as haunting reminders of once thriving villages that have since
been abandoned. Each of these locales has a distinct story to tell,
stories that until now were confined to fading memories and grainy
photographs.
From the northern shores of Georgian Bay to the eastern reaches of the
Kawarthas, Ontario's cottage country is littered with vanished villages,
including settlementera farm communities, railway whistlestops, and
logging hamlets. Within these pages, readers will venture into Ontario's
past to learn how these communities lived and died and to meet the
people who invested their hopes and dreams in them. Dozens of
photographs, many historical and never before published, bring these
ghost towns back to life.
Join Andrew Hind in exploring over a dozen villages across the districts
of Parry Sound and Nipissing, Muskoka, and the Haliburton Highlands.
