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The Toronto Book of the Dead

Author : Adam Bunch
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145973808X
Total Pages : 424 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 424 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.

Indigenous Toronto

Author : Denise Bolduc
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770566457
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Toronto written by Denise Bolduc and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and, too often, silenced. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen twelve thousand years of uninterrupted Indigenous presence and nationhood in this region, along with a vibrant culture and history that thrives to this day. With contributions by Indigenous Elders, scholars, journalists, artists, and historians, this unique anthology explores the poles of cultural continuity and settler colonialism that have come to define Toronto as a significant cultural hub and intersection that was also known as a Meeting Place long before European settlers arrived. "This book is a reflection of endurance and a helpful corrective to settler fantasies. It tells a more balanced account of our communities, then and now. It offers the space for us to reclaim our ancestors’ language and legacy, rewriting ourselves back into a landscape from which non Indigenous historians have worked hard to erase us. But we are there in the skyline and throughout the GTA, along the coast and in all directions." -- from the introduction by Hayden King

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.

The Ward

Author : John Lorinc
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770564195
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Ward written by John Lorinc and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others – landed in ‘The Ward’ in the centre of downtown. Deemed a slum, the area was crammed with derelict housing and ‘ethnic’ businesses; it was razed in the 1950s to make way for a grand civic plaza and modern city hall. Archival photos and contributions from a wide variety of voices finally tell the story of this complex neighbourhood and the lessons it offers about immigration and poverty in big cities. Contributors include historians, politicians, architects and descendents of Ward residents on subjects such as playgrounds, tuberculosis, bootlegging and Chinese laundries. With essays by Howard Akler, Denise Balkissoon, Steve Bulger, Jim Burant, Arlene Chan, Alina Chatterjee, Cathy Crowe, Richard Dennis, Ruth Frager, Richard Harris, Gaetan Heroux, Edward Keenan, Bruce Kidd, Mark Kingwell, Jack Lipinsky, John Lorinc, Shawn Micallef, Howard Moscoe, Laurie Monsebraaten, Terry Murray, Ratna Omidvar, Stephen Otto, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Michael Posner, Michael Redhill, Victor Russell, Ellen Scheinberg, Sandra Shaul, Myer Siemiatycki, Mariana Valverde, Thelma Wheatley, Kristyn Wong-Tam and Paul Yee, among others.

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.

Toronto Noir

Author : Janine Armin
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 193335450X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Noir written by Janine Armin and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for Toronto Noir's corrosive expos s. Features brand-new stories by: RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandad, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnet, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill.

Toronto

Author : Allan Levine
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1771620439
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Toronto written by Allan Levine and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same eye for character, anecdote and circumstance that made Peter Ackroyd’s London and Colin Jones’s Paris so successful, Levine’s captivating prose integrates the sights, sounds and feel of Toronto with a broad historical perspective, linking the city’s present with its past through themes such as politics, transportation, public health, ethnic diversity and sports. Toronto invites readers to discover the city’s lively spirit over four centuries and to wander purposefully through the city’s many unique neighborhoods, where they can encounter the striking and peculiar characters who have inhabited them: the powerful and powerless, the entrepreneurs and the entertainers, and the moral and the corrupt, all of whom have contributed to Toronto’s collective identity.

The Annex

Author : Jack Batten
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550464016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Annex written by Jack Batten and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toronto's Annex is a unique urban success story. Illustrated with 128 black and white photos this book shows how the area retained its distinctive character from its 19th century roots through to being one of the city's most chic areas today.

Toronto Book of Everything

Author : Nate Hendley
Publisher : Book of Everything
ISBN 13 : 9780978478407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Book of Everything written by Nate Hendley and published by Book of Everything. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hogtown to capital city and Leafs Nation, from cold wet winters to desperately humid summers, from Blackberry-addicted Bay Street financiers to profiles of Ed Mirvish, Glenn Gould, David Cronenberg and Rush, no book is more comprehensive than the Toronto Book of Everything. No book is more fun! Well-known Torontonians weigh in on what they love about their city. Linda Leatherdale reveals her top five places to power lunch; Chef Jamie Kennedy shares five ways Toronto inspires his menus; Paul Godfrey tells us who the top Toronto powerbrokers are; John Sewell points out five Toronto buildings not to miss; and Kevin O'Leary shares his uniquely Toronto innovations. From Bay Street slang and the Great Toronto Fire to immigrant city and Pride Toronto, it's all here! Whether you are a native Torontonian or visiting for the first time, there is simply no more complete book about Toronto. If you love Toronto (even just a little bit), you'll love the Toronto Book of Everything.

The University of Toronto

Author : Martin L. Friedland
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442615362
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The University of Toronto written by Martin L. Friedland and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who attended the University or who is interested in the growth of Canada's intellectual heritage will enjoy this compelling and magisterial history.

The Story of Canada

Author : Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780545996167
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Canada written by Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Toronto

Author : G.P. deT. Glazebrook
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487597606
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Toronto written by G.P. deT. Glazebrook and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1971-12-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a town dropped by the hand of government into the midst of a virgin forest. It is the story of Toronto from its earliest days to the present, and of the generations who worked to bring it from clearing to town, from town to city, from city to metropolis. George Glazebrook has drawn on unpublished papers and correspondence, as well as old newspapers, books, and pamphlets, to recount in vivid detail the evolution of the city, describing its characteristics at each stage of growth, and telling how it changed, and why. The story opens at the very beginning of Toronto's urban history, and goes on to present a fresh and graphic picture of life in the town through the years. Fifty-nine black-and-white photographs illustrate the city's ever-changing environment. Torontonians young and old will enjoy this presentation of their history, and Canadians everywhere will find much of interest in the story of one of the major cities of our country.

Rise to Greatness

Author : Conrad Black
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771013558
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rise to Greatness written by Conrad Black and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own. From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation. Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from Canada's first inhabitants and the early explorers, this masterful history challenges our perception of our history and Canada's role in the world. From Champlain to Carleton, Baldwin and Lafontaine, to MacDonald, Laurier, and King, Canada's role in peace and war, to Quebec's quest for autonomy, Black takes on sweeping themes and vividly recounts the story of Canada's development from colony to dominion to country. Black persuasively reveals that while many would argue that Canada was perhaps never predestined for greatness, the opposite is in fact true: the emergence of a magnificent country, against all odds, was a remarkable achievement. Brilliantly conceived, this major new reexamination of our country's history is a riveting tour de force by one of the best writers writing today.

Missing from the Village

Author : Justin Ling
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771048661
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Missing from the Village written by Justin Ling and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards An Indigo Best Book of 2020 Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book (Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence) The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community. In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay village were, perhaps, linked. When the leads ran dry, the search was shut down, on paper classified as "open but suspended." By 2015, investigative journalist Justin Ling had begun to retrace investigators' steps, convinced there was evidence of a serial killer. Meanwhile, more men would go missing, and police would continue to deny that there was a threat to the community. In early 2019, landscaper Bruce McArthur was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of eight men. There is so much more to the story than that. Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting, Missing from the Village recounts how a serial killer was allowed to stalk the city, how the community responded, and offers a window into the lives of these eight men and the friends and family left behind. Telling a story that goes well beyond Toronto, and back decades, Justin Ling draws on extensive interviews with those who experienced the investigation first-hand, including the detectives who eventually caught McArthur, and reveals how systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, and the structures of policing fail queer communities.

Toronto During the French Regime

Author : Percy James Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toronto During the French Regime written by Percy James Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Toronto Story

Author : Claire Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550377637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book The Toronto Story written by Claire Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revised and updated, here is the award-winning history of Toronto. Spirited, engaging text amply laced with humour and painted images magically tell the city's story" Cf. Our choice, 2003.

Toronto Makes

Author : Randi Bergman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773270524
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Makes written by Randi Bergman and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful object in itself, Toronto Makes is an inspiring tour through Toronto's thriving makers sceneToronto Makes features over 50 of the city's most exciting creative entrepreneurs sharing the stories behind the crafts they've dedicated their lives to. This beautifully photographed and designed volume celebrates bakers and brewers, fashion and jewellery designers, furniture makers and ceramicists, and many more--an eclectic group of incredibly talented people who make Toronto a little more special. Toronto Makes pairs engaging profiles by Toronto writer Randi Bergman artful photos of the people and products of Bather, Bellwoods Brewery, Biko, Coolican & Company, CXBO Chocolates by Brandon Olsen, F. Miller Skincare, Mary Young, Mima Ceramics, Pilot Coffee Roasters, Province Apothecary, Rekindle, Sloane Tea, and many more. This captivating collection illuminates the complex stories things made with a passion that will impress and inspire.