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Since 1988, Lynx Images has been creating books and films that help deepen appreciation of this country's history. For several years we have focused on the Great Lakes, travelling extensively by boat, car, and airplane. Our books and films are intended to enliven your explorations, whether by road or by water. Included in this catalogue are other quality Great Lakes books not published by Lynx Images. Thank you for your input and support--revenue goes directly toward future history projects.
Alone in the Night:
Lighthouses of Georgian Bay, Manitoulin Island, and the North Channel
By Andrea Gutsche, Barbara Chisholm & Russell Floren
Lynx Images Inc.
300 page book and companion 72 minute video
Traces the evolution of 130 years of lightkeeping by revealing the heroic and the scandalous, the gritty and routine aspects of this remarkable chapter of marine history. The book, featuring over 50 lighthouses, stories, and 400 photographs, is among the most comprehensive written on Great Lakes lighthouses.300 pages with 400 archival images, maps
book and video package $49.95
 How to order To Read excerpts and learn more great facts about Great Lakes lighthouses press Alone
DISASTER GREAT LAKES
Megan Long
Disaster Great Lakes chronicles nearly fifty of the most terrible events to strike people and surrounding communities on the five Great Lakes.
Erratic weather on the Great Lakes has brought down ships from War of 1812 schooners to the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald. On shore, great fires devastated young cities like Chicago and Toronto and cut huge swaths through the forests, leaving thousands dead. Train wrecks, explosions and environmental disasters like the Love Canal have been painful catalysts of change.
In all the stories, the myriad ways people respond in times of crisis reveal the human core in all its complexity. Richly told and illustrated with dramatic archival images, this 148-page book includes a map and a concise list of the worst catastrophes in American and Canadian Great Lakes history.
148 pages with b/w photographs $24.95
Ghosts of the Bay:
The Forgotten History of Georgian Bay
By Andrea Gutsche, Barbara Chisholm & Russell Floren
Lynx Images Inc.
300 page book and companion 92 minute video
Over 16,000 copies sold! Take a journey to Georgian Bay's forgotten past. Visit an eerie world of shipwrecks, abandoned boom towns and missions. These worn monuments emerge with their tales of adventure, scandal and folklore, revealing the lively and often brutal experiences of those who dared to make a life on these shores.Highlights over 140 sites, with archival photographs and 50 maps.
book and video package $49.95
book $24.95 and video $29.95
How to order To Read excerpts and learn intreguing stories about Georgian Bay press Ghosts
Ghosts of the Great Lakes: More Than Mere Legend
By Megan Long
IThe Great Lakes have a colorful past that spans hundreds of years, stretches over thousands of miles and sometimes crosses into the spirit world. Ghosts of the Great Lakes takes readers from the far eastern shores of Lake Ontario to western Lake Superior, revealing haunting and strange tales. These whispers from the other side, however, are based in history and fact. One lighthouse site hides the bones of a murdered keeper. Rapping sounds in a family home mark the beginning of the Spiritualist movement in North America. A bride has a premonition that her honeymoon ride will end in death... and soon after, the steamer she was on vanishes. Repeated sightings of ghost ships in the mist. Can these strange phenomena be attributed to the imagination? How can multiple sightings be explained away as mere tricks of light and fog? Read these historical accounts of the Great Lakes' most fascinating ghost stories and judge for yourself. Where does fact end and folklore begin?
ISBN 1-894073-31-2
6 x 9, 176 pages, $24.95
GREAT LAKES DIVING GUIDE
By Cris Kohl
This comprehensive book is a must have for any diver and nautical-history enthusiast. Covering the five Great Lakes, and Georgian Bay, this volume includes photographs and detailed information about each shipwreck including history, depth, location and level of difficulty. 416 pages with over 200 images, maps and drawings
$29.95
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Know Your Ships 2005:
Guide to the Boats & Boatwatching on the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway
By Roger Le Fievre
This annual "bible of boat watching" offers complete information about the freighters, tankers, tugs, barges, and other vessels sailing the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. Also included: 10 pages of colourful stack and flag markings of Great Lakes, Seaway, and international fleets, vessel histories. With dozens of superb colour photographs of Great Lakes vessels with illustrations
144 pages, colour photographs, $22.95
Mysterious Islands:Forgotten
Tales of the Great Lakes
Andrea Gutsche, Cindy Bisaillon
300-page book & 72-minute video
Lynx Images Inc.
An island ruled by a king who declared it his own country, an island used as a hideout by a notorious pirate, an island mined by pre-historic copper miners... these are only a few of the stories in this remarkable collection. The book and film, Mysterious Islands, is a fascinating historical journey to islands in the vast basin of the five Great Lakes. Standing removed and alone, islands have been central to some of the most important, outrageous and tragic events in Great Lakes history, from a decisive and bloody naval battle in the War of 1812, to Prohibition rumrunning, to harrowing tales of shipwreck and rescue. The waves of time have left many islands behind, but remnants of the past still mark their shores- burial grounds, grand hotels, abandoned quarries, lighthouses, strategic forts, and even a castle. Indispensable for boaters, this guide book is brimming with stories of island names, shipwrecks, abandonded places, folklore and intrigue.
296pp. photos & illus. sc 1999
book and video package $49.95
book $24.95 and video $29.95
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The North Channel and St. Mary's River:
A Guide to the History
By Andrea Gutsche and Barbara Chisholm
Lynx Images Inc.
For centuries, Lake Huron's North Channel and St. Mary's River have provided an essential passageway, first for native peoples and then to successive waves of Europeans. The footprints of Indians, explorers, missionaries and fur traders, soldiers and settlers, entrepreneurs and scoundrels are ever visible. Brimming with stories and folklore, the book includes over
125 sites, maps and archival photographs. 330 pages $24.95
Northern Lights: Lighthouses of Canada
By David Baird
Lynx Images Inc.
For the very first time, Northern Lights, draws together the story of Canadian lighthouses. The book is filled with Dr. David Baird's striking colour and black and white photographs of the lights from coast to coast, including the Great Lakes. The accompanying text traces the fascinating evolution of the Canadian lights, Canadian technological developments, and fascinating information and stories about the lights and the people who kept them.
257 page book/200 lighthouses/300 b & w and colour photographs - $29.95
Outlaws of the Lakes
Bootlegging and Smuggling From Colonial Times to the Prohibition
By Edward Butts
Since the earliest colonial times, the Great Lakes and the Upper St. Lawrence River have been a smugglers' highway. They have borne silent witness to trafficking of almost every commodity governments could tax or ban. Some of the smugglers were hailed as heroes by the public, but they also corrupted government officials, terrorized honest citizens and committed acts of ruthless violence.
A French bootlegger founded the city of Detroit in the eighteenth century. Two hundred years later, American and Canadian bootleggers supplied booze to the criminal empires of Al Capone, Dion O'Banion and the Purple Gang during the doomed experiment called Prohibition. Some became rich; others died with their boots on. Some were cut down by Coast Guard bullets; more were gunned down by rival bootleggers. All of them were brazen and ingenious (Rocco Perri had a front as a macaroni salesman) and they stopped at nothing. Whether they operated in defiance of unjust laws or out of pure greed, the smugglers and bootleggers of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River carved a legacy of violence and adventure, one that has had a profound impact upon the histories of Canada and the United States.
ISBN 1-894073-48-7
6" x 9", 272 pages
$24.95
Pirates and Outlaws of Canada
1610 to 1932
By Edward Butts
For over three hundred years, lawlessness kept pace with the march of European civilization across the land now called Canada. While some made their way with the plough and the trapline, others sought their fortune with a cutlass or a pistol.
Pirates & Outlaws takes the reader to a time when pirates prowled the Atlantic coast and outlaws roamed the western and far northern frontiers. It is the story of their adventures, their crimes, their contributions, and for some, their bloody, untimely deaths. From the notorious pirate Peter Easton, still celebrated in Newfoundland, to the homicidal "Mad Trapper" of the Yukon, each tale is a thrilling and suspenseful adventure. Pirates & Outlaws--the first popular history of piracy and brigandry on Canada's soil and in her waters--gives a unique perspective on the dark side of Canadian history.
ISBN 1-894073-35-5
6" x 9", 250 pages
$24.95
Secrets of the Lakes: Stories From the History of Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching
By Monica Frim
Secrets of the Lakes is a collection of stories and photographs that traces the fascinating history of Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. A popular destination for cottagers and pleasure-seekers today, these lakes were once part of the essential inland waterway that opened up the region and the North American interior to waves of Indians and explorers, fur traders and soldiers, and settlers and entrepreneurs who carved out an existence from the wilderness. This evolution from strategic waterway to tranquil pleasure ground is explored by visiting places where the past still resonates--historic communities, shipwrecks, abandoned sites and stately manors. The book includes over 100 stories and 170 archival photographs from places around Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching to enliven any journey on or around these beautiful waters.
ISBN 1-894073-08-8
272 pages, 6"x9"
$24.95
Shipwreck Tales of the Great Lakes
By Cris Kohl
Could a curious piece wood be from the fabled ship Griffon which went missing on its maiden voyage in 1679? What made a popular Detroit excursion steamer cruise into history? How did the captain of the schooner George A. Marsh keep his shipwreck survival a secret for ten years? What were the tragic results when an exciting "Mystery Ship" schooner was raised from the depth of the Great Lakes in 1969? How did a shipwreck cause Chicago to grow by nearly 200 acres? How did the Australian convict ship Success become a Great Lakes wreck? Read these and more tales of murder, mystery and mayhem. 288 pages, 6 x 9, ISBN 0-9679976-4-X $29.95
Superior: Under the Shadow of the Gods
Andrea Gutsche, Barbara Chisholm and Russell Floren
Lynx Images Inc.
320-page book & 72-minute video
This breathtaking film and book reveals Lake Superior as a world belonging to the gods. The human experience here is one of challenge- our attempts to exploit this place have left ghost towns and other fading marks on these wild and rugged shores. Rare archival footage and photographs, voices from the past, stunning cinematography and a haunting score enrich these compelling sagas. The book includes over 200 sites, maps and archival photographs.
96pp.photos & illus.sc 1999
book and video package $49.95
book $24.95 and video $29.95
TITANIC: The Great Lakes Connections
By Cris Kohl
Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious passenger ship in the world sailed on her maiden voyage in April of 1912. But, her Atlanitc crossing was never completed: Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with enormous loss of life. The worst maritime disaster the world had ever known.
More than 300 of the 1,500 passengers were ultimately bound for the Great Lakes region including the province of Ontario. Some of these passengers were en route home; others were hoping to settle in a new land. Some survived the world's most famous sinking; others died without reaching their goals. This book tells their stories.
220 pages, over 100 black & white photographs, $24.95
TREACHEROUS WATERS: KINGSTON'S SHIPWRECKS
By Cris Kohl
history including the construction of the largest warships ever employed on the Great Lakes and the tragic loss of the schooner, George A Marsh, which sank just off Kingston in a violent summer storm in 1917, taking 12 of the 14 people on board and how the tragedy continues. These and scores of other stories are told inside the covers of this book.248 pages with colour photographs of shipwrecks and 100 archival photographs, many maps and drawings - $21.95
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