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2007 Fred Landon Award

Beautiful Barrie, The City and Its People: An Illustrated History of Barrie, Ontario received the Ontario Historical Society's Fred Landon Award at the Society's annual meeting held Saturday Jun 23rd, 2007 in St. Catharines.

The Fred Landon Award honours the best book on regional history published in the Province of Ontario over the past three years.

Kurt H. Schick - designer, Su Murdoch - author Rayner McCullough - public relations liaison,  B.E.S. Rudachyk - author

Barrie historian's book on street names nominated for award.

    The award is offered for the best book on regional history in Ontario published in the past three years. It will be presented at the Ontario Historical Society annual meeting in Willowdale on May 3.

    'Streetwise in Barrie' was published last December by Rudachyk's company, DBS. Heritage Consulting & Communications. "We are delighted to be considered for such a prestigious award," said Rudachyk. "It's a bit of a cliche, but it is wonderful just to be considered. " 

    In a review recently published in the Ontario Historical Society Bulletin, Streetwise was described as "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." 

    Streetwise is Rudachyk's second book. His first, 'Simcoe County Book of Days,' was published in 1998. Both are available at North County Books. 

    Currently, the author has teamed up with Su Murdoch and designer Kurt Harding Schick to write 'Beautiful Barrie: The City and Its People - An Illustrated History.' It is scheduled for release in mid-2003 - just in time to mark Barrie's 150th birthday. (Barrie Advance, Friday December 13, 2002, pg. 19)

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