Cabbagetown Remembered
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Cabbage Town Remembered
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Author : George Rust-D'Eye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Cabbage Town Remembered written by George Rust-D'Eye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Toronto (Ont.) categories.
Cabbage Town Remembered
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Author : George Rust-D'Eye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Cabbage Town Remembered written by George Rust-D'Eye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Toronto (Ont.) categories.
Undressed Toronto
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Author : Dale Barbour
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 2021-10-01
Undressed Toronto written by Dale Barbour and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-01 with History categories.
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.
Toronto
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Author : Allan Levine
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2014-09-13
Toronto written by Allan Levine and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-13 with History categories.
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.
Reclaiming The Don
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Author : Jennifer L. Bonnell
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2014-09-24
Reclaiming The Don written by Jennifer L. Bonnell and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-24 with History categories.
A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. 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. Demonstrating how mosquito-ridden lowlands, frequent floods, and over-burdened municipal waterways shaped the city’s development, Reclaiming the Don illuminates the impact of the valley as a physical and conceptual place on Toronto’s development. Bonnell explains how for more than two centuries the Don has served as a source of raw materials, a sink for wastes, and a place of refuge for people pushed to the edges of society, as well as the site of numerous improvement schemes that have attempted to harness the river and its valley to build a prosperous metropolis. Exploring the interrelationship between urban residents and their natural environments, she shows how successive generations of Toronto residents have imagined the Don as an opportunity, a refuge, and an eyesore. Combining extensive research with in-depth analysis, Reclaiming the Don will be a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Toronto’s development.
Modest Hopes
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Author : Don Loucks
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2021-09-14
Modest Hopes written by Don Loucks and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with History categories.
Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Despite their value as urban property, Toronto’s workers’ cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life. Through the stories of eight families who lived in these “Modest Hopes,” authors Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of Toronto’s working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville, Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.
The Don
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Author : Lorna Poplak
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2021-01-26
The Don written by Lorna Poplak and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with History categories.
An in-depth exploration of the Don Jail from its inception through jailbreaks and overcrowding to its eventual shuttering and rebirth. Conceived as a “palace for prisoners,” the Don Jail never lived up to its promise. Although based on progressive nineteenth-century penal reform and architectural principles, the institution quickly deteriorated into a place of infamy where both inmates and staff were in constant danger of violence and death. Its mid-twentieth-century replacement, the New Don, soon became equally tainted. Along with investigating the origins and evolution of Toronto’s infamous jail, The Don presents a kaleidoscope of memorable characters — inmates, guards, governors, murderous gangs, meddlesome politicians, harried architects, and even a pair of star-crossed lovers whose doomed romance unfolded in the shadow of the gallows. This is the story of the Don’s tumultuous descent from palace to hellhole, its shuttering and lapse into decay, and its astonishing modern-day metamorphosis. Speaker's Book Award 2021 — Shortlisted | Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book 2022 — Shortlisted
Riverdale
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Author : Elizabeth Gillan Muir
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2014-10-08
Riverdale written by Elizabeth Gillan Muir and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-08 with History categories.
A complete history of Toronto's Riverdale community, this book narrates the lives of early inhabitants, (reaching as far back as Simcoe's first settlement of the region), the construction boom of 1915, and the waves of immigration that made Riverdale one of Toronto's most diverse areas.
The Dive
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Author : Robert Muir
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2014-06-19
The Dive written by Robert Muir and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-19 with Fiction categories.
The city has a lot to offer. Jobs. Money. Opportunity. It’s 1987, and the urban haze has lured young George Wentworth to the centre of Toronto. But the reality is not what he had imagined. Months in, he is broke, unemployed, and disenchanted. Finally, when approached by two men with a different offer of work, he takes it, without hesitation. But as the crowd welcomes him in, George finds himself in a world he never imagined — a world of crime, drugs and deception — where mistakes are often costly.
Toronto S Poor
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Author : Bryan D. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Between the Lines
Release Date : 2016-11-23
Toronto S Poor written by Bryan D. Palmer and has been published by Between the Lines this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-23 with Social Science categories.
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.