Toronto of Old - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toronto of Old write by Henry Scadding. This book was released on 1878. Toronto of Old available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Toronto Book of the Dead
The Toronto Book of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Toronto Book of the Dead write by Adam Bunch. This book was released on 2017-09-16. The Toronto Book of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Looking for Old Ontario
Looking for Old Ontario - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Looking for Old Ontario write by Thomas F. McIlwraith. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Looking for Old Ontario available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The slogan on Ontario's licence plates, 'Yours to Discover,' was designed to promote travel opportunities within the province. Every year, thousands of tourists drive along country roads, past farmyards and through hamlets, en route to popular vacation spots. In Looking for Old Ontario, Thomas McIlwraith shows that many destinations are closer at hand than one might imagine, and invites travellers to rediscover familiar countryside landmarks by 'reading' them as chapters in a rich historical narrative. Surveyors long ago scored Ontario's land, and generations have since inscribed it with residences, businesses, and institutions. This book, the result of thirty years of field work and archival research, is a reflection on and an interpretation of the ways in which the land and its inhabitants interrelate. Looking for Old Ontario guides readers through the vernacular landscape of the province, examining barns, fences, jails, post offices, inns, mills, canals, railways, roadsides, cemeteries, and much more. McIlwraith emphasizes ordinary features of the cultural landscape which communicate social meaning to the observant eye. The landscape tells us that Ontario has been inhabited by thrifty people; this we can conclude by looking at the economical use and reuse of construction materials. Yet the landscape also tells us that Ontario's residents have been inclined to show off: consider the province's unusually large number of elegant brick dwellings. To read a landscape is to think about such connections, and McIlwraith's contemplative style differentiates his work from manuals or handbooks. Since landscape interpretation is a highly visual subject, Looking for Old Ontario is extensively illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps. It will be useful to general readers interested in recognizing the broader meanings of their communities' heritage, as well as to students of geography, history, and planning.
Old Toronto Houses
Old Toronto Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Toronto Houses write by Tom Cruickshank. This book was released on 2008. Old Toronto Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring 250 houses and more than 400 color photographs, this book explores the Toronto's older homes illustrating more than 20 architectural styles from ten distinct neighborhoods. A new chapter features houses in the Greater Toronto Area.
Toronto of Old
Toronto of Old - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toronto of Old write by Henry Scadding. This book was released on 1987-01-10. Toronto of Old available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1873, Henry Scadding, former rector of Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity, wrote the definitive history of early Toronto. His detailed portrait of the streets, customs and prominent citizens is a goldmine of sights and insights into a Toronto long-since disappeared. Toronto of Old was first reprinted in 1966 and has been out of print since 1973. The later version, edited by Frederick H. Armstrong is shorter than the original, with Scadding’s references to outside cities and characters shortened or omitted to give the book a sharper focus on Toronto. This second edition is an updated and corected version of the 1966 edition. The best history of Toronto ever written, "Toronto of Old" by Henry Scadding, has just been edited by Professor F.H. Armstrong of the University of Western Ontario ... Armstrong’s editing, with his written reasons for a series of cuts, has made it a tighter and more informative book than the original. - Gordon Sinclair in Let’s Be Personal
