Dean Robinson Books

Dean Robinson is a Stratford-Perth Ontario historian and author of 23 books, and author/editor of another eight. Shown in the list below are books that can be purchased at the Stratford-Perth Archives 519-271-0531 ext. 259 (SPA), at Fanfarebooks  (FF ) or found at the Stratford Public Library (SPL).   

• 1982 Howie Morenz: Hockey’s First Superstar  SPA, FF, SPL

• 1985 Lucky Lott: Hell Driver SPL

• 1986 Mitchell, A Reflection SPL

• 1987 Seaforth, Beginnings SPL

• 1989 Railway Stratford SPL

• 1991 Reflections, the Stratford Agricultural Society 1841-1991 SPL

• 1991 Y Stratford, A History 1858-1991 SPL

• 1992 Service Above Self, Rotary Club of Stratford 1922-1992  SPA, SPL

• 1996 Would the Stag Line Please Move Back! Mitchell District HS SPA, SPL

• 1997 From Walker’s folly to Fabulous, 75 Years of Oakwood 1922- 1997

• 1999 Picture Mitchell 1857-1997  SPA, SPL

• 2000 Glory Bound! The Stratford Cullitons 1975-2000 SPL

• 2003 For your health, Stratford General Hospital 1975-2000 SPL

• 2003 Overdue, Stratford Library Services 1856-2004  SPA, FF, SPL

• 2004 By the Old Mill Stream, Carlingford, 1856-2004 SPL

• 2004 Fair Legacy, Mitchell and District Agricultural Society 1854-2004  SPA, SPL

• 2011 Hardly Normal, The Stratford Normal School and Stratford Teachers College 1908 -1973 SPL

• 2012 Railway Stratford Revisited SPA, FF SPL

• 2015 42 Wellington, the music and the memories  SPA, FF, SPL

• 2016 Howie Morenz Hockey’s First Superstar (2nd ed. 2016) SPA, FF 

• 2019 Not the Last Waltz and other Stratford stories  SPA, FF

• 2022 A Century of Service, the Rotary Club of Stratford 1922-2022  This book is available only through the Rotary Club: Contact: Charlene Gordon at: edgo@cyg.net. Canada: 519.273.5126

• 2022 From Walker's folly to 100, Oakwood Park 1922-2022 This book is available through the Oakwood Park Association, Inc. Contact: Lois Wallis at 519-238-2588.

Author/Editor

• 1992 Conestoga College Twenty‑Five Years of Education That Works   1967‑1992 SPL

• 1995 From Scotch Broth and Irish Stew, A History of Hibbert Township  1846‑1996 SPL  

• 1998 The Hills of Home, North Easthope Township 1827‑1997  SPL

• 1999 Echoes of Ellice, Ellice Township 1827-1997               

• 2000 Water Under the Bridges, Fullarton Township 1824-1997 SPL

• 2002 Memories of Downie, Downie Township SPL

• 2008 Historically Bound, Embro and West Zorra 1820-2007

Photographer

1990 Daytripper, 50 Trips In and Around Southwestern Ontario SL  N/A

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Standalones:  

• The day the Brown Bomber came to town  December 2024

• Howie and the Habs light it up in Stratford  January  2025

• Derailment of Stratford’s locomotive repair shops   February 2025

• The document presented by Stratford CNR union reps to PM John Diefenbaker in Ottawa  May 21, 1958  February 2025