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Top 100 Unusual Things to See in Ontario [Paperback]

Ron Brown (Author)
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Publication Date: Aug 15 2005

In his relentless quest to discover the unusual, Ron Brown has traveled nearly every road in Ontario. This book features 100 of the very best trips from his three bestselling 50 Unusual collections: 50 Unusual Things to See in Ontario, 50 Even More Unusual Things to See in Ontario, and Ontario's Secret Landscapes: 50 More Visits to Unusual Ontario. This is the first time these bestselling books have been updated and compiled into a "best of" format.

What's an unusual thing? "Anything that is unexpected. Something that shouldn't belong where you found it." Most locations are easy to reach from Ontario's major population centers, a few are for more adventurous explorers.

Trips include:

  • North America's Longest Wooden Bridge
  • Ghosts of the Gold Fields
  • Holleford Meteor Crater
  • The Swamp That Feeds the World
  • Ontario's Taj Mahal
  • The Floating Mansions of Lemonville
  • The Eight-Sided Main Street
  • The Telltale Grave
  • Ontario's Stonehenge
  • The Dune That Ate the Town
  • Boats in the Air
  • Strange Serpent Mounds of Rice Lake
  • Massacre at Reesor Siding
  • Hell Holes of Eastern Ontario
  • Birdhouse City
  • Magical Cyprus Lake Grotto
  • The Country's Smallest Jail
  • North America's Longest Stone-Arch Bridge
  • The Mud Church of Shanty Bay
  • The World's Shortest Railway

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Few people know more about Ontario's oddities than Toronto-based author Ron Brown...[and] they're almost all here in this new revised edition. (Diane Slawych The Toronto Sun 2007)

Brown's books are always interesting and bring to mind adventures. (Lois Cooper Muskoka Today 2007)

We can hope that [Brown's] efforts to celebrate Ontario's past and present wonders will attract a new generation of readers and travellers. (Linda Turk Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal 2007)

Most locations are easy to reach from Ontario's major population centres, and a few are for more adventurous explorers.

With 100 places to see, along with facts, figures, and photos, this would definitely offer a great gift for the traveller who wants to see impressive sights close to home. (Joan Sutter Shelf Life 2007)

Few people know more about Ontario's oddities than Toronto-based author Ron Brown.... They're all here in this new revised edition. (Diane Slawych Toronto Sun 2007)

[Brown] collects the very best trips from the most unexpected and surprising sights in the province. (Andrew Armitage The Sun Times (Owen Sound, ON) 2007)

[For] travellers who want to stay close to home but still enjoy an adventure. (Canwest wire story The Ottawa Citizen 2007)

[Brown] has the gift of finding lots of things interesting and of them being able to write beautifully about those things. (Linda Turk Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay) 2007) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Ron Brown has written a dozen books on Ontario's ghost towns and roadside attractions (both natural and unnatural). He is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio, and his travel articles have appeared in North American newspapers and magazines. He lives in Toronto.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Love, love, love this book Mar 19 2010
By A. K. Hastie
Format:Paperback
My husband and I found this book while we were still dating and fell in love with it. We've made it our goal to visit every place in this book. We've had so many fun, adventurous dates visiting the places in the book. And most of them are free. We can't wait for good weather to go on some more trips. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because the directions are often tricky to follow (though most places are market on road maps) and they are not grouped in any order. My husband went through the book and made a list of the places close together so that we could visit 2 or 3 in the same day as many are not far from each other or on the way to a further one. The background and history for each place is interesting. Makes a great coffee table book even if you don't visit the places.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book for Ontarians Mar 7 2008
By RP
Format:Paperback
For Ontarians there is nothing like Ontario. I strongly encourage every citizen of Ontario to explore his or her own backyard first, before even dreaming of expensive and usually unfulfilling European or Caribbean vacations. There is so much to see and do right at home. Ron Brown's books are an outstanding contribution to accomplishing this task. This particular book is the best in his series.
Even non-Ontario residents will find this book extremely interesting.
I waited about 6 months to get this book through Amazon even though it is "in stock", before finally buying it at the local bookstore where it was available all along.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Travel Companion July 5 2009
By BLaufman
Format:Paperback
I'm a bit of a history nut, so I found it hard to put this book down. There's everything from old historic churches, to unique grave stones (that took me 20 minutes to decipher!). If you like to travel around off-the-beaten-tracks, this book is an excellent companion. While there were some that I had stumbled across in my own travels, this book provided suppliamentary information about them that I thought was great. I only wish there were some more specifics about the location - GPS co-ordinates for example would have been a great idea.
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