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Book Minutes of Proceedings of the Council of the Corporation of the City of Toronto

Download or read book Minutes of Proceedings of the Council of the Corporation of the City of Toronto written by Toronto (Ont.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Chief Constable

Download or read book Report of the Chief Constable written by Toronto (Ont.). Police Dept and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At Odds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Suzanne Morton
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802084415
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book At Odds written by Suzanne Morton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a rich variety of historical sources, Suzanne Morton traces the history of gambling regulation in five Canadian provinces - Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and B.C. - from the First World War to the federal legalization in 1969. This regulatory legislation, designed to control gambling, ended a long period of paradox and pretence during which gambling was common, but still illegal. Morton skilfully shows the relationship between gambling and the wider social mores of the time, as evinced by labour, governance, and the regulation of 'vice.' Her focus on the ways in which race, class, and gender structured the meaning of gambling underpins and illuminates the historical data she presents. She shows, for example, as "Old Canada" (the Protestant, Anglo-Celtic establishment) declined in influence, gambling took on a less deviant connotation - a process that continued as charity became secularized and gambling became a lucrative fundraising activity eventually linked to the welfare state. At Odds is the first Canadian historical examination of gambling, a complex topic which is still met by moral ambivalence, legal proscription, and volatile opinion. This highly original study will be of interest to the undergraduate history or social science student, but will also hold the attention of a more general reader.

Book Wheeling through Toronto

Download or read book Wheeling through Toronto written by Albert Koehl and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Report of the Social Survey Commission  Toronto  Presented to the City Council  October 4th  1915

Download or read book Report of the Social Survey Commission Toronto Presented to the City Council October 4th 1915 written by Toronto. Social Survey Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Breadwinning Daughters

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  • Author : Katrina Srigley
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442610034
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Breadwinning Daughters written by Katrina Srigley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto.

Book The Chinese in Toronto from 1878

Download or read book The Chinese in Toronto from 1878 written by Arlene Chan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894 Toronto's Chinese population numbered 50. Today, no less than seven Chinatowns serve the second-largest visible minority in the city, with a population of half a million. With their many achievements, the Chinese have become a vibrant part of the diverse mosaic that makes Toronto one of the most multicultural cities in the world.

Book Death in the Queen City

Download or read book Death in the Queen City written by Patrick Brode and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, the death by gunshot of 18-year-old Frank Westwood baffled Toronto police until their arrest of a strong-willed woman of colour named Clara Ford.

Book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance for the Province of Ontario

Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance for the Province of Ontario written by Ontario. Office of the Superintendent of Insurance and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Undressed Toronto

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dale Barbour
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2021-10-01
  • ISBN : 0887559492
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Undressed Toronto written by Dale Barbour and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Discrimination and Denial

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clayton James Mosher
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802071491
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Discrimination and Denial written by Clayton James Mosher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Champion sprinter Donovan Bailey said it, and this book confirms it. While racism may not be as blatant in Canada as in the United States, it does exist. Members of visible minority groups are discriminated against in employment, housing, and access to public services. The increasing visibility of hate groups and calls to restrict immigration mark the growing tension. Racist attitudes against Asians and Blacks, in particular, have seeped into the criminal justice system. Ironically, since 1960 it has been illegal in Ontario to track crime by race, making it difficult for researchers to collect data. The media, our primary source of information, has sensationalized crimes where minority groups are implicated. Clayton Mosher uses historical data and media reports to expose racism in Canada's social, legal, and criminal justice systems. He considers the social contexts of discrimination, legislation directed against minority groups, law enforcement, and court outcomes. At last, we are offered an objective assessment of racism in Canada. Discrimination and Denial is essential reading for judges, lawyers, police officers, social policy makers, and community leaders. Interpretations of recent events, such as the shooting of officer Todd Baylis by a fugitive alien and gang-style slayings in Toronto's Chinatown, are guaranteed to heat up the embers of public debate.

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-1945.

Book Readings in Canadian History  Post Confederation

Download or read book Readings in Canadian History Post Confederation written by R. Douglas Francis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance

Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance written by Ontario. Department of Insurance and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boy on the Bicycle

Download or read book The Boy on the Bicycle written by Nate Hendley and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of September 15, 1956, a seven-year-old child was murdered on the deserted grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. The main suspect was a teenage boy seen near the crime scene on a bicycle. Toronto police arrested Ron Moffatt, a fourteen-year-old former CNE employee who vaguely fit the description of the suspect. During a tough interrogation, Ron falsely confessed and was convicted at trial. In truth, Ron couldn’t ride a bicycle and was innocent; his phony admission was the product of fear and pressure tactics. The real culprit — sex offender and serial killer Peter Woodcock — remained at large, preying on new victims. This shocking story has eerie parallels to the Steven Truscott case (which also involved a fourteen-year-old Ontario boy accused of murder) but has been largely forgotten until now. A powerful account about a coerced confession, a fumbled police investigation and the crusading lawyer who fought to free Ron from custody.

Book Annual Report for

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alcoholism Research Foundation (Toronto, Ont.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1957
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Annual Report for written by Alcoholism Research Foundation (Toronto, Ont.) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: