Author: Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459728726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
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.
Riverdale
Author: Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459728726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459728726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
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.
Governing Ourselves?
Author: Mary Louise McAllister
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840749
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Given the pressures of integration and assimilation, how are people within communities able to make decisions about their own environment, whether individually or collectively? Governing Ourselves? explores issues of influence and power within local institutions and decision-making processes using numerous illustrations from municipalities across Canada. It shows how communities large and small, from Toronto to Iqaluit, have distinctive political cultures and therefore respond differently to changing global and domestic environments. Case studies illuminate historical and contemporary challenges to local governance. This book covers topics including government structures and institutions and intergovernmental relations and reaches more broadly into geography, urban planning, environmental studies, public administration, and sociology.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840749
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Given the pressures of integration and assimilation, how are people within communities able to make decisions about their own environment, whether individually or collectively? Governing Ourselves? explores issues of influence and power within local institutions and decision-making processes using numerous illustrations from municipalities across Canada. It shows how communities large and small, from Toronto to Iqaluit, have distinctive political cultures and therefore respond differently to changing global and domestic environments. Case studies illuminate historical and contemporary challenges to local governance. This book covers topics including government structures and institutions and intergovernmental relations and reaches more broadly into geography, urban planning, environmental studies, public administration, and sociology.
The Yellow Briar
Author: Patrick Slater
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770705996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these. Ostensibly the charming remembrance of an Irish orphan who escapes the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and comes to the New World to seek a fresh start on the streets of Toronto and in the pioneer hinterland of Canada West (Ontario), the book was actually a fictional humbug perpetrated by John Mitchell, a Toronto lawyer, who first published the tale in 1933. Patrick Slater, the protagonist of the "memoir," is said to have died in 1924 but not before setting his saga down on paper. And what an account it is! The Globe and Mail felt that the book "gives a picture of Ontario to be found in no other work of fiction we know and has won for itself a permanent place in Canadian literature." If nothing else, Slater/Mitchell captures perfectly the lilt of the Irish and the wry wisdom of an old soul to paint an affecting portrait of trials and tribulations in a long-ago time.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770705996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these. Ostensibly the charming remembrance of an Irish orphan who escapes the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and comes to the New World to seek a fresh start on the streets of Toronto and in the pioneer hinterland of Canada West (Ontario), the book was actually a fictional humbug perpetrated by John Mitchell, a Toronto lawyer, who first published the tale in 1933. Patrick Slater, the protagonist of the "memoir," is said to have died in 1924 but not before setting his saga down on paper. And what an account it is! The Globe and Mail felt that the book "gives a picture of Ontario to be found in no other work of fiction we know and has won for itself a permanent place in Canadian literature." If nothing else, Slater/Mitchell captures perfectly the lilt of the Irish and the wry wisdom of an old soul to paint an affecting portrait of trials and tribulations in a long-ago time.
Toronto to 1918
Author: J.M.S. Careless
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780888626646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
At the beginning of 1793 Toronto was the gateway to a distant portage to the Upper Great Lakes, its permanent population a lone fur trader. One hundred and twenty-five years later it was a solid, vibrant metropolis, an industrial powerhouse supporting half a million residents. Toronto is a city built by its people, from the original colonial aristocracy of the Family Compact, to the masses of British and Irish migrants who forged its profound links with Empire, to the polyglot flow of international migration that would ultimately transform the city in the twentieth century. This book recounts their stories, and their stories are the history of Toronto's emergence as a world-class city. In Toronto to 1918, distinguished historian J.M.S. Careless expertly draws Toronto's stories together, creating an illuminating and entertaining portrait of the city. The text is complemented with more than 150 historical illustrations.
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780888626646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
At the beginning of 1793 Toronto was the gateway to a distant portage to the Upper Great Lakes, its permanent population a lone fur trader. One hundred and twenty-five years later it was a solid, vibrant metropolis, an industrial powerhouse supporting half a million residents. Toronto is a city built by its people, from the original colonial aristocracy of the Family Compact, to the masses of British and Irish migrants who forged its profound links with Empire, to the polyglot flow of international migration that would ultimately transform the city in the twentieth century. This book recounts their stories, and their stories are the history of Toronto's emergence as a world-class city. In Toronto to 1918, distinguished historian J.M.S. Careless expertly draws Toronto's stories together, creating an illuminating and entertaining portrait of the city. The text is complemented with more than 150 historical illustrations.
Historical Collections of Harrison County, in the State of Ohio
Author: Charles Augustus Hanna
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harrison County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harrison County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
History of York County, Maine
Author: W. Woodford Clayton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley
Author: Uriah James Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
History of York County, Pennsylvania
Author: Israel Daniel Rupp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description