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Undressed Toronto

Author : Dale Barbour
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887559514
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Undressed Toronto written by Dale Barbour and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Undressed Toronto

Author : Dale Barbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887559471
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Undressed Toronto written by Dale Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body.

University of Toronto Studies

Author : University of Toronto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book University of Toronto Studies written by University of Toronto and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

University of Toronto Studies

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book University of Toronto Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lives of Lake Ontario

Author : Daniel Macfarlane
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228023041
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lives of Lake Ontario by : Daniel Macfarlane

Download or read book The Lives of Lake Ontario written by Daniel Macfarlane and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd¬ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane details the lake’s relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that have occupied its shores. He examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this resource: through dams and canals, drinking water and sewage, trash and pollution, fish and foreign species, industry and manufacturing, urbanization and infrastructure, population growth and biodiversity loss. Serving as both bridge and buffer between the two countries, Lake Ontario came to host Canada’s largest megalopolis. Yet its transborder exploitation exacted a tremendous ecological cost, leading people to abandon the lake. Innovative regulations in the later twentieth century, such as the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements, have partially improved Lake Ontario’s health. Despite signs that communities are reengaging with Lake Ontario, it remains the most degraded of the Great Lakes, with new and old problems alike exacerbated by climate change. The Lives of Lake Ontario demonstrates that this lake is both remarkably resilient and uniquely vulnerable.

Tables of the Trade and Navigation of the Province of Canada

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Tables of the Trade and Navigation of the Province of Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Province of Canada

Author : Canada. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Province of Canada written by Canada. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stroll, updated edition

Author : Shawn Micallef
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770568077
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Stroll, updated edition written by Shawn Micallef and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING" The updated edition of a Toronto favorite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walkable What is the 'Toronto look'? Glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings often mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts whose architectural look can only be defined by telling the story of how it came together and how it works, today, as an imperfect machine. Shawn Micallef has been examining Toronto’s streetscapes for decades. His psychogeographic reportages situate Toronto's buildings and streets in living, breathing detail, and tell us about the people who use them; the ways, intended or otherwise, that they are being used; and how they are evolving. Stroll celebrates Toronto's details – some subtle, others grand – at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario. "When I moved to Toronto in 2011, Stroll was the first book I added to my library and course reading lists. My students and I get lost in the PATH, sneak into lobbies, and visit the archives with this book as our guide. Micallef’s friendly voice invites us to slow down and notice not just a few landmark buildings but the city’s built fabric as a whole. This updated version offers our collective memory a much-needed affectionate yet critical view of recent changes to the city." – Erica Allen-Kim, Author of Building Little Saigon "Stroll is a delightful and eccentric guidebook, full of clever writing, amusing stories and charming maps that will make you want to strap on your walking shoes and head into the streets of Toronto." – Carol Off, Author/Broadcaster "Shawn Micallef is the unofficial mayor of Toronto, the genial ambassador the city needs and deserves. As he strolls Toronto’s broad avenues and its little streets, he finds hidden pockets of delight – and weirdness, too. Join him and fall in love with the city again." – Liz Renzetti, author of Bury the Lead "Shawn Micallef looks at the city in a way we all should more often – he sees it as a living book that is alive with stories just waiting to be told to the attentive observer. In Stroll, he gives us an introduction to just how interesting and surprisingly dramatic those stories are, and how exciting our city is when we hear them." – David Crombie, former mayor of Toronto "A smart and intimate guide to the city that makes you feel like an insider from start to finish." – Douglas Coupland This new edition updates things in the city that have changed and includes several new walks.

What Nudism Exposes

Author : Mary-Ann Shantz
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077486723X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book What Nudism Exposes written by Mary-Ann Shantz and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Nudism Exposes offers an original perspective on postwar Canada by situating the nudist movement within the broader social and cultural context and considering how nudist clubs navigated changing times. As the nudist movement took root in Canada after the Second World War, its members advanced the idea that going nude and looking at the bodies of others satisfied natural curiosity, loosened the hold of social taboos, and encouraged mental health. By the 1970s, nudists increasingly emphasized the pleasurable aspects of their practice. Mary-Ann Shantz contends that throughout the postwar decades, nudists sought social approval as they engaged with contemporary concerns about childrearing, sexuality, public nudity, and the natural environment. This perceptive, eminently readable book explains the perspectives of the movement while questioning its assumptions. What nudism ultimately exposes is how the body figures at the intersection of nature and culture, the individual and the social, the private and the public.

Metromorphoses

Author : John Reibetanz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 022802093X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Metromorphoses written by John Reibetanz and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he first hiked the Don Valley trails / all he heard was river as he strode / beside its glitter of smashing glass Grounded in the local and immediate – from Toronto’s rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers – Metromorphoses explores some of the radical changes that have taken place in the city during the course of its history. The collection’s poems focus, in roughly chronological order, on the city’s inhabitants and the changing relationships between people and place, from the original Indigenous presence, through the immigrants of the nineteenth century and the Depression and war survivors of the twentieth century, to the twenty-first century’s setbacks and affirmations. We encounter characters such as Symphony Pete, who whistled classical music while hiking Don Valley trails, Henry “Box” Brown, who escaped from southern slavery in a packing crate, or the exhausted anonymous newsboy a photographer caught fast asleep next to his stack of newspapers on a flight of stone steps. We zoom in like time-lapse photography on the changes that a single site has experienced, from wood-frame cottages to foundry to synagogue to furniture store to parking lot to the new provincial courthouse. These poems bring the reader closer to the impulses that drove the art of the Mississaugas, the escape from slavery or famine of new settlers, or the social awareness of a Dr Charles Hastings or a Raymond Moriyama. Far from Eliot’s “unreal city,” Metromorphoses takes us into the heart of the real Toronto, alive and ever-changing.

Canada Lumberman and Woodworker

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Canada Lumberman and Woodworker written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Park Cruising

Author : Marcus McCann
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487011792
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Park Cruising written by Marcus McCann and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his work opposing a police sting in a suburban park, McCann’s ruminations go beyond targeted enforcement and police indifference to violence to examine cruising as a type of world-building. The result is a series of insightful and poetic walks through history, law, literature, and popular representations of cruising in search of the social value of sex. What McCann ultimately reveals is a world of connection, care, and unexpected lessons about the value of pleasure.

Coach

Author : Rosie DiManno
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385676387
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Coach written by Rosie DiManno and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Burns was one of the great NHL coaches. He worked with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils, and seemed always to enjoy instant success. He capped his extraordinary career by coaching the New Jersey Devils to a Stanley Cup victory in 2003. Cancer--his third bout--finally claimed him in 2010, aged 58. Rosie DiManno, who knew Burns well, has written a revealing, exhilarating and heartfelt account of his life: his childhood as a fatherless, solitary male surrounded by many women, his years as a police officer, his glorious coaching career and his long and characteristically valiant ending. Coach is both the first major biography of Burns and one that, with its revelations, personal insights and riveting prose, is--like the man himself--sure to be both controversial and hard to beat. Rosie DiManno knew, liked and admired Burns, and in the writing of this book has interviewed many, many people from every stage of his life. She is not blind to his less endearing qualities, but seeks to explain them. DiManno reveals a man of contradictions--gruff and crude, bullying and sentimental, and easily wounded. She shows, moreover, a man of hockey. The Burns who rode motorcycles, dressed like a cowboy, and sweet-talked the ladies was, says DiManno, a self-creation. His one indisputable, true talent was for coaching hockey. He was a pure coach. DiManno tells a compelling story and helps us to understand a complex man, one who gave little of himself to the public and yet whose funeral was a spectacle. How did that happen? Who was Pat Burns? Rosie DiManno, who witnessed much of the story, has the answers.

Industrial Canada

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Industrial Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canadian Gazette and Export Trader

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Gazette and Export Trader written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meaningful Pasts

Author : Russell Johnston
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487528752
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Meaningful Pasts written by Russell Johnston and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Meaningful Pasts, Russell Johnston and Michael Ripmeester explore two strands of identity-making among residents of the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada. First, they describe the region’s official narratives, most of which celebrate the achievements of white settlers with a mix of storytelling, rituals, and monuments. Despite their presence in local lore and landmarks, these official narratives did not resonate with the nearly one thousand residents who participated in five surveys conducted over eleven years. Instead, participants drew on contemporary people, places, and events. Second, the authors explore the emergence of Niagara’s wine industry as a heritage narrative. The book shares how the survey participants embraced the industry as a local identifier and indicates how the industry’s efforts have rekindled the residents’ interest in agriculture as a significant element of regional heritage and local identities. Revealing how the profiles of local narratives and commemorations become entwined with social, cultural, economic, and political power, Meaningful Pasts illuminates the fact that local narratives retain their relevance only if residents find them meaningful in their day-to-day lives.

Undressed Toronto

Author : Dale Ernest Barbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Undressed Toronto written by Dale Ernest Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bathing transformed between 1850 and 1935 as Toronto moved from a vernacular system, epitomized by the swimming hole, to the heterosocial public beach. I've coined the term vernacular bathing to describe a system that was predominantly male, nude, and relied on a shared embodied knowledge of found spaces within the urban environment. I treat the beach as a competing system, rather than merely a space. It emerged in the nineteenth century in North Atlantic cultural circuits and relied on the bathing suit to cloak and contain the body and surveillance to ensure the moral and physical security of male and female bathers. While its implementation seems inevitable today, the rules and expectations of the beach were negotiated and challenged by men and women in the nineteenth century. Importing the beach rewrote the recreational geography of the Toronto; popular vernacular spaces in the Don River could never be made to fit the image and expectations of the beach, while Sunnyside, on the city's western shoreline, was reimagined by the Toronto Harbour Commission to fit the model of a twentieth century beach and amusement space. This project upends assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. Rather than attempting to drive vernacular bathers out of urban space, the middle class viewed the bathing boy through the lens of anti-modernism and turned them into pre-industrial folk figures. That gloss of nostalgia preserved and romanticized vernacular spaces in the city even as the order and structure of the beach was emerging. Puncturing the nostalgic gloss of the swimming hole allows us to see the city with new eyes. We can over-turn declensionist narratives that imagine the city's rivers and waterfront as too polluted or too industrial for recreational use. When we follow the bathers we find they often nestled within the most industrialized sections of the waterfront and used that industrialization to cloak their presence. Seen with new eyes the industrial waterfront becomes a hybrid world where recreation and labour, industry and nature, blended and where the undressed male body, rather than being hidden, was part of the urban experience.