This book is pretty obscure. So obscure, in fact, I couldn’t find an image of it anywhere online—the image is a photograph of my copy.

I found this volume by accident while looking through a stack of books at Willow Books in Uxbridge. It’s volume 21 in a curriculum series from 1971. I bought it because one of the case studies is my hometown: Bancroft.

I found a lot of fascinating demographic data along with a few pictures of my hometown. The other main study in the book is on Chesley, Ontario.

This book isn’t for most people, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Langman, R. C. Patterns of Settlement in Southern Ontario: Three Studies. McClelland and Stewart, 1971. Curriculum Resource Books Series 21.