Inside the Museum — Mackenzie House
Inside the Museum — Mackenzie House

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 145972996X

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Mackenzie House, the grey-brick townhouse, steps from modern Yonge-Dundas Square and the Toronto Eaton Centre, where the firebrand rebel publisher lived from 1859 till his death in 1861; his family moved out in 1871. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour of the house, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Inside the Museums
Inside the Museums

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-07

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1459723775

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Heritage Toronto Book Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction Book Illuminates Toronto’s early history through its small heritage museums. A portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie stares from a mural at Queen subway station, his face as round and orange as a wheel of cheese. He served as Toronto’s first mayor, led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, and was grandfather to William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s tenth prime minister, whose own orange-pink visage graces the Canadian fifty-dollar bill. Three blocks from the station, Mackenzie died in the upstairs bedroom of a house now open as a heritage museum, part of a network of such homes and sites from early Toronto. Inside the Museums tells their stories. It explains why Eliza Gibson risked her life to save a clock, reveals the appalling instructions that Robert Baldwin left in his will, and examines how the career of postmaster James Scott Howard shattered on the most baseless of innuendos at one of the most highly charged moments in the city’s history.

Inside the Museum — Campbell House
Inside the Museum — Campbell House

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1459729978

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Campbell House, 160 Queen Street West, at the northwest corner with University Avenue, where judge Sir William Campbell (the judge of William Lyon Mackenzie’s trial), built his dream home in 1822. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour of the house, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Inside the Museum — Gibson House
Inside the Museum — Gibson House

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1459729986

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Gibson House, between Sheppard and Finch Avenues, where David Gibson, a leader of the 1838 Rebellion of Upper Canada, lived in this house built in 1851 on his York Township farm. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour of the house, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Inside the Museum — Spadina House
Inside the Museum — Spadina House

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1459730046

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Spadina House on Davenport Hill, less renowned than its ornate but much later neighbour, Casa Loma, and first erected by landowner and politician Dr. William Baldwin in 1818. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Inside the Museum — The Market Gallery
Inside the Museum — The Market Gallery

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1459730011

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit The Market Gallery at 95 Front Street East — the upper floor of the famous St. Lawrence Market. Walk into the market’s interior and look back carefully, and you clearly see an earlier building. It is the remains of Toronto’s first purpose-built City Hall. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Inside the Museum — Montgomery's Inn
Inside the Museum — Montgomery's Inn

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1459730038

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Montgomery’s Inn, on Dundas Street West in present-day Etobicoke. For twenty-five years, beginning in 1830, the hard-working Irish immigrant Thomas Montgomery presided over the place, providing food and lodging to travellers, and creating a social hub for the surrounding area. The inn is not to be confused with (John) Montgomery’s Tavern on Yonge Street, rebel headquarters of the 1837 Rebellion. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Inside the Museum — Colborne Lodge
Inside the Museum — Colborne Lodge

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 145973002X

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Colborne Lodge, well known to visitors to Toronto’s High Park. The home of prolific architect, surveyor, and engineer John Howard, as a museum, Colborne Lodge stands out for its original paintings and domestic gadgets. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Inside the Museum — The Grange
Inside the Museum — The Grange

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 1459730003

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit the well-known Grange at 317 Dundas Street West, near the Art Gallery of Ontario. More than any other house in Toronto, The Grange, built in 1817, testifies to the years when a tiny, colonial elite connected by blood and marriage — the Family Compact — dominated the government and judiciary. The Grange was home to the Boultons. On the Family Compact tree compiled by critic William Lyon Mackenzie, patriarch D’Arcy Boulton Sr. ranked No. 1. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour of the house, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Inside the Museum — Toronto's First Post Office
Inside the Museum — Toronto's First Post Office

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 1459729994

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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Toronto’s first post office at 260 Adelaide Street East, a handsome red-brick building still flying the Union Jack, and built in 1834. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour of the house, providing fascinating historical background and insight.