A Good Town Grew Here provides a richly detailed, well illustrated chronology of the struggles and growth of Bracebridge up to the First World War.
A Good Town Continues ,this follow-on chronicle of Bracebridge history, compiled by the town’s 125th Anniversary Book Committee, picks up where Robert J. Boyer’s history left off, with year-by-year accounts of local events from 1915 to 1999.
Bracebridge around 1930 author Robert Boyer remembers Bracebridge at a time when he was a youth and Muskoka’s capital town was in transition with automobiles replacing the horse-and-buggy and pioneer era industries fading or closing with the Depression.