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Author: John Denison
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780919822481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe perfect souvenir of Toronto's famous Casa Loma -- packed with historic facts and photograph
Author: Freeman, Bill
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 1459400275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating story of industrialist Sir Henry Pellatt and his lavish Toronto home
Author: Eric Wilson
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: 2005-10-24
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780006395447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWas it really the butler who did it? Or maybe it was the snoopymaid? Tom Austen and his sister Liz have just arrived at Casa Loma, the famouscastle in central Toronto. There to solve a mysterious disappearance and find alost treasure, the two young detectives discover that the old castle holds moresecrets than even they had bargained for. With plenty of suspects to keep readers guessing right to theend of this gripping mystery, The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma deliversaction and adventure along with a painless hit of Canadian history.
Author: Bill Freeman
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 2014-06-24
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 1459400348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautifully illustrated book tells the story of Casa Loma, Toronto's most famous historic site, and its owner, Sir Henry Pellatt. Casa Loma took 300 men three years to build at a cost of $3.5 million. Completed in 1914, the castle was enjoyed by Pellatt for only ten years before bankruptcy took it from his hands. Today, Casa Loma is owned and operated by the City of Toronto. This book includes a visual tour of the building as it is today, restored to its turn-of-the-century splendour. As well, author and historian Bill Freeman tells the colourful story of Pellatt's life, accompanied by a rich variety of archival images. Pellatt was an entrepreneurial and domineering Toronto financier with a central role in the city's financial life at the turn of the century. He lost his fortune and ended his days in very modest circumstances, but he left the city a dramatic landmark building. Author Bill Freeman takes readers on a full tour of this dramatic hillside castle, illustrated with full-colour photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo.
Author: Carlie Oreskovich
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kelly Rachelle Mathews
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1467138878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early 1900's a gentleman and financier named Sir Henry Mill Pellatt (builder of the famous 'Casa Loma' in Toronto) started to piece together several farms (1,214 acres) to create what he called Lake (or Lac) Marie Farm & Country Estate. The name Marie was to honor his first wife Lady Mary Pellatt (nee Dodgson). Designed to be a place of respite for high society, hunt events and highballs on the verandah (1911-1935) this land came into the ownership of a group of Basilian leaders who took this site of social indulgence and converted into "Marylake Agricultural School and Farm Settlement Association" (now 814 acres). On August 25, 1942, the Agricultural School sold to the Augustinian Father of Ontario (Inc.) and as such, Marylake Monastery, Retreat House and site of Pilgrimage was born.
Author: Marilyn M. Litvak
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1996-09-01
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1554881501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1876 to 1915, Edward James Lennox was a formidable force in Toronto’s architectural community. Many of his buildings are still landmarks in a city that continues to evolve. Born and educated in Toronto, Lennox looked to the past for inspiration but was never captured by it. His prototypical Annex houes on Madison Avenue, Old City Hall, and Casa Loma bear witness to his technical expertise and aesthetic sensibilities. Through text and illustrations, this volume tells the story of the a resolute architect whose vision helped shape an emerging city, and who in his time was called the "builder of Toronto." Edward James Lennox, "Builder of Toronto" is the first volume in the Canadian Master Architect series. Each publication will profile the work of an individual Canadian architect. The series editor is Marilyn M. Litvak.
Author: Matthew M. Reeve
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0228015677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading architect E.J. Lennox designed Casa Loma for the flamboyant Sir Henry Pellatt and Mary, Lady Pellatt as an enormous castellated mansion that overlooked the booming metropolis of Toronto. The first scholarly book dedicated to this Canadian landmark, Casa Loma situates the famous “house on the hill” within Toronto’s architectural, urban, and cultural history. Casa Loma was not only an outsized home for the self-appointed “Lord Toronto” but a statement of Canada’s association with empire, an assertion of the country’s British legacy. During and after the Pellatts’ occupation, Casa Loma was a major landmark, and it has since infiltrated the iconography and collective memory of the metropolis. The reception of Casa Loma, variously loved and abhorred by Torontonians, reflects many of Toronto’s major aspirations and anxieties about itself as a modern city. Across ten chapters, this book charts the history of Casa Loma from the purchase of the estate atop Davenport Ridge in 1903 and its construction from 1906, through to its sale and the dispersal of its contents in 1924, its subsequent life as a hotel, and finally its transformation into one of the city’s major entertainment venues. Casa Loma brings to light a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival images and documentation of the house’s visual and material culture, weaving together a textured account of the design, use, and life of this unique building over the course of the twentieth century.
Author: Lawren Harris
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781550960631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing to life a snapshot of early North American urbanization, Lawren Harris' modernist poetry and urban paintings are featured together for the first time in this unique historical journey. Including previously unpublished poems, this compendium offers a new view of his artistic period preceding the Group of Seven and presents an exciting window into Canadian urban space at the turn of the century. The juxtaposed poetry and paintings compliment each other to provide a unique view into the artistic workings as Harris confronted Toronto's cold underbelly--searching for a metaphor for the poverty that he encountered in the Ward's world.
