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Museum Shop: Books
Online Ordering
| The Orillia Museum of Art & History’s unique collection of local publications and interest driven novels are easy to order and ship to anywhere in Canada and the U.S. That’s right! With one email or phone call, you will be well on your way to reading the unique book, novel or biography that you have found hard to find. Just follow these simple steps: Step One:
Call or email us with your name, contact information, the title of the publication and the Address it is being shipped to:
Orillia Museum of Art & History |
(705) 326-2159 |
Step Two:
Within 24 hours (up to 72 hours over weekends) we will contact you with the final total including shipping and to receive the billing information. We accept AMEX, VISA, and MASTERCARD. That same day your order will be shipped via regular Canada Post. You and your new book should be hand in spine within 10 business days (unless otherwise stated in ordering process).
Whether for a leisurely read or a gift for that special someone, Orillia Museum of Art & History has the right book for you. |
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Title: I’ve Been Shot At, What’s Your Excuse?
Author: Sherry Lawson
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-9784980-0-9
Join Sherry Lawson as she reminisces about events and people from her life and the lessons she has learned through them. Sherry Lynn Lawson (nee Douglas) is a member of Mnjikaning First Nation near Orillia, Ontario, the daughter of an Algonkian mother and Ojibway father. She grew up listening to the stories of her father and paternal grandmother. She worked for many years in libraries and still considers herself an information geek. Turning fifty and becoming a grandmother changed the way she looks at the world. Wanting to leave a record for her children and grandchildren, the result is this first book. Sherry’s hobbies include visiting museums and historic sites, reading slasher novels and watching horror movies (not all at the same time). Her search continues for the perfect restaurant-made rice pudding (with raisins).
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Title: 2007 Sunshine Scrapbook
Published by: The Orillia Packet & Times
Price: $9.95
ISBN: N/A
As well as providing a glimpse of long-lost streetscapes, this magazine will also help support efforts of the Research Room of the Orillia Museum of Art & History. This publication does two things. It celebrates our rich and fascinating local history, but it also stands as a testament to Orillians, who work so hard to make sure our past remains ever present. |
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Title: Beautiful Old Orillia
Author: Su Murdoch
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 0-9691864-2-8
By the end of the eighteenth century, the narrow passage between lakes Simcoe and Couchiching was known to many as the Narrows. There were at least three landings in the vicinity: at the Narrows where the settlement of Invermara marked the point at which a trail leading to Port Hope crossed Lake Simcoe, on the shore of Shingle Bay, and on Lake Couchiching where Orillia now stands. At these locations and along the connecting routes from eastern to western Canada, fur traders, aboriginals and settlers met. |
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Title: Foresters: The Canadian Quest for Peace
Author: Brian A. Brown
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 1-55046-017-X
The Power Shift that is causing such interest in the world has its Canadian ramifications. One hundred years ago public opinion really mattered on the Canadian frontier as Militia units frequently took the law into their own hands while governments dithered and eventually followed.
Opinion polls and the information explosion have brought us full circle so that public opinion at local level is once again the engine for war and the brake upon reckless military adventure.
The American public pulled U.S. forces out of Viet Nam. The Russian public required retreat from Afghanistan.
In early time the Canadian Community has exercised this influence on its politicians. Using the Forester Regiment based in typical small cities of Ontario, Brian Brown shows how that direct influence was lost in the twentieth century. The power shift away from the people and back again is documented in chapters like “Revolution Aborted”, “Invasion Thwarted”, “Civil War Averted”, “The Cost of Peace”, “Blessed Peacekeepers” and “Power Shift”.
Foresters also illustrates how the peacekeeping ideal originated in the ethos of early Canada. “Stalling around” and “massing in strength” are old Canadian techniques appropriate for the future in a world more worried about brush fire wars and unstable situations than the nuclear threat. |
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Title: History of Orillia’s Water Front
Author: Donald A. Hunter
Price: $14.95
This is a glimpse into the lives of the early settlers and their families who were involved in the development of approximately fifteen miles of Orillia’s shoreline on Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe, in the period between 1855 and 1985. They built sawmills, flourmills, refineries, distilleries, steamboats, hotels, factories, bridges and railways, all of which were instrumental in the development of this part of Orillia. Later, beautiful parks, lakeshore drives and residential areas would enhance the charm of this city along much of this same area.
Famous events took place on the waterfront that drew thousands of spectators to Orillia. Many world and North American records were set here. Lake Couchiching always played an important part in the celebrations of special holidays and events. Much of this is captured in this history for your enjoyment. |
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Title: Huronia: Cradle of Ontario’s History
Author: J. Herbert Cranston
Price: $5.99
Huronia is the modern name given to that lovely land around the southern shores of Georgian Bay where, in 1610, the white man’s story began in what is now the Province of Ontario.
Here, 350 years ago, native Huron Indians lived in bark-covered long-houses, each village encircled by palisaded walls made from the trunks of young trees.
Here the primitive Hurons tilled the soil, fished, hunted game, and trapped animals whose furs they sold to often unscrupulous white traders.
Here they fought against the Iroquois enemies who ultimately drove them from their homeland and all but destroyed the one-third population which had survived the smallpox and other diseases brought by the Europeans.
Here the destiny of New France, now Canada, whether it was to be ruled by French or English was in large measure decided.
Here in Huronia lay the key to North American History. |
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Title: The Old Brewery Bay: A Leacockian Tale
Author: James A. “Pete” McGarvey
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 1-55002-216-4
Here we have the personal account of the misadventures that preceded the opening to the public of the Leacock home in 1958. Forty years ago in October 1954, a committee was formed, chaired by Pete McGarvey, to acquire the preserve Stephen Leacock’s summer home, known as The Old Brewery Bay. Four years later a golden key opened the front door of the home, allowing Leacock fans to pay homage to the humorist in a setting he had prized above every other. As the years have passed, appreciation of Leacock’s genius has grown and today the Leacock Museum is open year-round to visitors from all parts of the globe.
The Old Brewery Bay is a Leacockian yarn full of ironies, the greatest one being that the salvation of Leacock’s home was accomplished not by a national campaign involving governments, philanthropists, McGill alumni, and foundations (all of whom were approached in a spirit of urgency and all of whom backed away), but a gang of naïve and stubborn Orillians, using old-fashioned political moxie. Leacock would have loved that – his Mariposans showing the sophisticated world how to get things done. |
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Title: The Story of Hunter Boats
Author: Donald A. Hunter
Price: $6.00
Ditchburn Boats Ltd. Of Gravenhurst, Ontario built two large boat-building plants in Orillia’s lakefront near the Royal Canadian Legion, in the years 1924 and 1926. They operated in this location from 1924 to 1931. The original company, which built small pleasure craft for Muskoka Lakes summer residents, began at Helmsley, now Rosseau, in Ontario 1875. |
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Title: Anecdotes of Olde Orillia: A Collection of the Works of Allan Ironside
Author: Allan Ironside
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-9691864-0
The early settlers and their landmarks and commemorative monuments; the reformers, dreamers, industrialists, inventors and prohibitionists – all came to mind when the real old timers spoke of the early days in Orillia.
We are grateful to Allan Ironside for researching and collecting these many varying items of local interest and presenting them to the members of the Orillia Historical Society in our monthly newsletter.
This historical material has been received enthusiastically by our members. We are proud to preserve some of these sketches in this book for the enjoyment of present members and friends who for the enlightenment of younger folk whose interest may be aroused in years to come. |
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Title: The Group of Seven: A Collection of 20 Rare Works Revealed
Author: C. G. Guthrie
Price: $2.50
ISBN: N/A
This catalogue has been written to accompany an exhibition of 20 never before seen works by The Group of Seven placed on loan at the Sir Sam Steele Art Gallery by a very generous anonymous collector. |
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Title: Adventures of Maxine: Tales of a Lady Groundhog
Author: Eleanor Anderson
Price: $12.95
ISBN: N/A
Imagine looking at the world from a low-down perspective, even an underground perspective. That’s how Maxine sees it. Maxine is a groundhog. She comes from humble beginnings, but manages to “rise to the occasion” as she travels around in rather unexpected ways.
Various liberties have been taken with natural history in these stories of a small creature of the earth and some of her associates. Here is life as it may be in some more kindly and interesting dimension. The stories are meant as gentle entertainment for young and old.
In familiar storybooks, teddy bears, mice and hedgehogs have adventures. Now here are groundhog adventures. Believing in Maxine is as easy as believing in purple dinosaurs, maybe easier. |
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Title: Art Smart
Author: Alan D. Bryce
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-1-55002-676-4
Art Smart is a comprehensive guide to the Canadian art market for both novice and experienced collectors. It is full of advice that can give anyone the tools they need to venture into the often intimidating world of art with confidence and make intelligent art purchases for pleasure and profit. |
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Title: Kitche-uwa’ne’: A Legend
Author: David Dupuis
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 0-9686511-0-0
Many hundreds of years ago on the shores of Georgian Bay, the Bear Tribe from the Huron village of Toanche on Penetanguishene Bay, found a baby the size of a man and raised him as their own. He grew to become a great giant named Kitche-uwa’ne’. His amazing story of kinship, love, rejection, betray yet ultimate forgiveness would culminate into the Giant’s creation of the five bays of the Severn Sound, Georgian Bay’s thirty-thousand islands and the Giant’s Tomb – which can still be seen today! Thus, he would become the greatest of Hurons and a true Georgian Bay legend.
This magical, timeless Huron myth is brought exquisitely to life in words and illustrations for the first time. It is a wondrous story the whole family will be able to enjoy time and again, and one you will not soon forget… |
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Title: Turning Clouds Inside Out: A Country Woman’s Life In The Twentieth Century
Author: Catherine R. Ashton
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 0-9780577-0-8
How many people live through an entire century? Very few.
And how many of those value history enough to preserve it in their minds and their possession, ready to be passed on to whoever is interested? Fewer still.
Margaret Isabella (Wallace) Beach was such a person. Blessed with a gift for story-telling and a phenomenal memory, she passed on many of her stories and possessions to her daughter, who has interwoven them with her memories and those of others to create this docu-narrative of one exceptional woman’s ordinary life. |
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Title: Letters to Edgewood Farm: From a Canadian Girl in World War II
Author: Catherine K. Drinkwater
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 1-894255-21-6
This is an autobiographical window of Catherine Drinkwater’s life using letters and photographs to express the thoughts and feelings of the time. The reader is led through some of the experiences of a young Orillia, Ontario girl serving as a soldier over-seas in World War II. It is quite easy to imagine ‘what it was like’
One might term it as a ‘love affair’ with a time and a place, the time being the Second World War and the place being Europe circa 1943/5. Even today, still living at Edgewood Farm, one can detect a sparkle in Catherine’s eyes as she reflects on her great adventure during those war years.
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Title: They came to Mara… Pioneers of Mara Township circa 1829-1900
Author: The Corporation of the Township of Mara
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 0-9697961-0-2
This book contains genealogical and pictorial information. It represents families who settled in Mara. |
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There are many more titles to choose at OMAH in the Museum Shop.
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