Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub
Post Number: 109 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 9:32 am: | |
From the rowdy days of rumrunning, the revolutionary beginnings of Canada’s auto industry, lazy days swimming at Ford Beach, riding the steamer to Bob-Lo, ghost stories and cursed islands, travelling to the North Pole at Hudson’s, exiting the Underground Railroad, saying good-bye to those brave boys heading off to war – and so much more! The Best of the Times Magazine, 2006 Edition, by Walkerville Publishing Bursting with more than 300 stories and over 1,000 lovingly restored photos, gleaned from 56 issues of The Times Magazine and The Walkerville Times will be officially released at the: Walkerville Publishing Book Fair Featuring a terrific collection of local books crafted by Walkerville Publishing. The authors will be on hand to sign their books! Saturday, December 2, 2-5 pm Big Tony’s Pizza Co., 911 Walker Rd. (formerly California’s/Metropole) South entrance http://www.bigtonypizza.com/ Meet the authors, buy the books, get them signed! Free Appetizers! Door prizes! And cash bar. (Book payment options varies by author: Cash, Visa or Mastercard) 519-255-9898 e.mail: vanda@walkerville.com Read More at: http://www.thetimesmagazine.co m |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 1172 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 11:38 am: | |
I think the best one ever is Brian Leigh Dunnigan's Frontier Metropolis. |
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub
Post Number: 110 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 4:30 pm: | |
1953: Good book but... it ends in 1838... and doesn't really deal with Windsor much... |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 1177 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 5:56 pm: | |
Everything since 1838 is too bipolar to follow. |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3339 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 9:33 pm: | |
Hey 1953 has has reached his name sake with that post! |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 1178 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:39 pm: | |
I'll be darned....good catch. I only wish it had been a more positive post! |
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