Glenn Cochrane's Toronto

Glenn Cochrane's Toronto
Author: Glenn Cochrane
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 1550227122

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Telling tales and unearthing a history you won't find in tourist guides, this humorous book focuses on the quirky characters of Toronto.

Canada

Canada
Author: Mike Myers
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0385689276

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Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time. But as he says: "no description of me is truly complete without saying I'm a Canadian." He has often winked and nodded to Canada in his outrageously accomplished body of work, but now he turns the spotlight full-beam on his homeland. His hilarious and heartfelt new book is part memoir, part history and pure entertainment. It is Mike Myers' funny and thoughtful analysis of what makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him. His relationship with his home and native land continues to deepen and grow, he says. In fact, American friends have actually accused him of enjoying being Canadian--and he's happy to plead guilty as charged. A true patriot who happens to be an expatriate, Myers is in a unique position to explore Canada from within and without. With this, his first book, Mike brings his love for Canada to the fore at a time when the country is once again looking ahead with hope and national pride. Canada is a wholly subjective account of Mike's Canadian experience. Mike writes, "Some might say, 'Why didn't you include this or that?' I say there are 35 million stories waiting to be told in this country, and my book is only one of them." This beautifully designed book is illustrated in colour (and not color) throughout, and its visual treasures include personal photographs and Canadiana from the author's own collection.

The Beach

The Beach
Author: Jean Cochrane
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781459652194

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Glenn and Jean Cochrane have lived in Toronto's Beach area for thirty - eight years - which sounds like a lifetime but really leaves them as a relative newcomers. Like many of the area's residents, the Cochranes are convinced that once someone moves to the Beach, they'll never leave. From Kingston Road right down to the Boardwalk, the Beach is a Toronto oasis. Here, the boardwalk stretches along the lake creating a calm, outdoor atmosphere unlike any other part of the city. The streets and shops are busy with pedestrians, dogs, and strollers, and in the summers are packed with people from all over: picnickers, sunbathers, and outdoor sports enthusiasts. The Beach is the perfect introduction to the life and history of this unique area of Toronto. This is the Cochranes' personal take on everything they have learned about the area over the past four decades, and through their words and collected photos, readers will share in their delightful discoveries.

Undressed Toronto

Undressed Toronto
Author: Dale Barbour
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0887559514

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Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization in the nineteenth century destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront. Instead, we find that these areas were co-opted and transformed into recreation spaces: often with the acceptance of indulgent city officials. While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing needed to be transformed from the predominantly nude male privilege that it had been in the mid-nineteenth century into an activity that women and men could participate in together. That transformation required negotiating and establishing rules for how people would dress and behave when they bathed and setting aside or creating distinct environments for bathing. Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. It explores anxieties about modernity and masculinity and the weight of nostalgia in public perceptions and municipal regulation of public bathing in five Toronto environments that showcase distinct moments in the transition from vernacular bathing to the public beach: the city’s central waterfront, Toronto Island, the Don River, the Humber River, and Sunnyside Beach on Toronto’s western shoreline.

The Beaches

The Beaches
Author: Richard White
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2024-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487539371

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The Beaches is one of Toronto’s best known and most admired neighbourhoods. It has no striking works of architecture or splendid public spaces, no must-see galleries or public institutions, and no associations with historic events or great celebrities – the sort of things that create neighbourhood reputations and draw visitors. It does, however, have an attractive character, and it is this character that Richard White seeks to understand, offering insights into how it came to be and why it has endured. With an eye to the broader historical context, The Beaches recounts the neighbourhood’s initial colonial settlement, its development as a lakeside recreational community in the late nineteenth century, its emergence as a streetcar suburb after 1900, its maturation in the 1920s and 1930s, its relative decline in the 1950s and 1960s, and its revival in the 1970s and beyond. Utilizing a wide range of archival records, including council minutes, plans of subdivision, newspapers, public land records, city directories, assessment rolls, and historical photographs – as well as the present-day landscape – The Beaches reveals the various forces, public and private, local and international, that shaped this cherished urban neighbourhood.

John P.L. Roberts, the CBC/Radio Canada, and Art Music

John P.L. Roberts, the CBC/Radio Canada, and Art Music
Author: Friedemann Sallis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1527561003

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This book examines the impact of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio Canada (CBC/SRC) on the development of art music in Canada during the broadcaster’s first fifty years (1936-1986). In so doing, it investigates the achievement of one man: John Peter Lee Roberts. Born in Australia, he arrived in Canada in 1955, and, over the next thirty years, he worked tirelessly as a producer, administrator and adviser at the state broadcaster to bring the music of Canada to the world and the world of music to Canadians. Roberts also played a crucially important role in commissioning, disseminating and promoting new music by Canadian composers.

Winnipeg Beach

Winnipeg Beach
Author: Dale Barbour
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2012-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0887554342

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During the first half of the twentieth century, Winnipeg Beach proudly marketed itself as the Coney Island of the West. Located just north of Manitoba’s bustling capital, it drew 40,000 visitors a day and served as an important intersection between classes, ethnic communities, and perhaps most importantly, between genders. In Winnipeg Beach, Dale Barbour takes us into the heart of this turn-of-the-century resort area and introduces us to some of the people who worked, played and lived in the resort. Through photographs, interviews, and newspaper clippings he presents a lively history of this resort area and its surprising role in the evolution of local courtship and dating practices, from the commoditization of the courting experience by the Canadian Pacific Railway's “Moonlight Specials,” through the development of an elaborate amusement area that encouraged public dating, and to its eventual demise amid the moral panic over sexual behaviour during the 1950s and ‘60s.

Civic Administration

Civic Administration
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1088
Release: 1965
Genre: Municipal government
ISBN:

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