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Griffin House and Fieldcote Museum
Inside Hamilton's Museums
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination. In this special excerpt we visit two sites, Griffin House and the Fieldcote Memorial Park and Museum. Griffin House honours one of Ancaster's...
by John Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Inside the Museums views Torontos heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Colborne Lodge, well known to visitors to Torontos High Park. The home of prolific architect, surveyor, and engineer John...
Celebrating Canada
Decorating with History in a Contemporary Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
A visual journey showcasing how history can make a house a home, a reminder of the strength of character and ingenuity entrenched in Canada’s history.
Inspired by the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation — the same year recognizing 375 years of settlement in Montreal — Quebec antiques...
Hidden in the Enemy's Sight
Resisting the Third Reich from Within
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939. After a great deal of hardship, he joins the Polish Resistance and eventually, in 1941, is sent to Dresden, Germany, to take up Underground activities there. Armed with false papers, he works...
by Henry Scadding
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1987
In 1873, Henry Scadding, former rector of Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity, wrote the definitive history of early Toronto. His detailed portrait of the streets, customs and prominent citizens is a goldmine of sights and insights into a Toronto long-since disappeared.
Toronto of Old was...
Getting What You Deserve
The Adventures of Goldhawk Fights Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
For 12 years Dale Goldhawk journeyed through the streets of Canada and into the hearts of thousands of Canadians. Written in Goldhawk's punchy, to-the-point style, this book links his life as a journalist and advocate with those who were his clients. For the first time, he reveals the background battles...
by Iris Nowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
This book pays tribute to 14 women who donated millions of dollars to causes close to their hearts. Iris Nowell is the author of five books. Writing her 1996 book, Women Who Give Away Millions, has given her a solid foundation of philanthropy, the not-for-profit sector, and the wealthy. She has also...
Toronto Sketches
The Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992
Mike Filey's "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper's most popular features. In Toronto Sketches Filey brings together some of the best of his columns.
Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto...
A Toronto Album
Glimpses of the City That Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Mike Filey's collection of pictures of Toronto from the earliest days of photography had gained a reputation as one of the most interesting visual archives of the city's history. This classic look at old Toronto portrays scenes of public life from 1860 to 1950, illustrating how dramatically the urban...
by Mike Filey
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most popular...
Once Upon a Time in Paradise
Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
When sound arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s, Canadians were already holding some of the most important roles in the motion picture industry. Louis B. Mayer, from New Brunswick, was boss at MGM; Jack Warner, from Ontario, was head of Warner Bros. Studio; and Mack Sennett, from Quebec, was still...
Canadians in Golden Age Hollywood 2-Book Bundle
Once Upon a Time in Paradise / Stardust and Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Revisit Hollywood’s Golden Age with insider Charles Foster, who befriended the many Canadian stars that peppered the film sets. Foster reveals the stories of the amazing influence Canadians had in the early days of the film biz.
Includes:
Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood
A...
The Last to Die
Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas, and the End of Capital Punishment in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Although they committed separate crimes, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin met their deaths on the same scaffold at Toronto's Don Jail on December 11, 1962. They were the last two people executed in Canada, but surprisingly little was known about them until now. This is the first book to uncover the...
by Mike Filey
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Mike Filey brings the stories of Toronto, its people and places, to life.
Mike Filey’s column “The Way We Were” first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the paper’s first edition hit newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has...