Download or read book A Boy's Cottage Diary, 1904 written by Fred Dickinson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-06-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Dickinson's diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century. "The stories we hand down, the diaries we preserve become the fabric of our social history. Young Fred Dickinson's 1904 account of tenting and cottaging is a spirited first-hand sketch of a long-neglected part of our heritage. Larry Turner places the diary within social, historic and geographic contexts giving it wide appeal to history buffs of all ages ...." - Julie Johnston, award-winning author