Small Town Ontario: 50 Historic Main Streets to Explore

The main streets of Ontario’s small towns provide a living, visual history of the settlement and development of the province. Small Town Ontario is a visual exploration of the most fascinating and important historic towns and the vibrant communities that live there today.

Historian Ron Brown is uniquely qualified to write this guide. The author of best-selling books Backroads of Ontario, Top 170 Unusual Things to See in Ontario, Ontario’s Ghost Town Heritage and Niagara: Your Guide to the Falls and Beyond, Brown has spent decades visiting, researching and writing every corner of the province he calls home.

In Small Town Ontario, Brown takes you on a guided tour of the buildings, monuments, parks, bridges and roadways that comprise the best-preserved heritage streetscapes, including:

Almonte
Bayfield
Cobourg
Elora
Kleinburg
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Port Stanley
St. Mary’s
Unionville
And many, many more!
Fully illustrated with the author’s photographs, Small Town Ontario is an ideal book for anyone who wants to visit the most attractive remaining historic places and to learn more about Ontario’s unique and lasting heritage.