Explore Books

A list of books profiled in the Open Book Explorer

• A Gentleman of Substance
• Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle and Other Steeltown Shivers
• Let Redpath Sweeten It
• The Train Doesn?t Stop Here Anymore: An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada
• 100 Fascinating Londoners
• 1812: A Guide to the War and its Legacy
• 19th Century Girls and Women
• A Childs Day
• A Crucible of Fire
• Acts of Courage: Laura Secord and the War of 1812
• Alias Grace
• Along The Shore: Rediscovering Toronto?s Waterfront Heritage
• An Oak Hunch
• Angel and the Bear
• Around the Shores of Lake Superior: A Guide to Historic Sites
• Aunt Winnie
• Austin Clarke: Essays On His Works
• Barns of the Queen?s Bush
• Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Historical Geography of the Finns in the Sudbury Area
• Bobbie Rosenfeld The Olympian Who Could Do Everything
• Breaking the Mould
• Canada Day
• Canadian Shield: The Rocks That Made Canada
• Casa Loma: Canada?s Fairy-Tale Castle and its Owner, Sir Henry Pellatt
• Children?s Clothing of the 1800s
• Christmas Long Ago
• Clinic Day
• Colonial Justice: Justice, Morality, and Crime in the Niagara District, 1791-1849
• Concrete and Wild Carrot
• Courage and Compassion: Ten Canadians Who Made a Difference
• Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture
• Cryptic Canada: Unsolved Mysteries from Coast to Coast
• Deeds/Abstracts: The History of a London Lot
• Dundurn Castle: Sir Allan MacNab and his Hamilton Home
• Elizabeth Simcoe?s Canadian Journey
• Explore With Henry Hudson
• Explore With Samuel de Champlain
• Exploring Niagara: The Complete Guide to Niagara Falls and Vicinity
• Faces on Places: A Grotesque Tour of Toronto
• Famous People of the War of 1812
• Fort Henry: An Illustrated History
• Fort Life
• From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City: A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury
• Glenn Cochrane?s Toronto: Tales of the City
• God?s Geography
• GreenTOpia
• Hamilton Street Names: An Illustrated History
• Hamilton: A People?s History
• Harvest Dust: Tales of Farm Life 1913-1976
• How Does the Canadian Government Work: People, Power, and Process
• HTO:: Toronto?s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets
• Hurry, Freedom
• Ice Storm, Ontario 2013: The Beauty, the Devastation, the Aftermath
• In The Skin of a Lion
• Indian River Tales
• Industrial Cathedrals of the North
• Inside The Museums: Toronto?s Heritage Sites and Their Most Prized Objects
• June Callwood: A Life of Action
• Just a Larger Family
• Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan?s Rescue from War
• Laura Secord: Heroine of the War of 1812
• Leaving Earth
• Liberty Is Dead: A Canadian in Germany, 1938
• Life in a Longhouse Village
• Life in a Residential City
• Life in an Anishinabe Camp
• Lunch With Lady Eaton: Inside The Dining Rooms of a Nation
• Maiden of the Mist: A Legend of Niagara Falls
• Major Battles of the War of 1812
• Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s
• Memoirs of the Beach: Reflections on a Toronto Childhood
• Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier
• Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada
• Morning Star
• My Name is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
• Nations of the Eastern Great Lakes
• Native Communities
• Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway
• Niagara-on-the-Lake: Its Heritage and Its Festival
• Nocturne
• North of Superior: An Illustrated History of Northwestern Ontario
• Not Paved With Gold
• One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way
• Only in Canada!: From the Colossal to the Kooky
• Ontario Boys: Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1941?1960
• Ontario Rocks: Three Billion Years of Environmental Change
• Ontario?s African-Canadian Heritage: Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967
• Oonagh
• Personal History
• Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh
• Redcoated Ploughboys
• Redpath
• Remembrance Day
• Restless on Huron
• Revenge on the Fly
• Rifke: An Improbable Life
• Road Rocks Ontario: Over 250 Geological Wonders to Discover
• Rusty Rails: A Photographic Record of Branchline Railways in Midwestern Ontario 1961-1996
• Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians
• Seven Eggs Today The Diaries of Mary Armstrong, 1859 and 1869
• Souwesto Home
• Still Hunting
• Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
• Stunt
• Surviving Incarceration: Inside Canadian Prisons
• Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812
• That?s Very Canadian!
• The Artemesia Book: Poems Selected and New
• The Ashes of War
• The Battle for Berlin, Ontario: An Historical Drama
• The Beach: An Illustrated History From the Lake to Kingston Road
• The Call to Arms
• The City Man
• The City Still Breathing
• The Convict Lover
• The Edible City: Toronto?s Food from Farm to Fork
• The Flames of War
• The Frances Smith: Palace Steamer of the Upper Great Lakes, 1867-1896
• The Gristmill
• The Kids Book of Black Canadian History
• The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad
• The Lazier Murder: Prince Edward County, 1884
• The Legacy of the War of 1812
• The Niagara Companion: Explorers, Artists, and Writers at the Falls from Discovery Through the Twentieth Century
• The Pendulum of War
• The Queen of Unforgetting
• The Queen?s Bush Settlement: Black Pioneers 1839-1865
• The Robber Bride
• The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls
• The St. Lawrence: River Route to the Great Lakes
• The State of The Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto
• The Tide of War
• The Toronto Story
• The Truth About Luck: What I Learned on My Road Trip with Grandma
• The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto
• The University of Toronto, A History
• The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost
• The Way to Come Home
• The World of Niagara Wine
• Theatre and Performance in Toronto
• Thinking About Criminal Justice in Canada
• This Side of Heaven: Determining the Donnelly Murders, 1880
• To Wawa With Love
• Toronto Sketches 11: The Way We Were
• Toronto?s Visual Legacy: Official City Photography From 1856 to Present
• Unbuilt Toronto 2: More of the City That Might Have Been
• Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been
• Understanding Crime in Canada: An Introduction to Criminology
• uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto
• Victorian Life
• Visiting a Village
• Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life
• Watermelon Syrup: A Novel
• We Lived a Life and Then Some: The Life, Death, and Life of a Mining Town
• What Caused the War of 1812
• When Fenelon Falls
• When This World Comes to an End
• Willowdale
• Women and the Criminal Justice System: A Canadian Perspective
• Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives that Changed Canada
• worn thresholds
• Wow Canada: Exploring This Land From Coast to Coast
• Yesterday?s Dead
• Young Hunting
• Your Last Day on Earth