Author: GRAINGER, ROBERT
Title: Early Days in Westboro Beach - Reflecctions and Images [Ontario Local History]
Description: Ottawa, Ontario: Westboro Beach Community Association, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0973959800. Illustrated by Jones, David W.. "The Beach in Westboro has been a witness to the major events in Canadian history - Champlain and the early explorers, the fur traders and coureurs de bois, the early lumber barons like J.R. Booth and E.B. Eddy. The site of two major lumber mills, it was also the home of the popular Trocadero dance hall. Bob Grainger brings the history of the area alive, with stories and images about life in the community, focussing on the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s." - dust jacket. Westboro Beach is located on the Ottawa River twenty-five minutes west of Parliament Hill. xvi, 237 pages. Bibliography and index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Gift quality.; Dust Jacket; 4to. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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