The book features Niagara peninsula history of Canada’s First Nations, early African-American refugees, pioneer life and Goodwillie genealogy. It outlines events and activities connected to the 1870s Goodwillie farmhouse on Quaker Road, Welland Ontario Canada and the operation of one of Niagara peninsula’s first fruit factories and vineyards. Day-to-day incidents around the turn of the 20th century from the farm (now a Welland suburb) and a fruit preservation factory are written with simplicity and appeal. Many original photographs accompany the text. The Goodwillie line is traced to pre 1600 stone ruins in Fife, Scotland and reference is made to Loyalist land allotments in New Carlisle, Gaspé Québec, the Goodwillie Museum in Barnet Vermont with its Underground Railroad connection, and Ontario family contacts and settlement around Wainfleet, Norwich, Ridgeville, Port Colborne, Long Beach, Niagara Falls, Welland, Thorold, Cambridge and Georgetown.