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Nothing short of a miracle!(Ontario Historical Society)
September 22, 2008... One hundred and ten years ago, in June of 1899, a pamphlet was launched that became the foundation for one of the oldest historical journals in Canada. Originally called Papers and Records and after 1947 continued as Ontario History, this publication was just one of many new initiatives...
The sideways March: Mackenzie King's monumental quest, 1893-1940.(Report)
September 22, 2008... William Lyon Mackenzie King knew how to work up a grand occasion and a grand monument too. As a very junior minister in 1905, he had engineered the enshrinement adjacent to Parliament Hill of his heroically dead roommate, Bert Harper. He had not only raised the funds and selected the sculptor...
Sedition in wartime Ontario; The trials and imprisonment of Isaac Bainbridge, 1917-1918.
September 22, 2008... Dissent is rarely tolerated during wartime. In Ontario, as elsewhere. in Canada, the state used various means to curb and suppress dissent during the First World War. One powerful tool was the law of sedition. This article examines one particularly notable prosecution, the trials and...
The premier versus the aristocrat; Francis Hincks, John G. Vansittart, and voters in the Oxford-general Election of 1851.(Report)
September 22, 2008... They axed me how I was going to vote. I said I would vote for--; and as soon as the word was out of my mouth the blood was out of my nose.
(Zorra-Township elector on the 1851 Oxford-general election) (1)
In December 1851 the Hon. Francis Hincks defeated his Tory opponent, John George...
Elephant hunters inspecting complete side walks; Engineering expertise in Toronto's age of municipal reform.(Case study)
September 22, 2008... Introduction
In March of 1855 the City of Toronto advertised for a "City Engineer and Surveyor," receiving several applications including one from Sandford Fleming, later famous for his work on the transcontinental railway line and the creation of standard time. He lost out, however, by...