Title & Author:

The Ward : the life and loss of Toronto's first immigrant neighbourhood / edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg and Tatum Taylor.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Toronto, ON : Coach House Books, [2015]
©2015

Description:

319 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Title and statement of repsonsibility taken from cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / John Lorinc -- Searching for the old Ward / Shawn Micallef -- No place like home / Howard Akler -- Before the Ward: Macaulaytown / Stephen A. Otto -- My grandmother the bootlegger / Howard Moscoe -- Against all odds: The Chinese laundry / Arlene Chan -- V-J Day / Arlene Chan -- Merle Foster's studio: 'A spot of enchantment' / Terry Murray -- Missionary work: the fight for Jewish souls / Ellen Scheinberg -- King of the War / Myer Siemiatycki -- Where the rich went for vice / Michael Redhill -- A fresh start: Black Toronto in the 19th century / Karolyn Smardz Frost -- Policing the Lord's Day / Mariana Valverde -- 'The maniac chinaman' / Edward Keenan -- Elsi's story / Patte Rosebank -- Lawren Harris's Ward period / Jim Burant -- 'Fool's paradise': Hastings' anti-slum crusade / John Lorinc -- Strange brew: the underground economy of 'blind pigs' / Ellen Scheinberg -- The Italian Consulate / Andrea Addario -- Excerpt: The Italians in Toronto / Emily P. Weaver -- Arthur Goss: documenting hardship / Stephen Bulger -- Fresh air: The fight against TB / Cathy Crowe -- The stone yard / Gaetan Heroux -- William James: Toronto's first photojournalist / Michael McClelland -- Timothy Eaton's stern fortifications / Michael Valpy -- Settling in: Central neighbourhood house / Ratna Omidvar & Ranjit Bhaskar -- Toronto's girl with the curls / Ellen Scheinberg -- Chinese cafés: survival and danger / Ellen Scheinberg & Paul Yee -- Defiance and divisions: the great Eaton's strike / Ruth A. Frager -- Elizabeth Street: what the city directories reveal / Denise Balkissoon -- Growing up on Walton Street / Cynthia MacDougall -- Revitalizing George Street: The Ward's lessons / Alina Chatterjee & Derek Ballantyne -- Taking care of business in the Ward / Ellen Scheinberg -- A 'magnificent dome': The great University Avenue synagogue / Jack Lipinsky -- Reading the Ward: the inevitablity of loss / Kim Storey & James Brown -- Toronto's first Little Italy / John Lorinc -- The Elizabeth Street playground, revisited / Bruce Kidd -- Divided loyaties / Sandra Shaul -- Crowded by any measure / John Lorinc -- A peddler and his cart: The Ward's rag trade / Deena Nathanson -- Toronto's original tenement: Wineberg Apartments / Richard Dennis -- An untimely death / Brian Banks -- Paper pushers / Ellen Scheinberg -- The BMR's wake-up call / Laurie Monsebraaten -- Rear houses: an exerpt from the report of the medical health officer / Charles J. Hastings -- Dr. Clarke's clinic / Thelma Wheatley -- Slum-free: the suburban ideal / Richard Harris -- The Glionna clan and Toronto's first Little Italy / John E. Zucchi -- 'The Hipp' / Michael Posner -- Before Yorkville / John Lorinc -- Public baths: schvitzing on Centre Avenue / Ellen Scheinberg -- Sex work and the Ward's bachelor society / Elise Chenier -- The health advocates: McKeown on Hastings / John Lorinc -- Remembering Toronto's first Chinatown / Kristyn Wong-Tam -- Tabula rasa / Mark Kingwell -- Unrealized renewal / J. David Hulchanski -- A short history of the 'civic square' expropriation / John Lorinc -- Storytelling is part of the story / Tatum Taylor -- How we think about what (little) survives / Patrick Cummins -- Institutional memory / Scott James & Victor Russell -- Alternative histories / Michael McClelland -- Toronto's ghost map.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

Details the history of Toronto's first immigrant neighbourhood, The Ward, bordered by College and Queen, University and Yonge.

Resources:
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9781552453117 (pbk.)
1552453111 (pbk.)

Subject:

Neighborhoods Ontario Toronto History.
Immigrants Ontario Toronto History.
Quartiers résidentiels Ontario Toronto Histoire.
Immigrants Ontario Toronto Histoire.
Immigrants.
Neighborhoods.
Ward (Toronto, Ont.) History.
Ward (Toronto, Ont.) Histoire.
Ontario Toronto.
(lcsh)Neighborhoods--Ontario--Toronto--History.
(lcsh)Immigrants--Ontario--Toronto--History.
(fast)Immigrants.
(fast)Neighborhoods.
(lcsh)Ward (Toronto, Ont.)--History.
(fast)Ontario--Toronto.
(fast)History.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Lorinc, John, 1963- author, editor.
McClelland, Michael, 1951- author, editor.
Scheinberg, Ellen, 1964- author, editor.
Taylor, Tatum, author, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 289764
Call No.: BIB 232387
Status: Available