Beautiful Ontario Towns

Barbara B. Aitken is a public services librarian in the Douglas Library
at Queen’s University, a board certified genealogical record specialist, and a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists.

Lavishly illustrated with over 100 full-color photographs, Beautiful
Ontario Towns looks at the past and present of 10 small towns and
villages in southwestern Ontario. The towns include Creemore, which
features a microbrewery and wonderful area scenery; Dunnville on the
Grand River on Lake Erie; Elora, a mill town on the Grand River near the
Elora Gorge; Fergus, a little Scotland; Meaford, a harbor town on
Georgian Bay; Neustadt, home to a microbrewery and water springs;
Paisley, a village of the Saugeen River, Teeswater River, and Willow
Creek and bridges; St. Jacobs, with its Mennonite heritage; St. Marys,
with its celebrated stone buildings; and Thornbury on Nottawasaga Bay,
which offers wonderful fishing and boating.

This is an excellent guidebook if you are planning a day trip or a
weekend jaunt to a charming and picturesque locale. The statistical
profiles of the towns provide good background. The author, a professor
emeritus of geography at the University of Guelph, is uniquely qualified
to give a lively overview of these communities.