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Brown's books are always interesting and bring to mind adventures. (Lois Cooper Muskoka Today 20071116)
Few people know more about Ontario's oddities than Toronto-based author Ron Brown... [and] they're almost all here (Diane Slawych The Toronto Sun 200712)
[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 20071219)
Most locations are easy to reach from Ontario's major population centres, and a few are for more adventurous explorers. (Northern Life 20071102)
A great gift for the traveller who wants to see impressive sights close to home. (Joan Sutter Shelf Life 20071215)
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 )
[Brown] collects the very best trips from the most unexpected and surprising sights in the province. (Andrew Armitage The Sun Times (Owen Sound, ON) )
[For] travellers who want to stay close to home but still enjoy an adventure. (Canwest wire story The Ottawa Citizen )
[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) )
Few people know more about Ontario's oddities than Toronto-based author Ron Brown... [and] they're almost all here (Diane Slawych The Toronto Sun 200712)
[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 20071219)
Most locations are easy to reach from Ontario's major population centres, and a few are for more adventurous explorers. (Northern Life 20071102)
A great gift for the traveller who wants to see impressive sights close to home. (Joan Sutter Shelf Life 20071215)
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 )
[Brown] collects the very best trips from the most unexpected and surprising sights in the province. (Andrew Armitage The Sun Times (Owen Sound, ON) )
[For] travellers who want to stay close to home but still enjoy an adventure. (Canwest wire story The Ottawa Citizen )
[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) )
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Uncovering the unexpected in Ontario -- from floating mansions to the province's very own Taj Mahal.
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 best-selling "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.
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, and a few are for more adventurous explorers. Locations include:
- North America's longest wooden bridge
- Ontario's Stonehenge
- The dune that ate the town
- Ghosts of the gold fields
- Boats in the air
- Holleford meteor crater
- Strange serpent mounds of Rice Lake
- The swamp that feeds the world
- Hell holes of Eastern Ontario
- Ontario's Taj Mahal
- Birdhouse City
- The floating mansions of Lemonville
- Magical Cyprus Lake grotto
- The country's smallest jail
- The eight-sided Main Street
- The mud church of Shanty Bay
- The telltale grave
- The world's shortest railway.
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They may be hard to identify at first, and they certainly do not count among Ontario's more spectacular landscapes, but they are one of our most unusual natural features. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
They may be hard to identify at first, and they certainly do not count among Ontario's more spectacular landscapes, but they are one of our most unusual natural features. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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