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- The Simcoe legacy : the life and times of Yonge Street / by Ontario Historical Society;
Contents : Foreward / Wyn Millar. Introduction / Linda Kelly. The Mississauga and the building of Yonge Street, 1794-1796 / Donald B. Smith. William Berczy's settler axemen / Lorne R. Smith. The Yonge Street rebellion / Carl Benn. From horse to stage doaches, street cars, jitneys and subways / R.B. Fleming. The road is open / Jeanne Hopkins.A collection of the papers from the seminar which explored the legacy of John Graves Simcoe, Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor, and his search for a route to Canada's interior that led to the building of the longest street in the world.
- © c1996., Ontario Historical Society,
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- The Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club : official centennial publication, 1917-2017 / by Shea, Kevin,1956-author.; Wilson, Jason,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Toronto Maple Leafs (Hockey team);
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- Frontier city : Toronto on the verge of greatness / by Micallef, Shawn,1974-;
The author provides a view of the Toronto of today and of the near future with a focus on the political candidates from the Greater Toronto area.LSC
- Subjects: Social change; Political candidates;
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- We the North : 25 years of the Toronto Raptors / by Smith, Doug,1958-author.; Carter, Vince,writer of foreword.;
"Bringing Jurassic Park to your home, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Canada's most exciting team. Comprising twenty-five chapters to mark the team's twenty-five years, We the North celebrates the biggest moments of the quarter-century--from Vince Carter's amazing display at the dunk competition to the play-off runs, the major trades, the Raptors' incredible fans, including Nav Bhatia and Drake, and of course the challenges that marked the route to the championship-clinching Game 6 that brought the whole country to a standstill. We the North: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors tells the story of Canada's most exciting team, charting their rise from a sporting oddity in a hockey-mad country to the status they hold today as the reigning NBA champions and national heroes"--
- Subjects: Toronto Raptors (Basketball team);
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- Frying Plantain : stories / by Reid-Benta, Zalika,1990-author.;
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- Subjects: Short stories.; Jamaican Canadians;
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- The Ward uncovered : the archaeology of everyday life / by Lorinc, John,1963-editor.; McClelland, Michael,1951-editor.; Taylor, Tatum,editor.; Martelle, Holly,1969-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references."An archaeological dig uncovers the secret history of Toronto's long-forgotten first immigrant neighbourhood. In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall--a site designated to become a major new court house. What they discovered was the rich buried history of an enclave that was part of The Ward-- that dense, poor, but vibrant 'arrival city' that took shape between the 1840s and the 1950s. Home to waves of immigrants and refugees--Irish, African-Americans, Italians, eastern European Jews, and Chinese--The Ward was stigmatized for decades by Toronto's politicians and residents, and eventually razed to make way for New City Hall. The archaeologists who excavated the lot, led by co-editor Holly Martelle, discovered almost half a million artifacts--a spectacular collection of household items, tools, toys, shoes, musical instruments, bottles, industrial objects, food scraps, luxury items, and even a pre-contact Indigenous projectile point. Martelle's team also unearthed the foundations of a nineteenth-century Black church, a Russian synagogue, early-twentieth-century factories, cisterns, privies, wooden drains, and even row houses built by formerly enslaved African Americans. Following on the heels of the immensely popular The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood, which told the stories of some of the people who lived there, The Ward Uncovered digs up the tales of things, using these well-preserved artifacts to tell a different set of stories about life in this long-forgotten and much-maligned neighbourhood."--
- Subjects: Neighborhoods; Immigrants; Excavations (Archaeology);
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- The only average guy : inside the uncommon world of Rob Ford / by Filion, John,1950-author.;
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- Subjects: Ford, Rob, 1969-; Mayors;
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- Fifteen dogs : an apologue / by Alexis, André,1957-author.;
A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks.
- Subjects: Didactic fiction.; Allegories.; Dogs;
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- Tales from the Toronto Blue Jays dugout : a collection of the greatest Blue Jays stories ever told / by Prime, Jim.;
Includes bibliographical references.From the club's inception in the 1970s to today, sportswriter Jim Prime captures all of the best moments in Blue Jays history.LSC
- Subjects: Toronto Blue Jays (Baseball team); Toronto Blue Jays (Baseball team);
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- Let darkness bury the dead / by Jennings, Maureen,author.;
"Canada's premier author of historical mystery fiction returns with a brand new and highly anticipated Murdoch Mystery, with an older and wiser Detective Murdoch. It is November 1917. The Great War is grinding on, chewing up young men by the thousands. Initially, in the loyal Dominion of Canada, people are mostly eager to support the Motherland and fight for the Empire. Men perceived as slackers or cowards are shunned. But the carnage is horrendous and with enforced conscription, the enthusiasm for war is dimming. William Murdoch is a widower, a senior detective who, thanks to the new temperance laws, spends his time tracking down bootleggers and tipplers; most unsatisfying. His wife, Amy, died giving birth to their second child, a girl who lived only a few hours more. Murdoch, racked by grief, withdrew from four-year-old, Jack. This he regrets and would dearly love to make up for his negligence. As we enter the story, Jack, now twenty-one, has returned from France after being wounded and gassed. It is soon apparent that he is deeply troubled and is bound by shared secrets to another wounded former soldier, Percy McKinnon. Murdoch suddenly has much more serious crimes than rum-running on his hands. The night after Jack and McKinnon arrive home, a young man is found beaten to death in the impoverished area of Toronto known as the Ward. Soon after, Murdoch has to deal with a tragic suicide, also a young man. Two more attacks follow in quick succession. The only common denominator is that all of the men were exempted from conscription. Increasingly worried that Jack knows more than he is letting on, Murdoch must solve these crimes before more innocents lose their lives."--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Murdoch, William (Fictitious character); Police;
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