About the author

Steven Manders has researched and photographed about 60 ghost railways and tramways of eastern Ontario.   He has also paddled many of the historic native canoe and logging routes.   These books are about those old railways, water ways, mines and logging of over 100 years ago. 

Men build a large causeway for the Canadian Northern Railway in 1912 near Chaffey's Locks.

Learn how these huge causeways were built using hand labour over 100 years ago.

Tall ships in Bath Ontario.

Tall ships operated for 100 years after the first steam ships appeared and 50 years after the first railways. Learn why.

A Cobourg & Peterborough Railway engine at the Blairton iron mine near Marmora.

Iron ore was fundamental to financing early railways, yet our rails had to be imported from Britain.

The K&P Railway crosses the Madawaska River at Calabogie.

This was the biggest bridge on the K&P, but the causeway and rock cut just south of it was the real challenge.