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What would Manitoulin residents have been reading in the 1870s?
How Newspapers Shaped Manitoulin Island in the 1870s
The Significance of Letter Writing in the 1870s
Why Manitoulin Residents are Known as Haweaters
The Impact of Alcohol on Families in 19th Century Ontario
The Geologic History of Manitoulin Island
When A Boom Goes Bust
Garafraxa Road
And Nothing But The Truth
Airing Laundry in Public
Memoirs of a (Not So) Great Canadian Detective
Out of the Frying Pan
Farming the Unfarmable
The Problem of Trees
The Slow Pace of Settlement
A History of Fires
Unfamiliar Words
Poultices Cured Pretty Much Everything
Finally!
What's in a Name
She Said What?
The History Keepers
The Amazing Thing About Research
Farming 19th Century Style
Tracking Down a Missing Map
Getting to Know Eleanor Bryan
What Became of Arthur Bryan?
Nothing Says Family Quite Like a Subpoena
When Is a Road Not a Road?
A Boyish Almost Feminine Appearance
A Glorious Hodgepodge of Information
The Proton Murder of 1861
To Bee or Not To Bee
Sloaneās Melodeon Factory
Baking Bread Like a Pioneer
All Guns Are Not Created Equal
The Picture Worth a Thousand Words