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Barns of the Queen's Bush 

by  Jon Radojkovic

Launched in a barn where you are as likely to hear classical music as the cooing of pigeons or the lowing of cows, a book celebrating traditional timber-frame structures is the latest publication of the Brucedale Press.

Barns of the Queen's Bush, written by Jon Radojkovic, chronicles twenty-three barns and two mills.  While many of the featured barns are familiar to travellers on country roads in Grey and Bruce, several are gone.  It's partly those disappearances that prompted Jon to compile the book.

"I tried to capture through photographs the intricate designs and craftsmanship of 19th century builders," he says.  "These large timber frames, some 30 metres by 20 metres, were put together without one nail--only accurate notching and hardwood dowels have held whole barns together for over a hundred years."

Barns of the Queen's Bush includes a chapter on barn raisings and a guide to the language of barn-building.  It features more than 200 photographs, as well as line drawings by Durham-area artist Mary Tripp MacCarl.  Both a quality softcover version and a limited hardcover edition are available.

For the past ten years, Jon Radojkovic has freelanced as a photographer and journalist with the Owen Sound daily newspaper, The Sun Times, and local weeklies such as The Chesley Enterprise and The Markdale Standard, and the monthly Mosaic.  Barns of the Queen's Bush is his first book.

160 pages, Third printing now available. This edition uses Forest Stewardship Council
certified papers and remains at $35.00/copy.(plus GST when mailed to Canadian addresses) ISBN 1-896922-15-5   978-1-896922-15-7

 



BRUCE Day by Day 

Artist  Kenneth L. Thornburn    Researcher/compiler Anne Duke Judd


BRUCE Day by Day is an every-year daybook celebrating the heritage of Bruce County.
It’s a place to meet pioneers and poets, artists and athletes, to read about farming accomplishments and factory start-ups, lighthouses and lake boats.


As much a ‘when was when’ as a ‘who was who’ it gives dates for storms and shipwrecks, fires and floods that have tested the determination for which Bruce County people are famous. Here too, are snippets of whimsy brightening days from 1860 to 2010.

To the compilation in these 112 pages, readers can add their own significant dates as they experience BRUCE Day by Day.


 Format includes 54 original drawings by Kenneth L. Thornburn.    ISBN 978-1-96922-47-8        spiral bound    $14.00      
 

 




FrontRunners Niigaanibatowaad
 
by Laura Robinson
 
This powerful two-act play reveals the hidden story of the Aboriginal runners who carried the torch to the 1967 Pan-American Games at Winnipeg. Denied access to the stadium at that time, in 1999 the surviving runners received an apology from the Province and a standing ovation from the crowd. Laura Robinson has worked closely with surviving frontrunners to create a script that begins when they were boys in residential school. The play forms the basis for the film of the same title, to be distributed by the NFB.


The book includes full text of the script, the playwright’s notes, cast lists, and still photographs. 

 FrontRunners on DVD is now distributed through the National Film Board.

Please e-mail for information.
Full-colour cover   60 pages size 8.5 x 11, stapled        Cdn$12.00 ISBN 978-1-896922-39-3 









Heroes in Waiting: The 160th Bruce Battalion in the Great War 

by  Allan Bartley

The story of the men away, through their letters, diaries and memoirs, and of their families and communities at home, a generation of Canadians whose shadow falls on us yet.

224 pages, 16 page photo section, hardcover   $27.95  ISBN 0-9698716-8-6  978-0-9698716-8-2



Indian River Tales

compiled by  Anne Duke Judd from the Muskoka Roots Collection, a scrapbook history of Port Carling's real main street, the Indian River.

138 pages, over 100 photos, softcover    $21.50  ISBN 0-9698716-4-3   978-0-9698716-4-4
 

Package of 5 matching notecards with colour photographs by  Robert D. Judd  $4.50





RESTLESS on Huron 

by John G. Mackay.
 
 From 1937 until the mid 1960s, RESTLESS and RESTLESS TOO carried passengers along the coast of Lake Huron between Port Elgin  and Southampton, Ontario.  John G. Mackay rode aboard from babyhood while his father, George Mackay, operated the vessel. Later, John crewed for both his father and partner Addie Cairns. To present the story of the building and sailing of the boats, John has spent several years researching old newspapers, family documents, and interviewing those who recall the harbours as they once were.



Generously illustrated with nostalgic photographs, this book will stir memories of the many folks for whom a ride on RESTLESS highlighted summer on the lakeshore. 



80 pages quality softcover 5.5 x 8.5 inches with more than 60 nostalgic photographs  Cdn $15.00
ISBN    978-1-896922-40-9 


  




Rusty Rails: A photographic record of branchline railways in Midwestern
Ontario 1961-1996 

by John R. Hardy, documents 35 years in the history of rural transportation. With more than 200 original photographs by the author, this book coveys a personal approach to the rail lines that once criss-crossed the Ontario map. 
A short excerpt from Rusty Rails has been provided for your enjoyment.

 168 pages, quality softcover with 8 full-colour and many B& W photos $34.95
 ISBN 1-896922-20-1  978-1-896922-20-1











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