The Antique Mystique Guide to Southern Ontario

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian studies at
Concordia University, Japan Foundation Fellow 1991-92, and the author of
Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Home and As Though Life Mattered:
Leo Kennedy’s Story.

This guide to 50 Southern Ontario antique dealers provides locations,
telephone numbers, and highway directions to specific stores, their
owners, and their specialties. The dealers were chosen for inclusion by
a consensus of their peers.

McCleary, who has written a weekly column in The Woodbridge Advertiser
(under the same title as this book) since 1989, describes the activity
of searching for antiques as a pastime that “got out of hand.” Her
specialty is pre-Confederation furniture from Ontario and Quebec, but
the text ranges widely from furniture to books and “smalls.”
McCleary’s enthusiasm is catching and her brief text pleasant to
browse.

The Antique Mystique is a useful companion for a weekend hunt. Its
scores of photographs (the majority in color) make it an attractive book
for both beginners and knowledgeable collectors.