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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
  • Sloane’s Melodeon Factory
  • Baking Bread Like a Pioneer
  • All Guns Are Not Created Equal
  • The Picture Worth a Thousand Words
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