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Fifty Tales of Toronto /
Donald Jones' 'Historic Toronto' column in the Star has proved one of the city's most widely read newspaper features. Now for the first time he has gathered together some of his personal favourites. The result is a richly entertaining collage of amazing and amusing tales of the c...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1992.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- PREFACE
- 1 Monumental murals recall the pageantry of Canada
- 2 The royal opening of a 'royal' museum
- 3 Two bronze cannon in Queen's Park recall Canada's greatest military heroes
- 4 The 'loaded' story of Canada's first airmail flight
- 5 Roger Sheaffe and 'the most dramatic day in Toronto's history'
- 6 Anne Powell's fatal love affair
- 7 Kit Coleman: the world's first woman war correspondent
- 8 The mysterious visitor who truly founded the ROM's Chinese collection
- 9 'Caverhill': treasure of Rosedale
- 10 The teen-age triumphs of the legendary Kathleen Parlow11 Sarah Bernhardt's 'scandalous' performance in Toronto
- 12 La Salle: the epic tragedy of one of the world's heroes
- 13 Was the founder of Upper Canada College the true hero of the Battle of Waterloo?
- 14 Oscar Wilde in Toronto
- 15 The violinist from Vienna who founded the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- 16 The epic tale of the Scottish Highlanders and Toronto's first Roman Catholic church
- 17 The blind young veteran who founded the CNIB
- 18 The Toronto nurse who changed her name and became Elizabeth Arden19 Bea Lillie: 'The funniest woman in the world'
- 20 Why Mackenzie King built a replica of Pasteur's tomb in Toronto
- 21 The true story behind Charles Dickens' visit to Toronto
- 22 How Leo Tolstoy and a Toronto professor brought the Doukhobors to Canada
- 23 The Grange: an architectural treasure
- 24 The extraordinary story of a dog named Beautiful Joe
- 25 The international (and surprising) tale of Mrs Morrison's opera house
- 26 The Reverend John Strachan's grand deception
- 27 Bernard Lonergan: perhaps the finest philosopher of the 20th century28 Canada's Margaret Anglin: 'one of America's greatest actresses'
- 29 How a beloved 'dictator' built the Hospital for Sick Children
- 30 The man who founded the Canadian Opera Company
- 31 The Toronto riots of 1832 and William Lyon Mackenzie's 'greatest moment'
- 32 The forgotten story of a Frans Hals masterpiece
- 33 Egerton Ryerson and a famous letter to the editor
- 34 The choir that wouldn't die
- 35 How a world-famous statue of Peter Pan came to Toronto
- 36 The man who helped Sigmund Freud escape from the Gestapo37 Canada's first black doctor: a hero of the American Civil War
- 38 Did Captain Roy Brown really kill the Red Baron?
- 39 The actor who became governor-general
- 40 The first forester of the New World
- 41 The mystery surrounding Prince George's death
- 42 The sculptor who designed Canada's 'caribou' quarter and 'Bluenose' dime
- 43 Dr Tupper, Sir John, and the 'picnics' that changed Canada's history
- 44 Miss Deeks' notorious lawsuit against H.G. Wells