Ron Brown "Nobody Knows Ontario like Ron Brown"
Ron Brown has been writing books about ghost towns, railways, and other unusual things in Ontario since 1978, and has written more than 20.
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From Queenston to Kingston: Hidden History on the Lake Ontario Shore
Coming 2010
The Lake Erie Shore: Ontario's Forgotten South Coast
The Lake Erie shoreline has born witness to some of Ontario's earliest history
Published 2009 by the Dundurn Group
192 pp with colour illustrations
$24.99 - Buy from Amazon
Published 2009 by the Dundurn Group
192 pp with colour illustrations
$24.99 - Buy from Amazon
The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
An illustrated history of role of the train station in Canada's
history
Updated 3rd edition published 2008 by the Dundurn Group; originally published by Broadview Press
185 pp with colour and B&W illustrations
$24.95 - Buy from Amazon
Updated 3rd edition published 2008 by the Dundurn Group; originally published by Broadview Press
185 pp with colour and B&W illustrations
$24.95 - Buy from Amazon
Ontario's Ghost Town Heritage
A photographic visit to Ontario's many ghost town sites
Updated 3rd edition published 2007 by Boston Mills Press
208 pp with colour and B&W illustrations
$24.95 - Buy from Amazon
Updated 3rd edition published 2007 by Boston Mills Press
208 pp with colour and B&W illustrations
$24.95 - Buy from Amazon
Top 100 Unusual Things to See in Ontario
This book reveals landscape surprises right in our own
backyards
New edition published 2007 by Boston Mills Press
208 pp with 100 colour illustrations
$24.95 - Buy from Amazon
New edition published 2007 by Boston Mills Press
208 pp with 100 colour illustrations
$24.95 - Buy from Amazon
Behind Bars
Inside Ontario's heritage jails
Published 2006 by the Dundurn Group
160 pp with B&W illustrations
$22.95 - Buy from Amazon
Published 2006 by the Dundurn Group
160 pp with B&W illustrations
$22.95 - Buy from Amazon
Downtown Ontario
A look at Ontario's most unusual main streets
Published 2003 by Polar Bear Press
206 pp, illustrated
Out of print
Published 2003 by Polar Bear Press
206 pp, illustrated
Out of print
The Last Stop: Ontario's Heritage Railway Stations
A guide to Ontario's federally designated heritage railway
stations
Published 2002 by Polar Bear Press
192 pp, illustrated
Out of print
Published 2002 by Polar Bear Press
192 pp, illustrated
Out of print
Castles and Kings, Ontario's Mansions and the Men and Women Who
Built Them
Published 2001 by Polar Bear Press
Disappearing Ontario
Published 1999 by Polar Bear Press
Ontario's Secret Landscapes
Published 1999 by Boston Mills
Press
Ghost Towns of Ontario, Field Guide, Vol 1 and Vol 2
Published 1997/1999 by Polar Bear
Press
Toronto's Lost Villages
Published 1997 by Polar Bear Press
Ontario's Vanished Villages
Published 1996 by Polar Bear Press
50 Even More Unusual Things to See in Ontario
Published 1991 by Boston Mills
Press
50 Unusual things to See in Ontario
Published 1989 by Boston Mills
Press
Ghost Towns of Canada
Published 1988 by Cannonbooks
Ontario Ghost Towns and Scenic Backroads Atlas
Published 1985 by Cannonbooks
Backroads of Ontario
Originally published 1984 by Hurtig
Publishers; subsequent editions by McClelland and
Stewart and Boston Mills Press
Ghost Towns of Ontario, Vol 2
Published 1983 by Cannonbooks
Ghost Towns of Ontario
Published 1979 by Stagecoach Press; later
republished as Volume 1 by Cannonbooks