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Historic Sites in Scarborough Heights
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Scarboro Heights Record
The Lowland Clearances
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Scottish Diaspora Tapestry
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JAMES MCCOWAN MEMORIAL SOCIAL HISTORY
INITIATIVE
A Not-For-Profit, Non-Charitable Organization Dedicated
To Placing the Scottish Experience
Within the Wider Context of the Community
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Neigh the Front:
Exploring Scarboro Heights: 142 pages, 20 photographs, 3 maps |
$17.00 |
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Fairs and Frolics:
Scottish Communities at Work and Play: 56 pgs, Foreword by Mike Filey |
$7.00 |
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To Sustene the Personis:
The Agricultural Revolution: 48 pgs, 2 maps, glossary |
$6.00 |
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When the Ground Fails:
An Economic Watershed: 86 pgs, 11 illustr., glossary, 2 maps |
$9.00 |
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Out of stock |
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Bill and Nancy McCowan
Fortieth Anniversary Album: 48 pgs |
$8.00 |
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Curling: A
Scottish Sport in Scarboro: 4 pgs |
$1.00 |
| 8 |
James McCowan Family from 1833, by
Margaret Carr: 96 pgs, 180 photographs, illustrated 3-ring binder (An
affiliated publication) |
$57.50 |
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The McCowans of Cumnock, Lesmahagow and
Scarborough: 29 pgs |
$6.00 |
| 10 |
The McCowans' Who's Who for Nineteen Hundred
and Ninety Two: 32 pgs |
$5.00 |
| 11 |
St. Andrew's 150 Years Ago:
12 pgs |
$2.50 |
| 12 |
10 McCowan Society Greeting Cards &
envelopes: Christmas or blank inside (please circle) |
$6.00 |
| 13 |
Street
Railways: Toronto, 1861-1930: 32 pgs, 7 photos (Toronto Maps Project: The McCowan
Society assisted financially) |
$9.00 |
| 14 |
Miles Map of Scarborough, 1878
($0.50 with
purchase of Neigh the Front: Exploring Scarborough Heights) |
$2.00 |
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"The Lowland
Clearances": Three-part BBC Radio Scotland Series (CD) |
$7.00 |
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"The Lowland
Clearances": The Book, by Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell -- more of the
data that was gathered for the Three-part BBC Radio Scotland Series -- Including
interviews with descendants of Scarborough's Scottish pioneer families (Tuckwell Press) |
$29.00 |
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"The Lowland
Clearances" (Tuckwell Press) plus To Sustene the
Personis: The Agricultural Revolution (Special Price) |
$31.00 |
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The
Scots of Scarborough, V1
#1: 36 pages, large format, over 50 illustrations (Includes The
Scottish Diaspora Tapestry; I Remember by Jack McCowan; Tools for Working
With Trees; The Rae Family of Lesmahagow and Scarborough; Thomas Telford,
Eskdale Stonemason and Engineer)
PDF e-file version
$4.00 |
$7.00 |
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The Scots of
Scarborough -- Thinking
Like Telford, V1 #2: 36 pages, large format, over 30
illustrations (Includes The Menai Bridge Model and the Scottish Diaspora
Tapestry Scarborough Exhibition; Some Innovative Scarborough Scots; Scots
Contributions to Agricultural Innovations by Jenny Bruce. This second
issue of Volume 1 commemorates 2016 -- Scotland's Year of Innovation,
Architecture and Design.
PDF e-file version
$4.00 |
$7.00
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The Scots of
Scarborough -- The McCowan Farm in the 1920s by Robert P.
McCowan, V1 #3: 36 pages, large format, over 50
illustrations
PDF e-file version
$4.00 |
$7.00 |
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The Scots of
Scarborough -- The Purdie Family of Scarborough With Robert P.
McCowan, V1 #4: 36 pages, large format, over 50
illustrations
PDF e-file version
$4.00 |
$7.00 |
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We're Not
Here to Put in Time: Ramblings on a Scottish-Canadian Work Ethic,
With William David "Bill" McCowan, 154 pages, perfect bound,
over 100 illustrations (also released as Volume 2 of The Scots of
Scarborough). This special price includes copies of “To Sustene the
Personis” and “Fairs and Frolics” --- $35.00
PDF e-file version of only "We're Not Here to Put in Time" ---
$13.00 |
$35.00
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The Scots of
Scarborough -- At the Home of the Bride's Parents: A Century of
St. Andrew's Weddings, V3 #3: 32 pages, large format, 50
illustrations
PDF e-file version
$4.00 |
$7.00 |
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Well Taught the Value
of a Shilling -- Numer
acy, Financial
Literacy, Earning an Honest Living & Related Ramblings With George
Edward McCowan (80 pages, large
format, over 50
illustrations)
This
is Vol 3 #1&2 of The Scots of
Scarborough
PDF e-file version
$10.00
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$18.00 |
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The
Hog-Score in the Great Rink of Time: Ramblings on Curling -- Book
1: The Outdoor Natural Ice Era in Scotland, 1500-1900, With John Rae
McCowan (28 May 1919 - 5 June 2021)
(142 pages, perfect bound, large format, over 50 illustrations) This
is Vol 5 of The Scots of
Scarborough
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$20.00 |
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The
Hog-Score in the Great Rink of Time: Ramblings on Curling --
Book 2: 150 Years of Men's Curling in Canada, 1830-1980, With John Rae
McCowan (28 May 1919 - 5 June 2021)
A Modest Contribution to the Celebration of 150 Years of the Ontario
Curling Association, 1874-2024
(130 pages, perfect bound, large format, over 60 illustrations) This
is Vol 4 of The Scots of
Scarborough
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$20.00 |
Prices include postage & handling in Canada. If outside Canada, please
email or phone us to get the additional postage costs.
Discounts
available to retailers in volumes of ten or more per publication. Discount to schools is
20% regardless of volumes. Please make cheques payable to The James McCowan Memorial
Social History Initiative.
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you wish to pay by e-transfer, please phone D.B. McCowan at 416-447-4895.
As a service to those who purchase one of the McCowan Initiative publications (other than Curling),
we will reveal 5 original sources for historical passages of interest that appear on this web site.
Please note that the Scarboro Heights Record and the James McCowan
Memorial Social History Initiative will not give your personal information to any other
party without your express permission
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