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Lost Toronto

Author : Doug Taylor
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911595032
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Lost Toronto written by Doug Taylor and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Toronto is the latest in the series from Pavilion Books that traces the cherished places in a city that time, progress and fashion swept aside before the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker's ball. As well as celebrating forgotten architectural treasures, Lost Toronto looks at buildings that have changed use, vanished under a wave of new construction or been drastically transformed.Beautiful archival photographs and informative text allows the reader to take a nostalgic journey back in time to visit some of the lost treasures that the city let slip through its grasp. Organised chronologically, starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, the book features much-loved Toronto institutions that have been consigned to history. Losses include: King’s College, Holland House, Hotel Hanlan, St. Patrick’s Market, The Grand Opera House, Metropolitan Methodist Church, Old Union Station, St. Andrew’s Market, Yonge Street Arcade, Sunnyside Beach Amusement Park, Shea’s Hippodrome, S. S. Cayuga, High Park Mineral Baths, Tivoli Theatre, Riverdale Zoo, Odeon Carlton, Cyclorama on Front Street, Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade, Colonial Tavern, Sam the Record Man, The World’s Biggest Book Store.

Lost Toronto

Author : William Dendy
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780771026164
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Lost Toronto written by William Dendy and published by McClelland & Stewart Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Toronto's Lost Villages

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459746597
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Toronto's Lost Villages written by Ron Brown and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the vestiges of the hamlets and villages that have been swallowed up by Toronto’s relentless growth. Over the course of more than two centuries, Toronto has ballooned from a muddy collection of huts on a swampy waterfront to Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Amid (and sometimes underneath) this urban agglomeration are the remains of many small communities that once dotted the region now known as Toronto and the GTA. Before European settlers arrived, Indigenous Peoples established villages on the shore of Lake Ontario. With the arrival of the English, a host of farm hamlets, tollgate stopovers, mill towns, and, later, railway and cottage communities sprang up. Vestiges of some are still preserved, while others have disappeared forever. Some are remembered, though many have been forgotten. In Toronto’s Lost Villages, all of their stories are brought back to life.

Lost Breweries of Toronto

Author : Jordan St. John
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625851995
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Lost Breweries of Toronto written by Jordan St. John and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted beer expert and writer Jordan St. John shows readers the rich history of Toronto's heritage breweries, many of which still exist today. Explore the once-prominent breweries of nineteenth-century Toronto. Brewers including William Helliwell, John Doel, Eugene O'Keefe, Lothar Reinhardt, Enoch Turner, and Joseph Bloore influenced the history of the city and the development of a dominant twentieth-century brewing industry in Ontario. Step inside the lost landmarks that first brought intoxicating brews to the masses in Toronto. Jordan St. John delves into the lost buildings, people and history behind Toronto's early breweries, with detailed historic images, stories both personal and industrial, and even reconstructed nineteenth-century brewing recipes.

The Toronto Book of the Dead

Author : Adam Bunch
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145973808X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Toronto Book of the Dead written by Adam Bunch and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk... With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist. Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.

Lost on Division

Author : Jean-François Godbout
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487524757
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Lost on Division written by Jean-François Godbout and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to other countries, Canada's Parliament shows a high level of party unity when it comes to legislative voting. This was not always the case, however. One hundred years ago, this sort of party discipline was not as evident, leading scholars to wonder what explains the growing influence of political parties in the Canadian Parliament. In Lost on Division, Jean-François Godbout analyses more than two million individual votes recorded in the House of Commons and the Senate since Confederation, demonstrating that the increase in partisanship is linked to changes in the content of the legislative agenda, itself a product of more restrictive parliamentary rules instituted after 1900. These rules reduced the independence of private members, polarized voting along partisan lines, and undermined Parliament's ability to represent distinct regional interests, resulting in – among other things – the rise of third parties. Bridging the scholarship on party politics, legislatures, and elections, Lost on Division builds a powerful case for bringing institutions back into our understanding of how party systems change. It represents a significant contribution to legislative studies, the political development literature, and the comparative study of parliaments.

Unbuilt Toronto 2

Author : Mark Osbaldeston
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459700937
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Unbuilt Toronto 2 written by Mark Osbaldeston and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the scrapyard statue planned for University Avenue, the flapper-era "CN Tower" that led to a decade of litigation, and an electric light-rail transit network proposed in 1915. Winner of the 2012 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit Quill & Quire cited Unbuilt Toronto as a book filled with "well-researched, often gripping tales of grand plans," while Canadian Architect said that it is "an impressively researched exploration of never-realized architectural and master-planning projects intended for the city." Now Unbuilt Toronto 2 provides an all-new, fascinating return to the "Toronto that might have been." Discover the scrapyard statue planned for University Avenue, the flapper-era "CN Tower" that led to a decade of litigation, and an electric light-rail transit network proposed in 1915. What would Toronto look like today if it had hosted the Olympics in 1996 or 1976? And what was the downtown expressway that Frederick Gardiner really wanted? With over 150 photographs, maps, and illustrations, Unbuilt Toronto 2 tracks the origins and fates of some of the city’s most interesting planning, transit, and architectural "what-ifs."

Unbuilt Toronto

Author : Mark Osbaldeston
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550028359
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Unbuilt Toronto written by Mark Osbaldeston and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbuilt Toronto explores the failed architectural dreams of Toronto. Delving into unfulfilled & largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, roads & highways, transit systems, & sports & recreation venues, the authors outline such ambitious but ultimately unrealised schemes as St. Alban's Cathedral, the "Newark 2011" subway system, & a 1911 city plan that would have resulted in a Paris-by-the-Lake. Readers will lament the loss of some projects (such as the planned construction boom for the Olympics), be thankful for the loss of others ("City Hall was supposed to look like that?!?"), & marvel at the downtown that could have been (with underground roads & walkways in the sky). With an eye on the future as well as the past, the author takes stock of Toronto's status quo in 2008 & offers some bold predictions on the city's architectural future.

Toronto's Poor

Author : Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771132825
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Toronto's Poor written by Bryan D. Palmer and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. Written by a historian of the working class and a poor people’s activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto’s poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities.

The Lost Expert

Author : Hal Niedzviecki
Publisher : Cormorant Books
ISBN 13 : 1770866353
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Expert written by Hal Niedzviecki and published by Cormorant Books. This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chris, an unambitious young waiter, walks through the park on his way home from work, he stumbles onto the set of a Hollywood film — and is promptly mistaken for the missing lead actor. Corralled into filming a scene for The Lost Expert — director Bryant Reed’s last-ditch effort to restore his reputation — Chris assumes the identity of international action star Thomson Holmes, and disconnects from his real life. He falls deeply into his newfound identity as Holmes and as his character in the film, a struggling young man who has the ability to find lost people and things. Tensions mount as Chris gradually learns of the real Thomson Holmes’ scandals and accusations of sexual misconduct. Meanwhile, the real Thomson Holmes has disappeared and Chris has reason to fear he’ll be next. As he tries to figure out what happened to the actor, he grapples with his role as imposter and whether he can — or even should — extricate himself from reinvention.

Toronto of Old

Author : Henry Scadding
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459713567
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Toronto of Old written by Henry Scadding and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1987-01-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1873, Henry Scadding, former rector of Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity, wrote the definitive history of early Toronto. His detailed portrait of the streets, customs and prominent citizens is a goldmine of sights and insights into a Toronto long-since disappeared. Toronto of Old was first reprinted in 1966 and has been out of print since 1973. The later version, edited by Frederick H. Armstrong is shorter than the original, with Scadding's references to outside cities and characters shortened or omitted to give the book a sharper focus on Toronto. This second edition is an updated and corected version of the 1966 edition. The best history of Toronto ever written, "Toronto of Old" by Henry Scadding, has just been edited by Professor F.H. Armstrong of the University of Western Ontario ... Armstrong's editing, with his written reasons for a series of cuts, has made it a tighter and more informative book than the original. - Gordon Sinclair in Let's Be Personal

Lost in the Valley of Death

Author : Harley Rustad
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062965980
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Valley of Death written by Harley Rustad and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By patient accumulation of anecdote and detail, Rustad evolves Shetler’s story into something much more human, and humanly tragic, into a layered inquisition and a reportorial force....suffice it to say Rustad has done what the best storytellers do: tried to track the story to its last twig and then stepped aside." —New York Times Book Review In the vein of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India—one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley. For centuries, India has enthralled westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker. In his early thirties Justin Alexander Shetler, quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey: across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal, in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters, while also documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his adventures. But the ever restless explorer was driven to pursue ever greater challenges, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest—his own hero’s journey. In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas steeped in mystical tradition yet shrouded in darkness and danger. There, he spent weeks studying under the guidance of a sadhu, an Indian holy man, living and meditating in a cave. At the end of August, accompanied by the sadhu, he set off on a “spiritual journey” to a holy lake—a journey from which he would never return. Lost in the Valley of Death is about one man’s search to find himself, in a country where for many westerners the path to spiritual enlightenment can prove fraught, even treacherous. But it is also a story about all of us and the ways, sometimes extreme, we seek fulfillment in life. Lost in the Valley of Death includes 16 pages of color photographs.

The Toronto Book of Love

Author : Adam Bunch
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459746694
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Toronto Book of Love written by Adam Bunch and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Toronto’s history through tantalizing true tales of romance, marriage, and lust. Toronto’s past is filled with passion and heartache. The Toronto Book of Love brings the history of the city to life with fascinating true tales of romance, marriage, and lust: from the scandalous love affairs of the city’s early settlers to the prime minister’s wife partying with rock stars on her anniversary; from ancient First Nations wedding ceremonies to a pastor wearing a bulletproof vest to perform one of Canada’s first same-sex marriage ceremonies. Home to adulterous movie stars, faithful rebels, and heartbroken spies, Toronto has been shaped by crushes, jealousies, and flirtations. The Toronto Book of Love explores the evolution of the city from a remote colonial outpost to a booming modern metropolis through the stories of those who have fallen in love among its ravines, church spires, and skyscrapers.

Gael Force

Author : Mervin Daub
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773515097
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Gael Force written by Mervin Daub and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football at Queen's University has one of the richest, and certainly one of the longest, histories of any sport in Canada. The Golden Gaels have been a presence in Canadian football at both the amateur and professional level since 1882. Gael Force traces this history, chronicling the team's ups and downs and integrating them within the history of the university, the country, and the sport in general.

The Year of the Bruins

Author : NHL
Publisher : Fenn-M&S
ISBN 13 : 0771051018
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Year of the Bruins written by NHL and published by Fenn-M&S. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in Stanley Cup® history, a team has won game seven in three series en route to winning the Stanley Cup. The Boston Bruins, champions for the first time since 1972, beat Montreal in seven in the opening round, Tampa Bay in seven to get to the Stanley Cup Final, and then Vancouver, 4–0, in the final game of the Stanley Cup Final to win hockey’s most prized trophy. The team was led by the goaltending of the Conn Smythe Trophy winner Tim Thomas, timely goals from Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand, great leadership on the blue-line from captain Zdeno Chara, and tremendous inspiration from Nathan Horton. The Year of the Bruinsis a celebration of Boston’s incredible 2010–11 season, from training camp through the rigours of the eighty-two-game regular season, and then four rounds of challenging Stanley Cup Playoffs. Lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred colour photographs, this is a must-have keepsake for any fan of the Bruins or, indeed, the history of the Stanley Cup.

Toronto's Visual Legacy

Author : Steve MacKinnon
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1552774376
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Toronto's Visual Legacy written by Steve MacKinnon and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five fascinating images that offer a 360º panorama of the Toronto's downtown in 1856-57 mark the beginning of the use of photographs to document Toronto's growth, its achievements, its great civic works, and its citizenry. Since 1856, the City of Toronto has been commissioning photographs to document and to promote it. This book, published to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the city's incorporation, brings together more than 100 of these images, selected by city archivists from their collection of hundreds of thousands. Waterworks, roads, and bridges, many of them familiar landmarks today, are seen as they are being built. The Bloor Street Viaduct, the R. C. Harris water filtration plant, and the old and new city halls are all celebrated in these images. Toronto's citizens are also captured in these photographs, going about their affairs on the street, as proud workers, or as spectators at public events. At times, in an effort to raise public concern about poverty and poor housing conditions, city photographers have documented conditions for residents in low-income neighbourhoods. Some of these photographs are included here, in an impressive series of poignant images. In the past fifty years, as Toronto has grown into the cosmopolitan metropolis it is now, city photographers have recorded the construction of key projects like the Yonge Street subway, the new City Hall and the CN Tower while documenting major public events and celebrations. This book offers a visual overview of Toronto's history and at the same time documents attitudes and values expressed by City officials, from 1857 to the present.

Patterns of the Past

Author : Roger Hall
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459713575
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of the Past written by Roger Hall and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-07-25 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its objectives, for a century, have been to promote and develop the study of Ontario’s past. The purpose of this book is both to commemorate and to carry on that worthy tradition. Introduced by Ian Wilson, Archivist of Ontario, and edited by Roger Hall, William Westfall and Laurel Sefton MacDowell, this distinctive volume is a landmark not only in the Society’s history but in the prince’s historiography. Eighteen scholars have pooled their talents to fashion a volume of fresh interpretive essays that chronicle and analyze the whole scope of Ontario’s rich and varied past. New light is thrown on our understanding of early native peoples, rural life in Upper Canada, the opening of the North, the impact of railways, and the growth of businesses and institutions. And there is much social study here too, especially of the new roles for women in industrial society, of working class experience, of ethnic groups, and of children in our society’s past. As well, there are innovative treatments of the conservation movement, of science’s role in provincial society, and of the relationship between society and culture in small towns. Anyone with an interest in the history of Canada’s most populous province will find much in this comprehensive collection.