Boy's Cottage Diary, 1904

Fred Dickinson's diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century."e;The stories we hand down, the diaries we preserve become the fabric of our social history. Young Fred Dickinson's 1904 account of tenting and cottaging is a spirited first-hand sketch of a long-neglected part of our heritage. Larry Turner places the diary within social, historic and geographic contexts giving it wide appeal to history buffs of all ages ...."e;- Julie Johnston, award-winning author