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Born in Perth: Making Their Mark (biographies) [2020]

William Lee's Family History - The Lee Family's Arrival in the Perth Military Settlement, 1816 [2016]

Liberal in Opinion and Broad in his Views, James Shaw (1798-1878) [2016]

Lumber Baron - Peter McLaren [2016]

Livingstones of Lanark [2016]

Hart's Bookstore & Almanac [2019]

Streetcar Pioneer: George Ephraim Patterson (1838-1927) [2017]

E.J. Robertson - Man of Fleet Street [2017]

Knight of the Realm [2017]

Merchant House of A. Meighen & Brothers [2018]

Avocational Archaeologist: Dr. Thomas William Beeman (1859-1920) [2019]

PUBLISHER, WARRIOR, MERCHANT, POLITICIAN - Thomas Scott [2016]

Canada First - Charles Adam Mair [2016]

Aristocrats in the Wilderness - Jean-Louis Viscomte de Chalus [2016]

Bohemian - John Graham Haggart (1836-1913) [2019]

Snow Birds - Waddell Brothers [2021]

SOLDIER & ANGLICAN PRIEST - Reverend Michael Harris [2015]

A Story of the Great War - The Scott Family of McDonald Corners [2018]

Traffic Control - Evan John McIlraith (1886-1978) [2018]

Surveyor Joseph Miller Oliver Cromwell (1819-1897) [2018]

Photographic Artist - Rosetta Ernestine Watson-Carr [2018]

RCMP Deputy Commissioner, James Wilson Spalding [2019]

In No Way Disappointed: Mormon Pioneers Arza & Barnabas Adams [2019]

A Life Well Spent - Flora Madeline Shaw R.N. [2020]

American Ambulance Hospital Paris - Isobel Mary Watts [2020]

Boer War Nurse - Mary Ellen 'Minnie' Affleck [2020]

Croix de Guerre - Lillian Gibson Spence [2020]

In Flanders Fields [2020]

No.1 Canadian General Hospital - Edith Alberta Gallagher [2020]

Lanark County's Pioneer Woman Doctor - Dr. Agnes Douglas Craine [2020]

Unfortunate Child - John A. McLaren [2020]

The Nimrod Antarctic Expedition - Dr. W. A. Rupert Michell [2020]

The Cohens of Budvieciai, Maberly and Montreal [2021]

The Gentle Giant, John Lee (1842-1919) [2021]

Reverend Robert Campbell (1835-1921) [2021]

Captain Jack - John Weston ‘Jack’ Walker (1924-2009) [2022]

Captain Hooper's Farmhouse - The Battle of Kitchener’s Wood Ypres, April 1915 [2022]

Moose Factory Doctor [2022]

The Barefoot Ferry Boy: Malcolm Cameron 1808-1878 [2022]

Miss Dominion of Canada: Veronica Marie ‘Bonny’ Brady [2022]

Startling and Tumultuous - Burton Campbell [2022]

Genius in the Granary - William Sydney Porter, aka O. Henry [2022]

 A Life Of Vicissitudes - Frances Jessop - The Cranky Schoolmistress of Brock Street [2023]

 County Sheriffs [2023]

 Fugitive Missionary - Muriel Smith-Livesay [2024]

 THE GOULD INHERITANCE - Matthew Gould (1764-1852) [2024]

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Perth, the Capital of the District of Dalhousie; from the N-East bank of the River Tay - painting by Thomas Burrowes, 1828, Archives of Ontario, I0002141

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