Randy Richmond

The Orillia Spirit

An Illustrated History of Orillia

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Produktbeschreibung

Something about Orillia, immortalized in Stephen Leacock's classic Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, has always inspired its people to reach for their dreams. The results have been comic, tragic, and heroic, as shown in this colourful history of Orillia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 251mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781459739604
• ISBN-10: 1459739604
• Artikelnr.: 46764309

Autorenporträt

Randy Richmond is an award-winning journalist living in London, Ontario. He is the former editor of The Packet & Times in Orillia, where he wrote the first Orillia Spirit, married, and had three children. He is the coauthor of Colossal Canadian Failures 1 and 2, also published by Dundurn Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter One: A Meeting
What's in a Name? In Orillia, Confusion
A Forgotten Village
Chapter Two: An Inevitable Clash
From Hotel to Asylum
"The trees, I never saw the likes of them."
Chapter Three: The Lumber Boom
Canada's First Medical Plan
The Dry Days Begin
The Finest Position in the Dominion
Churches
Steaming into Legend
Chapter Four: The Orillia Spirit
A Motoring Adventure
A Monument to the Past
A Fairy-Tale Ending
Chapter Five: King Ben
Chasing Rum-Runners and Nazis
Chapter Six: Anything Was Possible
A Leacockian Tale
The Centre a Community Built
Chapter Seven: Some Dreams Just Won't Die
The Long Wait for a Drink
Chapter Eight: Big City Dreams, Small Town Reality
A Smaller Dream
Chapter Nine: The Spirit Returns
Chapter Ten: Haunting Dreams
And the Spirit Looks Like What?
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