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Canadian-made W.J. Hughes "Corn Flower" is a distinctive floral design cut on glass stem and tableware. Produced from 1914 to 1988, Corn Flower was a popular gift item, widely collected and used by at least three generations of Canadian families. Corn Flower: Creatively Canadian contains a history of the Hughes family in Ontario, the life and work of Jack Hughes and the detailed business history of the Company from its inception in the basement of the family home to becoming a popular Canadian corporation.Collectors from across North America will be fascinated by the profusion of splendid photographs, both black & white and colour, of the Corn Flower lines of glassware, many from the original company catalogues. Within the text are clues to the identification of authentic Corn Flower and the differentiation of blanks.

How did we get to be US? Who are WE? This story, set some 50,000 years ago when an almost explosive change in people's behaviour occurred, addresses these questions.

These poems, grouped into seasonal activities or observations, celebrate the rural world of 1940s farming.

A history of explorations of the Arctic in Canada, beginning with Otto Sverdrups 18981902 Norwegian expedition.

Black Creek Pioneer Village is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in southern Ontario during the 1800s.

Depuis que le programme de comm moration historique fut inaugur par le gouvernement de l'Ontario en 1956, plus de 1 000 plaques ont t rig es d'un bout l'autre de la province.

Samuel Edward Weir Q.C. (1898-1981), a man both loved and reviled with scorn, was born in London, Ontario. Descended from pioneer stock, with roots in both Ireland and Germany, Samuel Weir possessed incisive wit, exceptional intelligence and a passionate zest for any subject that caught his eye. Over a period of sixty years he built an extraordinary collection of approximately one thousand works of outstanding art and sculpture.This extensively researched biography of a talented yet quixotic lawyer who contributed much to Canada's heritage begins in the early 19th century and covers well over a hundred years of our nation's growth, until his death at his home, River Brink, in Queenston, Ontario.Today, River Brink is the gallery in which The Weir Collection is exhibited and housed.

A poem celebrating Algonquin Provincial Park on the occasion of its centennial, with outstanding historic illustrations.

A sequel to The Place in the Forest, this book conjures up the sounds, the smells, and the very feel of water-based life over every season.

A chance encounter led Catherine Slaney to investigate her family genealogy and revealed her great-grandfather, Dr. A.R. Abbott, Canada's first African-Canadian doctor.

Peter Jailall continues his search for home in his third volume of poetry, exploring the open, dangerous landscape of a post-September 11th world.

In this account of an 800-mile canoe trip - which begins at Reindeer Lake on the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border, continues into Nunavut past the treeline, and ends on Hudson Bay - Peter Kazaks conveys the experience of being in the north by describing the daily details that bring the trip to life.

Birds of Ontario contains an identification and description of all species, with 344 outstanding colour plates.

Teased by her older brother, bullied by popular girls at school, and plagued by an unsightly pimple on her nose, 12-year-old Claire Murphy finds a mysterious book of spells that may soon solve her problems.