Ontario History articles from March 2008

Ontario History archives from March 2008

"The threat of being Morganized will not deter us": William Lyon Mackenzie, Freemasonry and the Morgan affair.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... William Lyon Mackenzie is famous (or infamous) in Canadian history as an outspoken journalist, a radical politician, and the instigator of the ill-fated 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada. Although much has been written about him, one incident in...

Cars and cottages: the automotive transformation of Ontario's summer home tradition.(Ontario, Canada)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... In the mid-1950s, workers from the Ontario Department of Highways blasted away pine trees and granite and built the first paved highway between Port Severn and Parry Sound. (1) Hope Miller, then a girl of thirteen, remembers her family being...

"Must everything give way to the automobile?" The Ancaster and Dundas expressway disputes in Ontario, 1967-1968.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... In the late 1960s a controversy that has since largely disappeared from the historical record dominated local politics in the two southwestern Ontario towns of Ancaster and Dundas. The fervour spread from these areas to municipal and...

The Crown Lands Department, the government, and the settlers of McNab township, Canada West.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... In October 1841, Archibald McNab, chief of the Scottish highland clan of that name, in a petition to the governor of Canada, suggested that he be allowed to "examine into the rights of the parties cutting timber" and to identify to the...

Don't Give up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Don't Give up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812 By Donald R. Hickey. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2006. xxix + 430 pp. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN 1-896941-45-5. www.rbstudiobooks.com Readers of Ontario History may recall that the CBC's...

The Wartime Letters of Leslie & Cecil Frost, 1915-1919.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Wartime Letters of Leslie & Cecil Frost, 1915-1919 Edited by R.B. Fleming. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. xxxvi + 379 pp. $38.95 hardcover. ISBN 1-55458-000-5. Leslie and Cecil Frost were two of over 630,000...

Places of Last Resort: The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c.1910-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Places of Last Resort: The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c.1910-1940 By J. David Wood. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 264 pp. $27.95 softcover. ISBN 0-7735-3097-3. The...

The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Metis Identities and Family Histories.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Metis Identities and Family Histories Edited by Ute Lischke and David T. McNab. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. xiii + 383 pp. $34.95 softcover. ISBN 0-88920-523-X. Since...

A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970 By Catherine Gidney. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. xxvi + 240 pp. $75.00 hardcover. ISBN 0-7735-2805-9. To...

Toronto Sprawls: A History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Toronto Sprawls: A History By Lawrence Solomon. Toronto: University of Toronto Centre for Public Management Monograph Series, 2007. xix + 120 pp. $19.95 softcover. ISBN 0-7727-8618-0. Neoliberal urban scholars approach the question of...

Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Old Canadian Cemeteries Places of Memory By Jane Irwin, with photographs by John de Visser. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books, 2007. 320 pp. $75.00 hardcover. ISBN 1-55407-146-1. (www.fireflybooks.com) The concept of a...