THE RECENT PAST - Simcoe County, Ontario

Craig, John (foreword by Allan Glassford)

ISBN 10: 0969069820 / ISBN 13: 9780969069829

Published by The Corporation of the County of Simcoe, Canada, 1977

About this Item

(xiii) 306 pp. Beige cloth decorated in copper on the front panel and spine; green endpaper maps; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Margot Anderson. The Contents are: Foreword by Allan Glassford; Preface; Simcoe County 1895; Huronia; The Great Days of Lumbering; Into the Modern Era; The Sunshine Years; The Great War 1914 - 1918; The Postwar Years; The New Forests; Sports; The Dirty Thirties; Ships in War and Peace; The Women of Simcoe County; Into the Fifties and Beyond; Agriculture; Past and Present; and The County Government; followed by notes, a bibliography and an index. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 234940

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE RECENT PAST - Simcoe County, Ontario
• Publisher: The Corporation of the County of Simcoe, Canada
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0969069820
• ISBN 13: 9780969069829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Margot Anderson
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • History - Canada

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Synopsis

1977, hardcover, the Corporation of the County of Simcoe, Canada, 306 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a lovely title, discussing life in one Canadian county, from the 1890s to the present. Here is everything from days of lumbering, popular songs, the first appearances of automobiles, the development of hydro power, the coming of the first war, tales of great athletes, the stock market crash, the coming of World War II, agriculture, and a man named Gordon Lightfoot.