Going to Town
Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.
With 300 photos and 11 maps.
A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges the near universal vice of real-estate voyeurism, and beckons even the most reluctant to physical exercise.
Katherine Ashenburg is our knowledgeable and charmingly opinionated companion on walking tours of ten small (populations 1000 to 27,000) Ontario communities that provide a rewarding variety of domestic and public architecture in a walkable compass. Each tour begins with a brief historical sketch of the town, then, with the aid of a detailed map,…
$3.99
November 13, 2012KATHERINE ASHENBURG is the author of several books and many magazine and newspaper articles. She has written for The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and Toronto Life, among other publications. Her nonfiction books include The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die, and The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, which has been published in twelve countries and six languages. In former incarnations she was a producer at CBC Radio and was The Globe and Mail's Arts and Books editor. In 2018, she published her acclaimed debut novel, Sofie and Cecilia, and in 2021 she followed that work with the delightfully tart novel Her Turn.
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