Download Full eBooks in PDF
Houses Of Old Toronto Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Houses Of Old Toronto book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Tom Cruickshank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1552977315
Featuring 250 houses and more than 400 color photographs, this book explores the Toronto's older homes illustrating more than 20 architectural styles from ten distinct neighborhoods.
Author : William Roberts,Mary Anne Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : 0889320632
Author : John Lorinc,Michael McClelland,Ellen Scheinberg,Tatum Taylor
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770564190
From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others – landed in ‘The Ward’ in the centre of downtown. Deemed a slum, the area was crammed with derelict housing and ‘ethnic’ businesses; it was razed in the 1950s to make way for a grand civic plaza and modern city hall. Archival photos and contributions from a wide variety of voices finally tell the story of this complex neighbourhood and the lessons it offers about immigration and poverty in big cities. Contributors include historians, politicians, architects and descendents of Ward residents on subjects such as playgrounds, tuberculosis, bootlegging and Chinese laundries. With essays by Howard Akler, Denise Balkissoon, Steve Bulger, Jim Burant, Arlene Chan, Alina Chatterjee, Cathy Crowe, Richard Dennis, Ruth Frager, Richard Harris, Gaetan Heroux, Edward Keenan, Bruce Kidd, Mark Kingwell, Jack Lipinsky, John Lorinc, Shawn Micallef, Howard Moscoe, Laurie Monsebraaten, Terry Murray, Ratna Omidvar, Stephen Otto, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Michael Posner, Michael Redhill, Victor Russell, Ellen Scheinberg, Sandra Shaul, Myer Siemiatycki, Mariana Valverde, Thelma Wheatley, Kristyn Wong-Tam and Paul Yee, among others.
Author : Tom Cruickshank
Publisher : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015042053366
An exploration of home architecture from the late 18th to the early 20th century in Southern Ontario, combines detailed photography with a lively and appreciative text. Rural and inner city Ontario has a good number of restored homes - these are the best.
Author : J. Timperlake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : UOM:39015020833813
Author : Liz Lundell
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022852722
The Estates of old Toronto is a bittersweet look at a less harried age and at the great properties that were ultimately swallowed up by Canada's largest modern city.
Author : Don Loucks,Leslie Valpy
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459745568
Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Despite their value as urban property, Toronto’s workers’ cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life. Through the stories of eight families who lived in these “Modest Hopes,” authors Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of Toronto’s working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville, Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.
Author : Henry Scadding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : OXFORD:N10551868
Author : Don Loucks,Leslie Valpy
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459745568
Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Despite their value as urban property, Toronto’s workers’ cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life. Through the stories of eight families who lived in these “Modest Hopes,” authors Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of Toronto’s working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville, Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.
Author : Austin Seton Thompson
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1550463608
Few houses in the city have such an interesting history. Located on Davenport Hill to the east of Casa Loma, Spadina was built in 1818 as a country house some distance from town. In her preface to the book's first edition, Edith Firth of the Metropolitan Toronto Library wrote, "Metropolitan Toronto has swept past the property, leaving it an anachronistic oasis in the heart of a changing city.... It remains, however, a rare survival of a former age, wearing its years with grace and dignity. Its story, and the story of those who lived there, is part of the history of Toronto."
Author : Stephanie Chambers,Jane Farrow,Maureen Fitzgerald,Ed Jackson,John Lorinc,Tim McCaskell,Rebecca Sheffield,Tatum Taylor,Rahim Thawer
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770565197
Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the intense diversity of the city itself, and Any Other Way is an eclectic history of how these groups have transformed Toronto since the 1960s. From pioneering activists to show-stopping parades, Any Other Way looks at how queer communities have gone from existing in the shadows to shaping our streets.
Author : Walker House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : 0665894007
Author : Edward Relph
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812209181
Extending a hundred miles across south-central Ontario, Toronto is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North America, with the highest population density and the busiest expressway. At its core old Toronto consists of walkable neighborhoods and a financial district deeply connected to the global economy. Newer parts of the region have downtown centers linked by networks of arterial roads and expressways, employment districts with most of the region's jobs, and ethnically diverse suburbs where English is a minority language. About half the population is foreign-born—the highest proportion in the developed world. Population growth because of immigration—almost three million in thirty years—shows few signs of abating, but recently implemented regional strategies aim to contain future urban expansion within a greenbelt and to accommodate growth by increasing densities in designated urban centers served by public transit. Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region traces the city's development from a British colonial outpost established in 1793 to the multicultural, polycentric metropolitan region of today. Though the original grid survey and much of the streetcar city created a century ago have endured, they have been supplemented by remarkable changes over the past fifty years in the context of economic and social globalization. Geographer Edward Relph's broad-stroke portrait of the urban region draws on the ideas of two renowned Torontonians—Jane Jacobs and Marshall McLuhan—to provide an interpretation of how its current forms and landscapes came to be as they are, the values they embody, and how they may change once again.
Author : Doug Taylor
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781911595038
Lost Toronto is the latest in the series from Pavilion Books that traces the cherished places in a city that time, progress and fashion swept aside before the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker's ball. As well as celebrating forgotten architectural treasures, Lost Toronto looks at buildings that have changed use, vanished under a wave of new construction or been drastically transformed.Beautiful archival photographs and informative text allows the reader to take a nostalgic journey back in time to visit some of the lost treasures that the city let slip through its grasp. Organised chronologically, starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, the book features much-loved Toronto institutions that have been consigned to history. Losses include: King’s College, Holland House, Hotel Hanlan, St. Patrick’s Market, The Grand Opera House, Metropolitan Methodist Church, Old Union Station, St. Andrew’s Market, Yonge Street Arcade, Sunnyside Beach Amusement Park, Shea’s Hippodrome, S. S. Cayuga, High Park Mineral Baths, Tivoli Theatre, Riverdale Zoo, Odeon Carlton, Cyclorama on Front Street, Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade, Colonial Tavern, Sam the Record Man, The World’s Biggest Book Store.
Author : Mark Fram,Nancy Byrtus,Michael McClelland,Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1552450651
Let's say you want to know which famous Canadian poet lived in the Waverley Hotel for seven years, constantly changing rooms in fear of RCMP bugs. Or you live at 44 Walmer and want to know what on earth they were thinking with those balconies. Or you want to know what's behind (or underneath!) that giant O hanging over Harbord at Spadina. These things were troubling us, too, so we assembled East/West: A Guide to Where People Live in Downtown Toronto. East/West is a guided tour of old stories and fresh perspectives on the architecture and planning of housing and urban development in central Toronto - including both success stories and perennial problems. With specially prepared maps and over 120 photos, and essays - written by 65 of our best architects, historians and planners - exploring the history and development of neighbourhoods and of the individual buildings within them, East/West is a portrait of Toronto like no other. East/West is not your average city guide. It'll take you down alleyways you've never heard of, show you buildings you've never seen, offer you that bit of history you've never been able to access. It tells you how Toronto has tried to house the homeless over the years, how the waterfront evolved (or devolved, depending on how you look at it), and the character of different neighbourhoods has changed. FromAnnex abodes to Rosedale residences, this book will introduce you to a Toronto you only thought you knew.