Contents -- Illustrations -- Of Canoes and Pines and Rock- Bound Gardens -- Permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Writing a History of Place -- What Word of This Curious Country? Surveying the Historical Landscape -- A Region of Importance: Industry and Land Use -- A Vivid Reminder of a Vanished Era: Imagining Natives and History in a Terre Sauvage -- Rocks and Reefs: The Culture of an Inland Sea -- Our Dear North Country: Developing a Sense of Place -- Some Proper Rule: Managing and Protecting Georgian Bay -- Listening to the Bay -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.