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