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Maggie’s Memories of a happy childhood
$15.00Author: Rebecca Humphrey Fraser
Edited by : Winston Fraser
Memphrémagog An Illustrated History Volume 2
$79.00
Memphrémagog, an Illustrated History
$79.00Louise Abbott
My Father’s People
$25.00
My Father’s People
$25.00A look into the roots of an Eastern Townships Family
Joan Windle Barnes
Nunaaluk: A Forgotton Story
$15.00Louise Abbott
Our Stories limited edition book
$15.00Our Stories, the community-created digital anthology produced by nonprofit organization Townshippers’ Association, has been released in a soft-cover book, limited to just 150 copies in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation.
Proceeds from the sale of this book will be reinjected into the Association’s Townships Expressions initiative which gives local English-speaking artists a way to promote and sell their works.
Philip Reid Mayhew
$39.00
Pilgrimage to Nigger Rock, Grampa Bob
$25.00
Quebec’s Eastern Townships-A Brief History of It’s Peoples, Politics and Economy Part 1
$25.00
Raise the Flag & Sound the Cannon
$24.00The period was 1842 – 1849. The diary started in England where a bankrupt solicitor named John Rumsey from High Wycombe, was banished to America. The diary covered the sea voyage to New York, the canal boats to Lake Ontario and the steamers and barges to Canada. During Rumsey’s lengthy stay in Montreal he met an Irish servant who had fallen on hard times. Rumsey tried to help him. According to his diary: This being a country in which great things sometimes come from little beginnings, I suggested to a poor Irish servant, the vending of a corn medicine. I gave him a recipe, a fine name for it and an elaborate account of its merits. I mixed up the first fourteen bottles, the Queen’s Printer gave publicity to it and after sending the bottles among the Canadians, my Irish friend is now practising his profession in the wide spread and free soil of the Yankee.The diary ended the day his lodgings and the Montreal parliament buildings burnt down in 1849. While I wrote the biography, I felt that it was no way to end a book — and so began the birth of the novel, Raise the Flag & Sound the Cannon …
John J. Davison