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Nature Rocks & Minerals

The Mazinaw Experience

Bon Echo and Beyond

by (author) John Campbell

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2000
Category
Rocks & Minerals, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896219509
    Publish Date
    Jul 2000
    List Price
    $24.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554883370
    Publish Date
    Jul 2000
    List Price
    $8.99

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Description

The Mazinaw, a place of striking natural beauty, is famous for Bon Echo Rock, a massive sheer cliff, dropping into one of Ontario’s deepest lakes. The Mazinaw Experience traces the presence of human habitation on the shores of the Mazinaw from its earliest beginnings to the present, from the nomadic Aboriginal people who believed the cliff top to be a sacred place and the rugged lumbermen whose entrepreneurial zeal cleared out the mighty pine, to the settlers who struggled to create new lives for their families. Mini-profiles of personalities such as Johnny Bey and Billa Flint, along with stories involving colonization roads, the settlement towns, the mining and the coming of the railway, provide insights into the Mazinaw area of today. The memory of Bon Echo Inn lives on in Bon Echo Park, as does the legacy of Flora MacDonald and her son Merrill Denison.

Today, the Mazinaw area continues to grow in popularity.

About the author

John Campbell is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at New College, Oxford University.

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