Natural Heritage imprint: 143 books
Changing Parks
The History, Future and Cultural Context of Parks and Heritage Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1998
This important book is a must for everyone concerned with the heritage and future of Canada's parks. Contributors include an impressive assembly of noted park experts ranging from academic authorities and government parks personnel to concerned nonpolitical park supporters. Since the establishment...
Freshwater Heritage
A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Freshwater Heritage: A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918 represents the culmination of a lifelong passion for sailing and for the history of sail as it applies to Canada. Author/sailor/boat builder Don Bamford takes us deep into the psyche of sailing as it applies to historical events...
Every Trail Has a Story
Heritage Travel in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
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Canada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination. Scattered across the land are incredible tales of human life over the centuries. From the Majorville rock formation (dated as being older...
Behind Bars
Inside Ontario's Heritage Gaols
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail. Although Spartan inside, many are architectural wonders on the outside and...
Astrid Taim's Almaguin Chronicles 2-Book Bundle
Almaguin / Almaguin Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 kilometre corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch, and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers, and a lively history. Once considered as a site for a First Nations Reserve in the early...
Nature First
Outdoor Life the Friluftsliv Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Nature First combines the Scandinavian approach to creating a relationship with nature (known as friluftsliv) with efforts by Canadian and international educators to adapt this wisdom and apply it to everyday life experiences in the open air. The word friluftsliv literally refers to "free-air...
by Louise de Kiriline Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1988
A charming account of the author's special relationship with the birds and wild creatures who shared her northern homesite at Pimisi Bay, near Mattawa, Ontario.
The Loghouse Nest is another Natural Heritage classic by Canada's internationally acclaimed nature writer, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence.
Delightfully...
Discover Your Heritage
A Guide to Provincial Plaques in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1989
Since 1956 when Ontario’s historical plaquing program was begun, more than 1,000 markers have been erected throughout the province.
The range of subjects commemorated is astonishing – from mining rushes in northern Ontario to the invention of the socket-head screw … from Harold Innis...
Family Secrets
Crossing the Colour Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr. Anderson Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto in 1861. In Family Secrets Catherine Slaney narrates...
Nature's Year in the Kawarthas
A Guide to the Unfolding Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Nature’s Year in the Kawarthas is an almanac of key events occurring in the natural world over the course of a year in the Kawartha Lakes district – and in cottage country in general. Covering all areas of our flora and fauna as well as weather and the night sky, the book is a month-by-month chronicle...
More Than Birds
Adventurous Lives of North American Naturalists
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Once people encounter the natural world and become aware of its intricacy, fragility, beauty, and significance, they will recognize the need for conservation.
The fascinating development of natural history studies in North America is portrayed through the life stories of 22 naturalists. The...
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A Glimpse Into the Natural Life of a Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1986
"Writing with uncanny skill, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence leads us gently into the world of birds. Her perception, intuition and experience give her insights that she here freely shares with us all.
"I knew this remarkable lady for years, and had previously read her Mar, but on re-reading...
The Rouge River Valley
An Urban Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000
The Rouge River Valley, eleven thousand acres of urban wilderness, is a unique, yet very fragile and transient natural phenomenon existing within the confines of a major North American city, Toronto. Fed by the Oak Ridges Moraine, the Rouge river system has, over generations of time, cut its identity...
Parry Sound
Gateway to Northern Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Parry Sound, at the mouth of the Seguin River on Georgian Bay, traces its history back to William Beatty Jr. and the purchase of timber rights. From the heyday of lumbering, through mining ventures, the period of Prohibition, the arrival of the railway and the impact of the Great Wars, the unfolding...