The nine women who write the family history blog Genealogy Ensemble have fleshed out the dashes between the dates on their family trees, chosen their favourite stories about their ancestors and published them in a new book called "In Beads in a Necklace: Family Stories from Genealogy Ensemble."Inspired by family myths, heirlooms, letters, and vintage photographs, these are historically accurate stories with a huge heart. They describe the lives of merchants and military men, societ...

Hiking in Eastern Ontario is taken from Hiking in Ontario from Ulysses Green Escapes Guides. This affordable chapter is a great tool to organize your next hiking trip in Eastern Ontario. Hiking trails in eastern Ontario showcase both natural wonders and marvels of human ingenuity. On the natural side, there are vast plains of gneiss, pink granite mountains and ridges, mixed forests of maple and pine, fields of orchids, vast marshes, beaver dams, smooth lakes and flowing rivers. Hiking in E...

Hiking in Multi-Regional Trails is taken from Hiking in Ontario from Ulysses Green Escapes Guides. This affordable chapter is a great tool to organize your next hiking trip in multiple regions of Ontario. Canada’s first long-distance walking trail was completed in Ontario in 1967, just in time for the country’s 100th birthday, Known as the Bruce Trail, this footpath followed the ridge of the Niagara Escarpment for 700 km (434 miles). It has been extended since then, and now runs 1,285 km (...

Hiking in the Greater Toronto and the Niagara Peninsula is taken from Hiking in Ontario from Ulysses Green Escapes Guides. This affordable chapter is a great tool to organize your next hiking trip in the Greater Toronto and Niagara Peninsula area. The Toronto and Niagara areas of Ontario wrap around the corner of Lake Ontario, following and extending from the most visible landmark in the area, a ridge of glacier-deposited rock known as the Niagara Escarpment. They extend north as far as th...

The Ulysses Hiking in Ontario guide describes the best hikes in each of Ontario's regions, including the Niagara Peninsula, the Greater Toronto Area and the Lakelands. In addition to providing descriptions of hikes in more than 50 areas that are classified by level of difficulty, a thorough portrait of the natural wonders of Ontario is supplied, enabling backcountry hikers discover the rich flora and fauna of the province and make the most of their adventures. This guide covers many of Ont...

Il contient la description détaillée d’une trentaine de circuits empruntant les plus belles routes et les plus beaux sentiers de la province la plus peuplée du Canada. Cycling in Ontario s’adresse autant aux débutants qu’aux cyclistes chevronnés. On y trouve de multiples conseils sur la sécurité, la description des attraits que les cyclistes rencontreront en cours de route, une sélection de bonnes adresses pour l’hébergement et la restauration, ainsi que des indications quant au niveau de ...

Hiking in Northwestern Ontario is taken from Hiking in Ontario from Ulysses Green Escapes Guides. This affordable chapter is a great tool to organize your next hiking trip in Northwestern Ontario. Hiking has always been popular in northwestern Ontario as more than a simple form of recreation. Here, people also rely on hiking (or portaging) as an opportunity for spiritual awakening and as an essential mode of transportation that fills in when other modes disappoint. Hiking in Northwestern O...

Hiking in Central Ontario is taken from Hiking in Ontario from Ulysses Green Escapes Guides. This affordable chapter is a great tool to organize your next hiking trip in Central Ontario. People familiar with Central Ontario often call the region “cottage country”. So many generations have been attracted to the lakeshores in this area that the names of many of its lakes have taken on mystical meanings associated with relaxation, warmth and sun. Hiking in Central Ontario offers 16 trails in ...

Hiking in Northeastern Ontario is taken from Hiking in Ontario from Ulysses Green Escapes Guides. This inexpensive chapter is a great tool to organize your next hiking trip in Northeastern Ontario. More than two thirds of the vast region of north-eastern Ontario, which begins at Lake Nipissing and ends at James Bay, lies north of the tree line in a sea of unending tundra. Hiking in Northeastern Ontario offers 12 trails in the region like Elliot Lake Hiking Trail, Samuel de Champlain Provin...

The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents wit...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, sh...

With over 15,000 copies sold, Cycling the Kettle Valley has proven to be a remarkable resource for anyone interested in the stunning abandoned railbed located in the southern interior of British Columbia. One of the premier rail trails in North America, it contains spectacular sections through impressive canyons requiring tunnels and trestles to carry the railbed through rock ridges and across mountain streams. Growing public interest in conservation of the railbed and its structu...