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Author : Centennial Committee (TORONTO)
Release : 1934
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Book Synopsis Toronto's 100 Years. By Jesse Edgar Middleton. [With Illustrations.]. by : Centennial Committee (TORONTO)
Download or read book Toronto's 100 Years. By Jesse Edgar Middleton. [With Illustrations.]. written by Centennial Committee (TORONTO). This book was released on 1934. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesse Edgar Middleton
Release : 1934
Genre : Toronto (Ont.)
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Book Synopsis Toronto's 100 Years by : Jesse Edgar Middleton
Download or read book Toronto's 100 Years written by Jesse Edgar Middleton. This book was released on 1934. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William J. Smyth
Release : 2015-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Toronto, the Belfast of Canada by : William J. Smyth
Download or read book Toronto, the Belfast of Canada written by William J. Smyth. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toronto, the Belfast of Canada explores the intolerant origins of today's cosmopolitan city.
Author : Timothy J. Stewart
Release : 2017-09-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War 1915–1919 by : Timothy J. Stewart
Download or read book Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War 1915–1919 written by Timothy J. Stewart. This book was released on 2017-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales Hospital ships filled the harbour of Le Havre as the 75th Mississauga Battalion arrived on 13 August 1916. Those soldiers who survived would spend almost three years in a tiny corner of northeastern France and northwestern Belgium (Flanders), where many of their comrades still lie. And they would serve in many of the most horrific battles of that long, bloody conflict—Saint Eloi, the Somme, Arras, Vimy, Hill 70, Lens, Passchendaele, Amiens, Drocourt-Quéant, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, and Valenciennes. This book tells the story of the 75th Battalion (later the Toronto Scottish Regiment) and the five thousand men who formed it—most from Toronto—from all walks of life. They included professionals, university graduates, white- and blue-collar workers, labourers, and the unemployed, some illiterate. They left a comfortable existence in the prosperous, strongly pro-British provincial capital for life in the trenches of France and Flanders. Tommy Church, mayor of Toronto from 1915 to 1921, sought to include his city’s name in the unit’s name because of the many city officials and local residents who served in it. Three years later Church accepted the 75th’s now heavily emblazoned colours for safekeeping at City Hall from Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Harbottle, who returned with his bloodied but successful survivors. The author pulls no punches in recounting their labours, triumphs, and travails. Timothy J. Stewart undertook exhaustive research for this first-ever history of the 75th, drawing from archival sources (focusing on critical decisions by Brigadier Victor Oldum, General Officer Commanding 11th Brigade), diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, and interviews.
Author : G.P. deT. Glazebrook
Release : 1971-12-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Story of Toronto by : G.P. deT. Glazebrook
Download or read book The Story of Toronto written by G.P. deT. Glazebrook. This book was released on 1971-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a town dropped by the hand of government into the midst of a virgin forest. It is the story of Toronto from its earliest days to the present, and of the generations who worked to bring it from clearing to town, from town to city, from city to metropolis. George Glazebrook has drawn on unpublished papers and correspondence, as well as old newspapers, books, and pamphlets, to recount in vivid detail the evolution of the city, describing its characteristics at each stage of growth, and telling how it changed, and why. The story opens at the very beginning of Toronto's urban history, and goes on to present a fresh and graphic picture of life in the town through the years. Fifty-nine black-and-white photographs illustrate the city's ever-changing environment. Torontonians young and old will enjoy this presentation of their history, and Canadians everywhere will find much of interest in the story of one of the major cities of our country.
