The First Summer People: The Thousand Islands 1650-1910

by Susan Weston Smith

Shortlisted for the Ottawa Citizen Book Prize for Non-Fiction. This book is full of facts, legends, written and oral histories, and previously unpublished maps and photographs. Includes a comprehensive guide to both the Canadian and the American islands. Why would anyone name an island Deathdealer or Bloodletter? Why does the international boundary between the U.S. and Canada erratically through the islands? Where were the many historic battles fought? Who were the first summer people? Read all about it in this fascinating book.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published August 10, 1993