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  • Toronto, No Mean City

    Third Edition, Revised

    by Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto ...
    Series series Heritage
    Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Toronto, No Mean City

    by Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto ...
    Series series The Canada 150 Collection
    Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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  • The Spencer Mansion

    A House, a Home, and an Art Gallery

    by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor ...
    Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. With detailed research, historian and author Robert Ratcliffe Taylor describes the original appearance of the house, designed by William Ridgway Wilson for Alexander Green and his family, as well as its inhabitants over the decades. Also known as ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • London

    by Stephen Halliday ...
    Series series Amazing & Extraordinary Facts
    Strange laws, heroic deeds, surprising revelations, and quirky stories that have shaped the unique history of Britain’s capital.London’s long history is extraordinarily rich—and whether your interest is political, social, architectural, or historical, you’ll find a variety of topics in this alternative guide to London.Learn about:· Roman ruins· Notorious crimes· Hidden tube stations· The famous ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mount Pleasant Cemetery

    An Illustrated Guide: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

    by Mike Filey ...
    Established in 1876, Mount Pleasant Cemetery has a rich and textured history. It is the keeper of thousands of stories, each of which has contributed to the history of our city, province, and country.Many of Canada's most beloved figures rest there - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Foster Hewitt, Glenn Gould, and Timothy Eaton are just a few. Other, less known historical figures are buried there also ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going to Town

    Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario

    by Katherine Ashenburg ...
    Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.With 300 photos and 11 maps.A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges the near universal vice of real-estate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Five Hundred Buildings of London

    by Gill Davies, John Reynolds ...
    Five hundred stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic, and interesting examples of architecture in one of the world's most beloved citiesThe greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of London come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. Information including the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Historic London

    An Explorer's Companion

    by Stephen Inwood ...
    There is hardly a city in the world with richer historical and cultural assocations than London. It is a place where history has been made for thousands of years, and where it is still being made today. It is not a city frozen in time, preserved in its ancient medieval pomp but a place that has been at or near the centre of national life for a thousand years and at the forefront of international ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Villages Within

    An Irreverent History of Toronto and a Respectful Guide to the St. Andrew's Market, the Kings West District, the Kensington Market, and Queen Street West

    by Doug Taylor ...
    The Villages Within is an irreverent version of Torontos past that will not improve anyones knowledge of history, but its fabrications and exaggerations may provide an amusing insight into the lives of those who built the town of York. It is an expos of historical untruths, a book that no school should ever permit its students to read.Discover Lord Dorchesters unusual method of staying warm while ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 200 Years Yonge

    A History

    Edited by Ralph Magel ...
    The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation’s Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil. Augustus Jones, the surveyor assigned by Simcoe, the French, the German pioneers, the Loyalists – all were to influence the building of Yonge Street. With the building of a route came tolls, inns, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amazing Tales of St. Lawrence Neighbourhood in Old Town Toronto

    by Bruce Bell ...
    Children were hanged, women without husbands had little choice but to prostitute themselves, clergy and ruling families cruelly dominated a lusty, oftentimes unruly population.The seamy and the sacred united to form one of the world's great cities: Toronto. Telling its tales is famed local historian Bruce Bell, a uniquely skilled and deeply emotional storyteller. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Newmarket

    The Heart of York Region

    by Robert Terence Carter ...
    In the early 1800s, Timothy Robers, a Quaker millwright from Vermont, drew a flourishing community of fellow Quakers to the area which became the new-market for settles and traders.It soon became the commercial hub of a rich farming area. By the mid-1800s it was a central point on the Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron Railway. Over the following decades, gas deposits were confirmed there and a barge ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus