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• ​ASLC:  Books About Ston(e)y Lake

• Stoney Lake Community Website:  Books About Ston(e)y Lake

• Upper Stoney Lake:  Gem of the Kawarthas - Bibliography (with permission from Lesley Wootton and the family of Gordon Berry)

  • Adams, Peter and Taylor, Colin (eds.), Peterborough and the Kawarthas, 2nd ed. Peterborough Heritage   Publications, 1992.

  • Adams, Wm. Richard.  "The Rice Lake Serpent Mound Group", Bulletin of the Division of Art and Archeology.  The Royal Ontario Museum, 24 (1956) 14-19,

  • Amys, J.H., The Story of Ishpenning Stony Lake 1900.  Privately published, c. 1950.

  • Angus, James, A respectable Ditch, History of the Trent Severn Waterway 1833-1920,  Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 1988.

  • Angus, James, Severn River An Illustrated History, Orillia: T  Severn Publications Ltd. 1995.

  • Aron, Cindy S., Working at Play, A History of Vacations in the United States,  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  • Baird, Nicol Hugh, Report on the Most Eligible Route for a Canal between Lake Simcoe and Rice Lake.

  • Ballstadt, Carl, Elizabeth Hopkins and Michael Peterman (eds.), Letters of a Lifetime, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.

  • Barker, Grace, Timber Empire, The Exploits of the a  Entrepreneurial Boyds, Fenelon Falls: Dawn Publishing, 1997.

  • Benidickson, Jamie, Idleneww, Water and a Canoe, Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 1997.

  • Berry, Gordon and Wootton, Lesley, Upper Stoney Lake, Gem of the Kawarthas, 2002, Woodberry Publications.

  • Bond, Hallie, Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks, Syracuse:  Adirondack Museum/Syracuse University Press, 1995.

  • Bowley, Robert, Plaqued Historic Sites in Peterborough and Area, Peterborough: Rebel Publishing 1998.

  • Bray, Maynard, The Guide to Wooden Power Boats, New York:  Wm. Norton, 2998

  • Brunger, Alan G (ed.) Harvey Township, An Illustrated History. Peterborough:  The Greater Harvey Historical Society, 1992.

  • Cameron, Dr. G. Donald, "Canoe Trip to New York 1914" Unpublished manuscript.  Peterborough: November, 1968.

  • Cameron, Dr. G. Donald, "The Development of the Canoe in the Kawarthas."  Monthly Meeting, Peterborough    Historical Society , PCMA, March, 1975. 

  • Cameron, Dr. G. Donald, The Canadian Canoe Co.(Limited) Peterborough:1894 R:  The Reprint Roger MacGregor, 1999.

  • Cameron, Dr. G. Donald, Peterborough Land of Shining Waters, Peterborough Centennial Committee for the City and County of Peterborough, 1967.

  • Cameron, Dr. G. Donald, Through the Years in Douro, Peterborough:  Centennial Committee of the Township of Douro, 1967. 

  • Carmichael, Don, The Doctors Carmichael  1854-1904  p. 58 re Oakridge Camp D.K. Communications Ltd., 1994.

  • Catalogue: The Canadian Canoe Co. Canoes, Skiffs and Steam Launches, Roger MacGregor - Publisher, 1999.

  • Catalogue: Peterborough Canoes , Roger MacGregor - Publsher, 1999.

  • Clarke, Ruth, Before the Silence, Fifty Years in the History of Alderville First Nations 1825-1875; Victoria, B.C.  Alderville First Nations, 1999.

  • Cole, A.O.C. and Jean Murray Cole (gen. eds.), Illustrated Historical Atlas of Peterborough County 1825-1875. Peterorough: The Peterborough Historical Society, 1975.

  • Cole, A.O.C. and Jean Cole (ge. eds.), Kawartha Heritage Proceedings of the Kawartha Conference, 1981.  Peterborough: Peterborough Historical Atlas Foundation, 1981.

  • Cole, Jean Murray, The Loon Calls, A History of the Township of Chandos. Peterborough: publ. Municipality of the Township of Chandos, 1989.

  • Cole, Jean Murrory, (ed.)., Origins, The History of Dummer Township, Peterborough: Township of Dummer, 1993.

  • Cole, Jean Murray, "Sandford Fleming No Better Inheritance"Occasional paper 11, Peterborough: Peterborough   Historical Society, 1990.

  • Craig, John, The Clearing, Markham:  Longman Pocket Book Edition, 1976.

  • Craig, John, and Nick Nichels. The Lunge Hunter, The Life and Times of Alex Sharpe, Woodview, Ont.: Frances Craig and Nickels, 1983.

  • Craig, John, By the Sound of Her Whistle, Toronto:  Peter Martin Associates, 1966.

  •    "        The Last Canoe, Peter Martin Associates, Toronto, 1979

  •    "        Chappie and Me, Dodd, Mead, New York, 1979.

  •    "        Close Doesn't Count, MacMillan, Toronto 1975.

  •    "        How Far Back Can You Get, Doubleday, Toronto, 1974

  •    "        Some of my Best Friends are Fishermen, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1976.

  • Cross, Amy Willard, The Summer House, A Tradition of Leisure, Harper Perennial, 1992.lley

  • Denton, Trevor,  " Samuel Champlain's Trip from Lake Simcoe to Lake Ontario, September 1615 AD; Route, Readings Recognition" Brandon Univer1996sity unpublished ms.,1996.

  • Dibb, Gordon, "A Review of Archeological Investigations and Site Potential along the west side of Lake Katkchawanoooka ate developggreg in South Township, Peterborough, Ont.: Lakefield to Young's Point".  Document prepared by York North Archeological Services regarding proposed aggregate development.  Peterborough ;  January 1998.

  • Duff, Garth, Hazy Days in Dummer, Peterborough ; Self-published 1991.

  • Durant, Kenneth, The Naptha Launch, Utica: Adirondack Museum of the Adirondack Historical Assoc., 1976.

  • Durnford, Hugh and Glenn Baechler, Cars of Canada. Toronto:  McClelland and Stewart, 1973.

  • Elston, Georgia, (ed) Nelson's Falls to Lakefield, A History of the Village, Lakefield Historical Society, 1999. 

  • Ferguson, D., "It's Summertime...and the Dippys are coming!(back)" Katchewanooka Herald (Lakefield, Ont.)  10 ion Dec.1999.

  • Francis, Daniel, "I Remember..."  An Oral History of the Trent Severn Waterway,  Peterborough:  Friends of the Trent Severn Waterway, 1984.

  •       "      The Gathering, The Rural and Native Heritage Cookbook, Vol 1, Lovesick Lake Native Women's Association, 1985.

  • Grant, Shelagh, The Hope Mill, Occasional publication by the Otonabee Region Conservation Authority, Peterborough: 1979.

  • Gray, Charlotte, Sisters in the Wilderness, The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail, Toronto, Penguin   Books. 1999.

  • Guillet, Edwin C., Valley of the Trent, University of Toronto Press, 1957.

  • Guillet, G. Robert, Mining at Nephton, An Occasional Paper Published by the Peterborough Historical Society, Peterborough, 1998.

  • Historical Atlas of Peterborough County, 1975.

  • Hodgins, Bruce W. and Hobbs, Margaret, Nastawgan: The Canadian North by Canoe and Snowshoe.Toronto:  Betelgeuse Books, 1985.

  • Hooke, Katharine, From Campsite to Cottage; Early Stoney Lake, Peterborough Historical Society , 1992.

  • Hooke, Katharine, St. Peter's -on-the-Rock, Seventy-Five Years of Service, Peterborough: Anniversary Committee St. Peter's -on-the-Rock, 1989.

  • Hooke, Katharine and Bentham, Christie, From Burleigh to Boschink, Heritage Books, Toronto, 2000.

  • Howe, C.D. and White, J.H. Trent Watershed Survey, A Reconnaissance, Ottawa: Commission for Conservation Canada, 1913.

  • Huffman, Doris, Kawartha Park by Path and Paddle, Peterborough:  Archival and History Committee of   Smith Township, 1987.

  • Jennings, John, Hodgins, Bruce an Small, Doreen (eds)The Canoe in Canadian Cultures. Toronto: National Heritage/National History Inc., 1999.

  • Kirkpatrick, George and Rouse, Julie (eds) The Peterborough Review. Vol I, Number One, "In the Garden", 1994.

  • Kirkpatrick, George and Rouse, Julie (eds) Thlle Peterborough Review under water, Vol, 1, Number four, 1995.

  • Lavery, Mary and Doug, Up the Burleigh Road: Beyond the Boulders, Publisher Trent Valley Authority, ,2006, for the Burleigh Road Historical Society, Peterborough.

  • Knox, Gregory H., Bellvidere, Fond Reflections of a Stoney Lake Hotel, Crowe's Landing., Woodview, Gregory and Elizabeth Knox, 1987.

  • Mallory, Enid, Countrysie Kawartha, Peterborough: Q, Kawartha Living on these Lakes. Peterborough:  Peterborough Publishing< 1991.

  • Martin, Norma, Milne, Catherine and McGillis, Donna, Gore's Landing and the Rice Lake Plains, Bewdley Ont: Clay Publ. Ltd . 1nci986. 

  • Mayer, Phil,  Poulton & Assoc. Inc.:  An Archeological Overview of the Quackenbush Provincial Park, unpublished report.

  • Minty, Leonard, The Juniper Boy, a Memoir, 2014, Published by Trillium Antiquarium Books, Peterborough.

  • Moodie, Susanna, Roughing it in the Bush, Toronto, Bell and Cockburn, 1913.

  • Need, Thomas, Six Years in the Bush, Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London, 1838.

  • Nickels, Nick, Master Canoe Builder, Homestead Studios, Woodview. 1985.

  • Nickels, Nick, Indian River Mills, Lakevield: Paddle Press, 1975.

  • Norwood Centennial Book Committee, Norwood Then and Now, Pub. by Village of Norwood, Norwood. 1978.

  • Pammett, Howard, "The Steamboat Era on the Trent - Otonabee Waterway;  1830-1950" Ontario HistoryLVI(1964)  2: 67-103.

  • Peterborough Canoe Co. Ltd. Letter to G.M. Douglas specif. for Lake Erie Pound Net Boat and engine, Oct. 23, 1922. Peterborough Canoes., Peterborough: Peterborough Canoe Co. Ltd., 1929 Reprint Roger MacGregor 1995.

  • Peterborough: Peterborough County Natural History Summary of 1998.  Annual Report. Peterborough:  Peterborough Field Naturalist et al, 1999. 

  • Peterborough, Kawartha's Nature.  Compiled by the Peterborough Field Naturalists.  Toronto: Stoddart, 1992.

  • Peterman, Michael and Ballstatdt, Carl (eds) Forest and other Gleanings, The Fugitive Writings of Catharine Parr Traill. Ottawa University of Ottawa, 1994.

  • Schama, Simon, Landscape and Memory, New York: Alfred A. c Knoff, 1995.     

  • Solway, Kenneth, The Story of the Chestnut Canoe. Halifax: Nimbus Publ. Ltd. 1997.

  • Spectre, Peter, Different Waterfronts, A Wooden Boat Reader, Gardiner, Maine:  Tilbury House, 1989.

  • Speltz, Robert, " A Real Runaboat Review of Canoes"Unpublished manuscript, 1991.

  • Stengil, Marc K., "The Diffusionists Have Landed", Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 2000, 35-46.

  • Stephenson, Gerald F." John Stephenson and the famous.  "Peterborough Canoes." Occasional Paper 8, Peterborough: Peterborough Historical Society, 1987.

  • Stoney Lake Cottagers' Association, Stoney Lake YearBook 1906 Stoney Lake Cottagers ' Association. 1906.

  • Tatley, Richad, Steamboating on the Trent-Severn, Belleville:  Mika Publ. Co., 1978.

  • Theberge,Clifford and Elaine, At the Edge of the Shield, Peterborough: Smith Township Historical Committee, 1982.

  • Tilden, Fay and Woodcock Kathy, History of the Burleigh Falls Metis Settlement, Peterborough: Ontario Metis and Non-Status Indian Association.  (Kawartha branch),        1978.

  • Tozer. Ron and Strickland, Dan, Pictorial History of Algonquin Park, Toronto:  Friends of Algonquin Park, 1986.

  • Traill, Catharine Parr, The Backwoods of Canada, Toronto:  McClelland and Stewart 1989,

  • Traill, Catharine Parr, Studies of Plant Life in Canada, Ottawa:  A.S. Woodburn 1885.

  • Turner, Larry, (annot.) A Boy's Cottage Diary, 1904, Ottawa:  Petherwin Heritage; 1996.

  • Verhurst, Dirk and Greenway, Walter, Peterborough Folklore, and Folklife .Vol.1, Peterborough: Peterborough County Board of Education , n.d.

  • Vidakovich, Steve, Column, Where to Go, Stony Lake", Ontario Out-of-Doors, April, 1984, 27-35.

  • Waugh, F.W. Field Notes, 1916, Canadian Museum of Civilization #4

  • Weaver, Emily P. The Counties in Ontario, Toronto:  Bell & Cockburn, MCMXIII.

  • Wilcox, Helen Rutherford, Chemong Park Story, Peterborough:  Archival and History Committee Smith Township, 1986

  • Wright, Eric. A Question of Murder, Collins, Toronto. 1988. 

  • Young, Aileen,  I Hear a Boat a-Whistlin".  My Stoney Lake Memories, privately published, 1997.

  • Young, Aileen, Yesteryear at Young's Point. 3rd ed.   Peterborough: privately published., 1997