Explore the remnants of vanished villages across Ontario's cottage country.Crumbling foundations lost in the forest, weathered buildings leaning wearily with age, cracked tombstones jutting from the ground - all serve as haunting reminders of once thriving villages that have since been abandoned. Each of these locales has a distinct story to tell, stories that until now were confined to fading memories and grainy photographs.From the northern shores of Georgian Bay to the eastern reaches of the Kawarthas, Ontario's cottage country is littered with vanished villages, including settlement-era farm communities, railway whistle-stops, and logging hamlets. Within these pages, readers will venture into Ontario's past to learn how these communities lived and died and to meet the people who invested their hopes and dreams in them. Dozens of photographs, many historical and never before published, bring these ghost towns back to life.Join Andrew Hind in exploring over a dozen villages across the districts of Parry Sound and Nipissing, Muskoka, and the Haliburton Highlands.

Introduction Southern Cottage Country1 Hindon Hill (Township of Minden Hills, Haliburton County) 2 Germania (Town of Bracebridge, Muskoka District) 3 Uffington (Town of Bracebridge, Muskoka District)4 Falkenburg Junction (Macauley Township, Muskoka District)Central Cottage Country5 Swords (Seguin Township, Parry Sound District)6 Seguin Falls (Seguin Township, Parry Sound District)7 Whitehall (Township of McMurrich Monteith, Parry Sound District)8 Royston (Ryerson Township, Parry Sound District)9 Spence (Spence Township, Parry Sound District)Northern Cottage Country10 Byng Inlet (Wallbridge Township, Parry Sound District)11 Kiosk (Algonquin Park)12 Desaulniers (West Nipissing, Nipissing District)13 Milberta (Kerns Township, Temiskaming District)AcknowledgementsSourcesAbout the Author Index About the Author