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
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
