Ontario
History (Click
for Review)
Brian Osborne,
review of Beautiful Barrie: The City and Its People: An Illustrated History of
Barrie, Ontario, by Su Murdoch, B.E.S. Rudachyk and Kurt H. Schick, Ontario
History, 98, No. 1 (Spring 2006): 129-31.
On
The Bay
Beautiful Barrie
: The City and Its People.
By Su Murdoch
& B.E.
S. Rudachyk
.
Design and
photography by Kurt H. Schick.
DBS Heritage
Consulting & Communications.
440 pages.
Illustrations. $65.00 hardbound.
This
history of Barrie
is indeed an exceptional volume – lavishly illustrated, meticulously
researched,
amazingly comprehensive, beautifully designed and delightfully readable. No
local history we have encountered is more intriguing in its design. A banner
along the bottom of each page chronicles the history year by year, often month
by month and sometimes day by day. The text has many headings incorporated into
each chapter with boxed period quotations or brief sidebar stories. Splendid
archival images, some panoramic, are followed by modern colour photos, many
aerial.
Describing and picturing the book’s corporate and individual sponsors required
some 25 pages! There are also source notes, a full bibliography and a name
index. Stunning!
“From the
Bookshelf”
Chris and Pat
Raible, Editors
OHS Bulletin,
February 2006, p. 7.
The Streets where they live
Streetwise in Barrie: An Historical Guide to Barrie Streetnames.
By B.E.S. Rudachyk.
DBS Heritage Consulting &
Communications.
233 pages Illustrations. $45.00 softbound.
Local history at its most local - a catalogue of all (through
1999) of Barrie's streets, avenues, roads, crescents, drives, courts,
boulevards, squares, circles, glens, hollows, trails, places, gates, terraces,
lanes, ways, and highways. Some 760 streets are each geographically described
(with cross references if the names have changed) and historically detailed
(only 23 are listed as "not yet determined.") In every case full
reference details are carefully cited. Even closed and deleted streets are
included. This work is probably the most complete study of a Canadian city's
street names ever compiled. Truly a labour of love by a local historian working,
as it were, from the ground up.
Chris and Pat Raible, "From the Bookshelf," OHS Bulletin (Issue 135, July
2002), p. 7.
"Barrie author!
Streetwise in Barrie: a historical guide to Barrie's street names.
Dr. Bradley Rudachyk has written a comprehensive and attractive history
complete with maps and illustrations. This 325-page volume is the product of
countless hours of research."
"The Reader's Couch," Barrie Public Library Newsletter Fall 2002
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