Wheeling Through Toronto
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Wheeling Through Toronto
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Author : Albert Koehl
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2024-05-01
Wheeling Through Toronto written by Albert Koehl 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 2024-05-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Highlighting an important yet often ignored part of Toronto’s transportation story, Wheeling through Toronto chronicles the history of the bicycle and reveals a way forward for a world in climate crisis. Throughout its history in Toronto, the bicycle’s place on the roads and in public esteem has fluctuated wildly: flaunted as fashionable, disparaged and derided, rescued from looming obscurity, and promoted as a way to respond to the challenges of the day. What is it about the simple bicycle that it can be so loved by some yet despised and detested by others? Wheeling through Toronto offers a 130-year ride from the 1890s to the present to help answer this question. Albert Koehl, a Toronto lawyer and leading cycling advocate, chronicles the tumultuous history of this mode of transportation from the bicycle craze at the turn of the century, to the rise of the car and the motorway in the 1950s, to the intensifying cry for active transportation in the 1990s and into pandemic times. In an era of catastrophic climate events, Wheeling through Toronto highlights how the bicycle should be celebrated not only as hope for the future, but also for its affordability, for its contribution to clean and healthy mobility, and because it brings happiness and joy to so many. Drawing on archival materials, newspapers, and personal interviews, and full of fascinating vignettes, this book presents the story of how we got here and what Torontonians need to know as we pedal forward.
Playing It Forward
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Author : Guylaine Demers
language : en
Publisher: Second Story Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Playing It Forward written by Guylaine Demers and has been published by Second Story Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Over the last 50 years, the struggles to achieve equity in sport have become central to the feminist mission. This book contains an inspiring collection of stories from the women on the front lines: athletes, coaches, educators, and activists for women's sport, who have done so much to foster change. Many of the women profiled here reflect on their tough beginnings in sport: being isolated and unconnected, competing in makeshift settings, training alone, and inadequate equipment. But they also reflect on the joy of movement, teamwork, and competition. These women grew to be remarkable role models and helped to dismantle sexism in sport. To read these stories is to swell with pride over their victories, to empathize with their battles with discrimination, and to become re-energized to confront collectively the many hurdles left to clear.
Life In The Fast Lane
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Author : Chris Stoddart
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2023-01-04
Life In The Fast Lane written by Chris Stoddart and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the late 1960s, a new sport emerged in Canada that would change the lives of many people: wheelchair sports. In Life in the Fast Lane, Chris Stoddart recounts the rise of wheelchair racing, with him as one of its pioneers. Born with spina bifida—a condition that affects the development of the spine—Stoddart witnessed the extraordinary transformation of the wheelchair from a heavy and unwieldy functional contraption to a light and sleek design meant for the racetrack. From his beginnings as a wheelchair basketball player to his evolution into a three-time Paralympian and fifty-mile marathon racer, Stoddart shares his life journey as it parallels Canada’s rise in wheelchair sports. With a matter-of-fact but approachable tone, Stoddart shines a light on the many veterans of wheelchair sports who may have been forgotten over the years. Most notably, however, is this athlete’s dedication to people who live with disabilities. During his successful career as an amateur athlete, Stoddart worked for the War Amps of Canada for almost thirty years. Learn about the history of wheelchair racing in Canada, where we stand today, and what we need to do to make sure people with disabilities share the spotlight with able-bodied athletes.
Interpreting The City
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Author : Truman Asa Hartshorn
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1992-04-16
Interpreting The City written by Truman Asa Hartshorn and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-16 with Social Science categories.
The Second Edition has been rewritten to provide additional coverage of topics such as urban development and third world cities as well as social issues including homelessness, jobs/housing mismatch and transportation disadvantages. It has also been updated with 1990 Census data.
Report
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Author : Connecticut. State Department of Health
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Report written by Connecticut. State Department of Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Connecticut categories.
Connecticut Gridiron
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Author : William J. Ryczek
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-10-21
Connecticut Gridiron written by William J. Ryczek and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s is based on extensive newspaper and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former players, broadcasters and journalists. Only a few players--like Marv Hubbard, Lou Piccone and Bob Tucker--made it to the NFL, but many more played for as little as $25 per game in their quest to make it big or just have fun. Wealthy men like Pete Savin and Frank D'Addario owned teams in Hartford and Bridgeport. In the days before cable television saturated the media with live sports, small town fans turned out to support their local heroes, often men who worked on construction crews during the week and stopped by the diner Sunday morning to talk football. Now in their 60s, 70s and 80s, these men share their stories of a simpler era; the good times, like the Hartford Knights' 1968 ACFL championship season, and the long bus rides and missed paydays that were as much a part of minor league ball as first downs and interceptions.
Motorboating
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950-10
Motorboating written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950-10 with categories.
Licensed To Practice
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Author : James C. Mohr
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Licensed To Practice written by James C. Mohr and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Law categories.
How did American doctors come to be licensed on the terms we now take for granted? Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another on trial for his life. Formerly close friends, the doctors had fallen out over the issue of medical licensing. Historian James C. Mohr calls the murder “a sorry personal consequence of the far larger and historically significant battle among West Virginia’s physicians over the future of their profession.” Through most of the nineteenth century, anyone could call themselves a doctor and could practice medicine on whatever basis they wished. But an 1889 U.S. Supreme Court case, Dent v. West Virginia, effectively transformed medical practice from an unregulated occupation to a legally recognized profession. The political and legal battles that led up to the decision were unusually bitter—especially among physicians themselves—and the outcome was far from a foregone conclusion. So-called Regular physicians wanted to impose their own standards on the wide-open medical marketplace in which they and such non-Regulars as Thomsonians, Botanics, Hydropaths, Homeopaths, and Eclectics competed. The Regulars achieved their goal by persuading the state legislature to make it a crime for anyone to practice without a license from the Board of Health, which they controlled. When the high court approved that arrangement—despite constitutional challenges—the licensing precedents established in West Virginia became the bedrock on which the modern American medical structure was built. And those precedents would have profound implications. Thus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact.
Vegas Tryout
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Author : Lorna Schultz Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Release Date : 2012-03-14
Vegas Tryout written by Lorna Schultz Nicholson and has been published by James Lorimer & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Carrie Munroe: the synchro swimmer who won't let her body shape weigh her down
Report Of The Department Of Health
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Author : Connecticut. State Dept. of Health
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Report Of The Department Of Health written by Connecticut. State Dept. of Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with categories.