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The Torontonians : a novel
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ISBN: 128286615X 9786612866159 0773575685 9780773575684 9780773533240 0773533249 0773578854 Year: 2007 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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The arrival, one sunny morning, of pale green wall-to-wall carpeting for the living room is the crowning jewel in Karen Whitney's long-anticipated transformation of her house into a beautiful home, renovated to the exacting standards of her own impeccable taste. The banal finality of this event triggers an introspective voyage through the events of her life and how she became who she is: wife of business executive Rick, citizen of the suburb of Rowanwood, mother to two accomplished daughters in university. Before Betty Friedan coined the term feminine mystique, The Torontonians told a classic feminist story of suburban ennui and existential self-discovery, tracing a detailed portrait of femininity in the 1950s through the eyes of its perceptive and thoughtful heroine. The book is also a unique contemporary meditation on community and social ties from a time when Canada's major cities were just beginning to spread out into suburban sprawl.

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Feminism --- Toronto (Ont.)

Toronto sketches 4 : "the way we were"
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ISBN: 9786611962463 155488084X 1281962465 9781554880843 9781459713680 1459713680 1550022482 9781550022483 6611962468 9781281962461 Year: 1995 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Oxford, England : Dundurn Press,

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These are collections of Mike Filey's best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, ""The Way We Were.""

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Toronto (Ont.) --- History.

More Toronto sketches : "the way we were"
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ISBN: 1281962260 155488232X 1459713753 9786611962265 9781554882328 9781459713758 1550022016 9781550022018 Year: 1993 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario ; Oxford : Dundurn Press Limited,

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These are collections of Mike Filey's best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, ""The Way We Were.""

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Toronto (Ont.) --- History.

Toronto sketches 5 : "the way we were"
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ISBN: 1554880858 9786611969660 1281969664 9781554880850 9781459713307 1459713303 155002292X 9781550022926 Year: 1997 Publisher: Toronto ; Oxford : Dundurn Press,

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These are collections of Mike Filey's best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, ""The Way We Were.""

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Toronto (Ont.) --- History.


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Making the scene
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ISBN: 1442661992 144268710X 9781442661998 9781442687103 9781442641525 1442641525 9781442610712 1442610719 Year: 2011 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press

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"Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca. It narrates the hip Village's development from its early coffee house days, when folksingers such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell flocked to the scene, to its tumultuous, drug-fuelled final months. A flashpoint for hip youth, politicians, parents, and journalists alike, Yorkville was also a battleground over identity, territory, and power. Stuart Henderson explores how this neighbourhood came to be regarded as an alternative space both as a geographic area and as a symbol of hip Toronto in the cultural imagination. Through recently unearthed documents and underground press coverage, Henderson pays special attention to voices that typically aren't heard in the story of Yorkville - including those of women, working class youth, business owners, and municipal authorities. Through a local history, Making the Scene offers new, exciting ways to think about the phenomenon of counterculture and urban manifestations of a hip identity as they have emerged in cities across North America and beyond."--Pub. desc.


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The many rooms of this house
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ISBN: 1487510616 1487510608 9781487510602 9781487510619 9781487500276 1487500270 1487520174 9781487520175 Year: 2017 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo London

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"Places of worship are the true building blocks of communities where people of various genders, age, and class interact with each other on a regular basis. These places are also rallying points for immigrants, helping them make the transition to a new, and often hostile environment. The Many Rooms of this House is a story about the rise and decline of religion in Toronto over the past 160 years. Unlike other studies that concentrate on specific denominations, or ecclesiastical politics, Roberto Perin's ecumenical approach focuses on the physical places of worship and the local clergy and congregants that gather there. Perin's timely and nuanced analysis reveals how the growing wealth of the city stimulated congregations to compete with one another over the size, style, materials, and decoration of their places of worship. However, the rise of individualism has negatively affected these same congregations leading to multiple church closings, communal breakdown, and redevelopments. Perin's fascinating work is a lens to understanding how this once overwhelmingly Protestant city became a symbol of diversity."--


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Leading the Modern University : York University's Presidents on Continuity and Change, 1974-2014
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ISBN: 1442617624 1442617616 9781442617612 9781442648753 1442648759 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"Founded in 1959, York University is now the second largest university in Ontario and third largest university in Canada. However, starting in the 1970s the success of the university was far from guaranteed. Leading the Modern University documents the challenges and solutions that five successive university presidents (H. Ian Macdonald, Harry Arthurs, Susan Mann, Lorna Marsden, and Mamdouh Shoukri) encountered from the very early 1970s up to 2014. This book is the rare occurrence where a series of university presidents describe and analyze the challenges they faced regarding financing, morale crises, and succession. With each president contributing a chapter, covering her or his own years in office, Leading the Modern University reveals that large public institutions have internal dynamics and external forces that supersede any individual leader's years in office. This is a case study for those interested in organizational change as seen by the leadership of a major public institution during a dynamic period in higher education."--

Sojourners and settlers
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ISBN: 1282045431 9786612045431 1442680067 9781442680067 0802004520 0802072402 9780802072405 9780802004529 Year: 1995 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. Multicultural History Society of Ontario

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Macedonians started immigrating to Canada in the late 1800s, yet the community has never had its history recorded - until now. Lillian Petroff, in her book Sojourners and Settlers, has remedied that omission in an informative and enjoyable manner. She charts the settlement patterns, living and working conditions, religious life, and political activity of Macedonians in Toronto from the early twentieth century to the Second World War.The first Macedonians who came to Toronto lived an almost isolated existence in a distinct set of neighbourhoods that were centred around their church, stores, and boarding houses. They moved with little awareness of the city-at-large since the needs of their families in the old country and political events in their homeland were much more important to them than developments in Toronto and Canada. A greater interest in Canada began to take root only after Macedonians began to think less like sojourners and more like settlers. This transition was often accompanied by a move from bachelorhood to marriage and from industrial labour to individual entrepreneurial activities.Employing a wealth of primary written and oral source material, Petroff tells the remarkable story of the men and women who laid the foundation for what would become a significant community in the Toronto area, which today represents the largest community of Macedonians outside the Balkans.


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Jewish family
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ISBN: 0253033128 9780253033109 0253033101 9780253033086 9780253033123 9780253033093 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana

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York University : the way must be tried
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ISBN: 1282867695 9786612867699 0773577246 9780773577244 0773534164 9780773534162 9781282867697 6612867698 Year: 2009 Publisher: Montreal : ©2009 Published for York University by McGill-Queen's University Press,

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In York University: The Way Must Be Tried, Michiel Horn weaves archival research and interviews into a compelling narrative, documenting the development of an institution committed to helping professors and studies reach across disciplinary boundaries. He covers the challenges York has faced through the years - from the 1963 faculty "revolt," to the troubled search for a successor to founding president Murray Ross, to the budgetary problems that led to the resignation of President David Slater, as well as its many innovations and triumphs - including bilingualism at Glendon College, Osgoode Hall Law School's Parkdale legal clinic, and Canada's first concurrent Bachelor of Education program. The philosophies that guide the faculties of administrative studies, fine arts, and environmental studies, and the ground-breaking research done in science and engineering are explored in detail.

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