OAKVILLE AND THE SIXTEEN The History of an Ontario Port

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Line Drawings By Juliet Chisholm. Type: Book xxiii pp., 521 pp., forest green cloth bdg. with gilt-stamped titling on front board and spine. ".traces the development of a typical Ontario lake port and pictures social life at the various stages of the town's development. The history is complet e, beginning with the earliest settlement and ending at a period in which Oakville has changed its character completely.(Mrs. Mathews) has given an intimate picture of the people, houses, and public buildings of Oakville, and of activities a long ' The Sixteen', the creek which has been so important to its life.She places the development of the village and town in its proper setting in Ontario history, with the result that the reader learns not only about Oakville but about the s oc ia l hi s tory of Southern Ontario over a long period." VG+ (light shelf wear, otherwise a pristoine copy) In a custom-made high gauge mylar DJ.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.