Boxed Cards arranged with a seasonal theme.

Don’t feel guilty ordering with the “big” monster, Chapters.

Nearly 40% or more is hard to beat.

But you can still support Ashlie’s if you start your journey with the links in this post! Thank you.

Here are the Globe and Mail bestsellers.

Here are the New York Times bestsellers.

This story was written by a woman who grew up on a farm in North Hastings County in the 1940’s and 1950’s. She relates stories from the years to the best of her memory. She has also included stories of her life up to the present day.

This is Donna’s first book. After reading several books by other authors, relating to the old days, she just felt she had to record her stories.    Many of those stories reminded her of her childhood. The more she read the more memories came flooding back to her!

It became very important to her to put these stories into print so her kids, grandkids and great grandkids would have a record. As the world is changing so fast, many of the stores will sound  almost foreign to the younger kids.    Although her stories may sound like she had a hard upbringing, she does not see it that way!    There was not a lot of money but she had a happy childhood and a loving upbringing!        She has many great memories and is happy she was raised on a farm! [Only $19.95. THANK YOU for supporting local business]

DURING WORLD WAR I the town of Trenton, Ontario, became the site of the Largest explosives factory in Canada. Although the British Chemical Company plant was Located on the outskirts of town behind some small hills, residents nonetheless were apprehensive about the close proximity of millions of pounds of T.N.T., gunpowder, and toxic chemicals. Anxiety was heightened in 1917 when a French munitions ship, carrying T.N.T. manufactured at Trenton, exploded in Halifax Harbour, levelling a large section of the east coast city.

It was only a matter of time, many feared , before disaster visited Trenton too.  They were right.  Nobody in town would forget Thanksgiving weekend, 1918.

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On May 23, 1947, the musicians in the Commodores Orchestra opened Club Commodore, their newly winterized big band nightclub on the fairgrounds in Belleville, Ontario, a city of roughly 17,000 souls.  The musicians had created their own co-operative, and had each invested the modern equivalent of $25,000 into what wass by today’s standards a million-dollar operation.  Incredibly, they had done the hard physical labour themselves.

How did this collection of small-city accountants. mechanics, insurance men, clerks and carpenters do it?  The nine-decade story of the Commodores Orchestra, told by Andy Sparling after two decades of collecting information and photographs, is as intriguing and unique as it is improbable, no matter where you live.

“A town is not a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul”—English author Neil Gaiman.