Riverdale
Riverdale

Author: Elizabeth Gillan Muir

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-10-08

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1459728726

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A complete history of Toronto's Riverdale community, this book narrates the lives of early inhabitants, (reaching as far back as Simcoe's first settlement of the region), the construction boom of 1915, and the waves of immigration that made Riverdale one of Toronto's most diverse areas.

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada
Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

Author: Geoffrey J. Matthews

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0802042031

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A distillation of sixty-seven of the best and most important plates from the original three volumes of the bestselling of the Historical Atlas of Canada.

Encyclopedia of American Religions
Encyclopedia of American Religions

Author: J. Gordon Melton

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1210

ISBN-13: 9780810377141

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"Compact, clearly printed, and a delight to use. A sine qua non for the reference collections of public, academic, and theological libraries". -- American Reference Books Annual New Edition Your patrons will find this resource comprehensive as well as compelling, with coverage on more than 2,100 North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada -- from Adventists to Zen Buddhists. Information on these groups is presented in two distinct sections. These sections contain essays and directory listings that describe the historical development of religious families and give factual information about each group within those families, including, when available, rubrics for membership figures, educational facilities and periodicals. This new 5th edition also includes more than 200 new entries in the directory portion, and a new chapter on the Interfaith and Ecumenical family. In addition, numerous indexes help users quickly find the information they're seeking.