Ontario History articles from September 2008

Ontario History archives from September 2008

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Death investigation manuals in Ontario 1863 - 1894.(Reforming the Coroner)
September 22, 2008... Introduction This paper analyses coroner's manuals in the nineteenth-century provinces of Canada West and Ontario. What follows is not a study of the individual men who investigated suspicious deaths and then held inquests over the bodies,...

Freshwater Heritage: a history of sail on the Great Lakes, (1670-1918).(Book review)
September 22, 2008... By Don Bamford. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2007. xviii + 301 pages. $34.95 softcover. ISBN 1 -897045-20-6. (www.dundurn.com) Some of the best books on Great Lakes history have been written not by professional historians but by writers...

Capital in Flames: the American attack on York, 1813.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... By Robert Malcomson. Montreal: Robin Brass Studio, 2007. xxii + 489 pages. $39.95 hardbound. ISBN 1-896941-53-2 (www.rbstudiobooks.com) Robert Malcomson, author of two other War of 1812 volumes--on the naval war of Lake Ontario and on the...

Narrow Gauge Through the Bush.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... By Rod Clarke. Streetsville, Ontario: Privately published, 2007. 400 pages. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN 0-9784406-0-2. (www.cvrco.com) Narrow Gauge Through the Bush is an immense work of Ontario railroad history. Throughout more than 370...

Craft capitalism: craftworkers and early industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario 1840-1872.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... By Robert B. Kristofferson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. x + 326 pages. $29.95 softcover. ISBN 0-8020-9408-7 (www.utppublishing.com) This monograph is clearly written, with a core argument that is developed sequentially...

Canadian Churches, an architectural history.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... By Peter Richardson and Douglas Richardson, with photographs by John DeVisser. Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2007. 438 pages. $85.00 hardcover. ISBN 1-55407-239-5 (www.fireflybooks.com) Canadian Churches tells us about the rich...

New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... By Janet B. Friskney. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xvii + 284 pp. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN 0-8020-9746-0 (www.utppublishing.com) It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of Toronto publisher Mc-Clelland and...

My life in crime and other academic adventures.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... By Martin L. Friedland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xii + 513 pages. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN 0-8020-9790-3 (www.utppublishing.com) This book will probably have a mixed reception, largely because the author is writing for two...

The great adventure. 100 years at The Arts & Letters Club.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... By Margaret McBurney. Toronto: The Arts and Letters Club, 2007. xv + 191 pages $ 50.000 hardcover. ISBN 0-9694588-2-1 (www.artsandlettersclub.ca) Anyone who never attended Bobby Orr Collegiate won't scramble to read its yearbook. An...