Author: John Ross Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto
Author: John Ross Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Landmarks of Toronto; A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York from 1792 Until 1833, and of Toronto from 1834 to 1898
Author: J. Ross Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375801478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375801478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto
Author: John Ross Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Remembering the Don
Author: Charles Sauriol
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780920474228
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A tribute to the days when there were Mississauga Indians camped along a Don River teeming with salmon, red-coated militia regiments, and courageous pioneers.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780920474228
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A tribute to the days when there were Mississauga Indians camped along a Don River teeming with salmon, red-coated militia regiments, and courageous pioneers.
Undressed Toronto
Author: Dale Barbour
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887559514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization in the nineteenth century destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront. Instead, we find that these areas were co-opted and transformed into recreation spaces: often with the acceptance of indulgent city officials. While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing needed to be transformed from the predominantly nude male privilege that it had been in the mid-nineteenth century into an activity that women and men could participate in together. That transformation required negotiating and establishing rules for how people would dress and behave when they bathed and setting aside or creating distinct environments for bathing. Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. It explores anxieties about modernity and masculinity and the weight of nostalgia in public perceptions and municipal regulation of public bathing in five Toronto environments that showcase distinct moments in the transition from vernacular bathing to the public beach: the city’s central waterfront, Toronto Island, the Don River, the Humber River, and Sunnyside Beach on Toronto’s western shoreline.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887559514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization in the nineteenth century destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront. Instead, we find that these areas were co-opted and transformed into recreation spaces: often with the acceptance of indulgent city officials. While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing needed to be transformed from the predominantly nude male privilege that it had been in the mid-nineteenth century into an activity that women and men could participate in together. That transformation required negotiating and establishing rules for how people would dress and behave when they bathed and setting aside or creating distinct environments for bathing. Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. It explores anxieties about modernity and masculinity and the weight of nostalgia in public perceptions and municipal regulation of public bathing in five Toronto environments that showcase distinct moments in the transition from vernacular bathing to the public beach: the city’s central waterfront, Toronto Island, the Don River, the Humber River, and Sunnyside Beach on Toronto’s western shoreline.
The Shacklands
Author: Judi Coburn
Publisher: Sumach Press
ISBN: 9781896764139
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The year is 1908. The Robertson family have left the slums of London, England, for a better life in Canada. Jessie dreams of becoming a teacher and taking part in the exciting events unfolding in the new century. But she must battle the prejudices of those around her, and tragedy soon strikes the family. Jessie finds herself confined to the drudgery of housework and then a factory job. But when the workers decide to strike, Jessie finds both a voice and a vision of a stronger, more confident self.
Publisher: Sumach Press
ISBN: 9781896764139
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The year is 1908. The Robertson family have left the slums of London, England, for a better life in Canada. Jessie dreams of becoming a teacher and taking part in the exciting events unfolding in the new century. But she must battle the prejudices of those around her, and tragedy soon strikes the family. Jessie finds herself confined to the drudgery of housework and then a factory job. But when the workers decide to strike, Jessie finds both a voice and a vision of a stronger, more confident self.
38 Hours to Montreal
Author: Dan Buchanan
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525519883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson is in a hurry. In response to the Rebellion of 1837-38, he has been urgently tasked by his masters in England to modernize and improve the governments in the Canadian colonies. In just three months in Toronto, the governor general has managed to pass all the legislation he wants, but with politics heating up in Quebec and his bosses in England dangling a peerage over his head, now he must get to Montreal as fast as he can to do the same thing there. Enter “The Stagecoach King,” William Weller, who is famous for operating the Royal Mail Line of stages between Toronto and Montreal. Weller utilizes a complex system of stage stops staffed with experienced workers and is confident he can take the governor general to Montreal in under thirty-eight hours. Driving a very unique sleigh, specially modified for this trip, Weller pilots the governor general and his aid-de-camp Captain Thomas Le Marchant over 370 miles of snowy and muddy roads, avoiding dangerous obstacles and constantly moving forward. In a meticulously researched account of this epic trek, author Dan Buchanan brings the reader along on a breathlessly exciting journey that intricately explores Canadian history through the people, places, and buildings that existed along those treacherous roads in 1840.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525519883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson is in a hurry. In response to the Rebellion of 1837-38, he has been urgently tasked by his masters in England to modernize and improve the governments in the Canadian colonies. In just three months in Toronto, the governor general has managed to pass all the legislation he wants, but with politics heating up in Quebec and his bosses in England dangling a peerage over his head, now he must get to Montreal as fast as he can to do the same thing there. Enter “The Stagecoach King,” William Weller, who is famous for operating the Royal Mail Line of stages between Toronto and Montreal. Weller utilizes a complex system of stage stops staffed with experienced workers and is confident he can take the governor general to Montreal in under thirty-eight hours. Driving a very unique sleigh, specially modified for this trip, Weller pilots the governor general and his aid-de-camp Captain Thomas Le Marchant over 370 miles of snowy and muddy roads, avoiding dangerous obstacles and constantly moving forward. In a meticulously researched account of this epic trek, author Dan Buchanan brings the reader along on a breathlessly exciting journey that intricately explores Canadian history through the people, places, and buildings that existed along those treacherous roads in 1840.
Canadian Catalogue of Books
Author: Willet Ricketson Haight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada
Author: Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802034601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802034601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Reclaiming the Don
Author: Jennifer L. Bonnell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442612258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442612258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.