The Orillia Spirit - 2nd Edition by Randy Richmond (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Something about Orillia, immortalized in Stephen Leacock's classic <i>Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town</i>, has always inspired its people to reach for their dreams. The results have been comic, tragic, and heroic, as shown in this colourful history of Orillia.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>2017 Orillia Museum of Art & History Award, Historical Publications and/or Research -- Winner</i><br/> <b>The history of Orillia, told through the stories of its people, bringing to life the community's heritage and significance.<br/><br/> The Orillia Spirit: </b> <ul><li>Muddling through Canada's first, and hilarious, experiment with daylight savings time, Mayor "Daylight Bill" Frost had it.</li> <li>Creating his own money and dreaming a drainage ditch would become a tourist attraction, Mayor Ben Johnson had it. </li> <li>Taking his town's electric company by force, Mayor J.B. Tudhope had it. </li> <li>Inventing early forms of medicare and the first RVs, dreaming of universities and folk festivals, battling for decades over liquor and rinks, ordinary people had it.</li></ul> Something about the place immortalized in Stephen Leacock's classic <i>Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town</i> has always inspired its people to reach for their dreams. Turn-of-the-twentieth-century leaders coined the phrase "the Orillia Spirit" to describe their drive to make the town a social, moral, and economic leader of Canada. The results have been comic, tragic, and heroic, as shown in this colourful history of Orillia.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>How locally-generated power changed our community from a sleepy lumber village to a thriving industrial centre is an engrossing read -- as entertaining as it is enlightening -- in Randy Richmond's <i>The Orillia Spirit</i>.-- "Packet & Times"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Randy Richmond is an award-winning journalist living in London, Ontario. He is the former editor of <i>The Packet & Times</i> in Orillia, where he wrote the first <i>Orillia Spirit</i>, married, and had three children. He is the coauthor of <i>Colossal Canadian Failures</i> 1 and 2, also published by Dundurn Press.
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