A History of the University of Toronto, 1827-1927
Author: William Stewart Wallace
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 390
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Author: William Stewart Wallace
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Toronto
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin L. Friedland
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 825
ISBN-13: 1442615362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone who attended the University or who is interested in the growth of Canada's intellectual heritage will enjoy this compelling and magisterial history.
Author: Frederick H. Armstrong
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1988-12-01
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1770700617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA City in the Making examines certain of the events that took place in the nineteenth century Toronto, paying particular attention to those who carved a thriving metropolis out of the frontier post that was the town of York.
Author: Donald B. Smith
Publisher: Coteau Books
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1550504703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in Toronto to a Methodist family and raised in Wingham, Ontario, William Henry Jackson attended the University of Toronto before moving to Prince Albert, where he began to sympathize with the Métis and their struggle against the Canadian government. Jackson became personal secretary to Louis Riel, was captured by the Canadian militia during the 1885 Resistance, and was convicted of treason and sentenced to an insane asylum near Winnipeg. When he escaped to the United States, joining the labour union movement, he told everyone that he was Métis and modified his name to the Métis-sounding Honoré Jaxon. After a lively career as a politically radical public figure in Chicago - where he befriended, among others, the revolutionary architect Frank Lloyd Wright - Jaxon eventually moved to New York City to attempt life as a real estate developer. His ongoing project was to collect as many books, newspapers and pamphlets relating to the Métis people as possible, in an attempt to establish a library for their use. However, he was evicted from his basement apartment at the age of ninety. His entire collection was dispersed, most of it to the New York City garbage dump, the remainder sold. He died a month later, in early 1952. Honoré Jaxon: Prairie Visionary completes Donald Smith's "Prairie Imposters" popular history trilogy concerning three prominent figures who all pretended a native ancestry they did not, in fact, possess - Honoré Jaxon, Grey Owl, and Long Lance.
Author: Boston Public Library
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 902
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard A. Jarrell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1988-12-15
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1487590547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discovery in 1987 of a supernova brought to world attention the excellence of Canadian astronomers. As Richard Jarrell explains in this book, the path to excellence has been a long one. Although astronomy has been practised in this country from the earliest days of exploration, its professional status has slowly evolved in much the same way as has the nation itself. In the period of exploration and early settlement, the practical needs of navigators and surveyors were foremost. Astronomical practitioners – for many used astronomy but few were professional or even amateur astronomers – came from elsewhere. Only when Canada was a settled colony, halfway through the nineteenth century, did its own scientific needs emerge. By the century's end Canadian astronomy, socially and institutionally unique and independent, had been established: astronomers born and trained in Canada worked in their own organized and funded institutions. In the twentieth century the story is dominated by the Dominion Observatory, and, in higher education, the University of Toronto. The federal government remained the biggest actor, in employment and funding, first through the observatories, then the National Research Council. The expansion of universities greatly broadened the scope of Canadian astronomy, while the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, local clubs, literature, planetariums, and museums kept the public informed. By the 1960s Canadian astronomy, though small in size, was as sophisticated as any in the world.
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 960
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