A City in the Making examines certain of the events that took place in the nineteenth century Toronto, paying particular attention to those who carved a thriving metropolis out of the frontier post that was the town of York.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.3/541
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 1550020269 9781770700611
- LCCN
- F1059.5.T68
- LCCN Item number
- A86 1988eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (358 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603036 (OCoLC)605746038 (CaOOCEL)410417
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 7
- Preface 9
- Introduction 11
- Part I: The Urban Background 18
- 1. The New City in 1834: The Physical Layout 19
- 2. A Rising Metropolis: Expanding Toronto's Frontiers, 1825-1850 37
- 3. Developing Communications: The First Railway Venture 52
- Part II: The Most Controversal Torontonian 78
- 4. The York Riots of March 23,1832 82
- 5. The First Mayor of Toronto: A study of a critic in power, 1834 98
- 6. The Reformer as Strike Breaker: William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1836 Printer's Strike 125
- 7. William Lyon Mackenzie: The Persistent Hero 138
- Part III: Types of Torontonians 164
- 8. The Scottish Immigrant, The Family Compact, and Vertical Mobility: The rise of the Carfrae Family 167
- 9. Evolving Multiculturalism: The Toronto's Black Community in the Late 1840's 195
- 10. Capt. Hugh Richardson and Toronto's Lake Communications 205
- 11. An Ambulatory Architect: William Hay 215
- 12. The Unwitting Philanthropist: The Curious Case of Andrew Mercer 230
- Part IV: Disasters and Recoveries 252
- 13. The First Great Fire, 1849 254
- 14. The Rebuilding After the First Great Fire 280
- 15. The Second Great Fire, 1904 299
- Endnotes 331
- Selected Bibliography 348
- List of Illustrations 351
- Index 353
- A 353
- B 353
- C 354
- D 355
- E 355
- F 355
- G 355
- H 356
- I 356
- J 356
- K 356
- L 357
- M 357
- N 358
- O 358
- P 358
- Q 358
- R 358
- S 359
- T 360
- U 361
- V 361
- W 361
- Y 361
