Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by Francess G. Halpenny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1966 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is the definitive biographical reference work in Canadian history. "No serious student of Canada's past can function without access to this thorough, balanced and reliable source." R. Hall, Globe and Mail.
Download or read book William Berczy Co founder of Toronto written by John Andre and published by Borough of York. This book was released on 1967 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Berczy was born in Wallerstein, Germany and immigrated to Toronto in 1792, having contracted with the British government in London " ... to peddle lands in Germany and also to procure German servants' to settle the Genesee lands." He took 134 settlers besides his own family. He died in New York in 1813, while visiting there.
Download or read book Remembering the Don written by Charles Sauriol and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1981-11-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the days when there were Mississauga Indians camped along a Don River teeming with salmon, red-coated militia regiments, and courageous pioneers.
Download or read book Art Et Architecture Au Canada written by Loren Ruth Lerner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.
Download or read book The Yonge Street Story 1793 1860 written by F. R. Berchem and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canada's defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily loathed, Simcoe had his Queen's Rangers survey and develop the route from Toronto to present-day Holland Landing, and laid out lots for settlement. Even the trusty Rangers, as one surveyor complained in 1799, needed little excuse to lay down tools and vanish "to carouse upon St. George's day." Handsomely illustrated with the author's drawings, and painstakingly researched, this book captures the not-so-distant days when muddy Yonge Street was the backbone of pioneer Ontario.
Download or read book Inside the Museums written by John Goddard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage Toronto Book Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction Book Illuminates Toronto’s early history through its small heritage museums. A portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie stares from a mural at Queen subway station, his face as round and orange as a wheel of cheese. He served as Toronto’s first mayor, led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, and was grandfather to William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s tenth prime minister, whose own orange-pink visage graces the Canadian fifty-dollar bill. Three blocks from the station, Mackenzie died in the upstairs bedroom of a house now open as a heritage museum, part of a network of such homes and sites from early Toronto. Inside the Museums tells their stories. It explains why Eliza Gibson risked her life to save a clock, reveals the appalling instructions that Robert Baldwin left in his will, and examines how the career of postmaster James Scott Howard shattered on the most baseless of innuendos at one of the most highly charged moments in the city’s history.
Download or read book Sights of Resistance written by Robert James Belton and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains: Chapters from text -- Glossary.
Download or read book The Yonge Street Story 1793 1860 written by F.R. (Hamish) Berchem and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canada's defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily loathed, Simcoe had his Queen's Rangers survey and develop the route from Toronto to present-day Holland Landing, and laid out lots for settlement. Even the trusty Rangers, as one surveyor complained in 1799, needed little excuse to lay down tools and vanish "to carouse upon St. George's day." Handsomely illustrated with the author's drawings, and painstakingly researched, this book captures the not-so-distant days when muddy Yonge Street was the backbone of pioneer Ontario.
Download or read book Earliest Toronto written by Robert MacIntosh and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Bloody Beginnings written by David R. Beasley and published by David Beasley. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central character of this story, Richard Beasley, was indeed a man of some prominence in the years just before and the decades after the creation of this province. A descendant has cast his ancestor's biography as a personal narrative - a drama with famous players indeed: Richard Cartwright, Major John Butler, Chief Joseph Brant and Isaac Brock as well as Family Compact members John Strachan and John Beverley Robinson along with radicals Robert Gourlay and William Lyon Mackenzie. Readers who enjoy fictionalized scenes with imaginatively created dialogue, all based on extensive research, will welcome this volume and its fresh approach to an important historical period.—OHS BULLETIN .
Download or read book Bande Dessin e written by Laurence Grove and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinée, Franco-Belgian comics This special issue of Yale French Studies on bande dessinée is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status. It goes beyond the question, settled long ago, of its artistic legitimacy but aims to think "outside the boxes," or cases, themselves in order to explore the mutually enriching relationship between BD and the wider francophone cultural and intellectual world. Contributions thus intersect with art history, literary theory, cinema studies, postcolonialism, semiotics, and political sociology. Articles are by mainstream interdisciplinary scholars applying themselves to BD, leading authorities on bande dessinée itself, BD artists, and key figures in contemporary French thought whose texts appear in English for the first time.
Download or read book Toronto written by Bruce Bell and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk the fascinating streets of Toronto, guided by award-winning playwright and historian Bruce Bell and renowned photographer Elan Penn. From significant firsts, such as the original Parliament, to tourist favorites like the Hockey Hall of Fame, from the famed CN Tower to Niagara Falls, these 80 sites offer something for history buffs, sports fans, culture seekers, nature lovers, even shoppers. Bell provides a wonderful narrative of the city's background, and its development from a humble watering hole and hunting ground used by native peoples to a place renowned for its stark modernity and rich diversity. Follow the rise of an Imperial city; explore the great churches and government buildings; check into the luxurious modern hotels, and go through Toronto's many universities, the biggest, tallest, and oldest attractions, plus the most elegant neighborhoods, all in one enjoyable visit.
Download or read book Inside the Museum Toronto s First Post Office written by John Goddard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Toronto’s first post office at 260 Adelaide Street East, a handsome red-brick building still flying the Union Jack, and built in 1834. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour of the house, providing fascinating historical background and insight.
Download or read book Historic Unionville written by George Duncan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour of historic Unionville, a little Ontario village bursting with historic buildings full of stories. Unionville is a village in the city — an unexpected oasis where time seems to move a little more slowly than in the hectic world of condos, commercial strips, and traffic gridlock. Since the late 1960s, when Unionville and its vintage Main Street were “discovered,” the village has been a magnet for visitors. Historic Unionville is the first detailed exploration of the facts and folklore behind Unionville’s winding ways and eclectic architectural sights, which span two centuries from the Georgian to the Postmodern. Touring the heritage sites that still stand proudly in the community as signposts to the past, George Duncan brings to life stories of the people, places, and events behind this unique and inviting Ontario village.
Download or read book Report written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report accompanied by historical documents, calendars, etc.
Download or read book Report Concerning Canadian Archives written by Public Archives Canada and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
