Ron W Shaw
Author
Publisher
Global Heritage Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
vi, 118 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cheese Stakes explores the nineteenth century story of the Lanark County Mammoth Cheese in the context of its place in a long tradition of oversized cheeses, and examines the remarkable, never to be repeated, achievement it represented in the annals of the cheesemakers' art. On April 25, 1893, the largest cheddar cheese ever manufactured anywhere in the world arrived on the grounds of the World's Columbian Exhibition at Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois....
Author
Publisher
Global Heritage Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations, facsimilies, map, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the American Civil War in 1865 two of the Confederate States' most prominent families, the Mazycks and Manigaults, fled into exile at London, Ontario, Canada, where their homes soon became the terminus of a new sort of 'Underground Railroad'. Ku Klux Klan fugitives, wanted for murder and mayhem, arrived at their doors seeking sanctuary under the British flag. Welcomed by their countrymen and the people of London, these hunted men found...