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 Museums
Inside the Museums

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1459723767

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Illuminates Toronto's early history through its small heritage museums and their prized objects. For the first time, it showcases the scattered historic homes and other buildings as a single community.

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 — 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 Hamilton's Museums
Inside Hamilton's Museums

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1459733568

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Exploring Hamilton through its heritage museums. Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination. With an emphasis on storytelling and unsung heroes, the book identifies where Sergeant Alexander Fraser bayonetted seven enemy soldiers in a shocking attack to save Upper Canada in 1813. It evokes the day in 1939 when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth opened the Queen Elizabeth Way, the first intercity divided highway in North America. And it illuminates the four months in 1846 when an otherwise immensely privileged teenager, Sophia MacNab, documented her mother’s excruciating demise. Appealing to Hamiltonians and visitors alike, the book brings to life the former residents of Dundurn Castle, Whitehern Historic House, the Old Waterworks, Battlefield House, Griffin House, the Joseph Brant Museum, and the Erland Lee Museum, birthplace of the Women’s Institutes.

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 — 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.

Inside the Museum — Fort York National Historic Site
Inside the Museum — Fort York National Historic Site

Author: John Goddard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1459730054

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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 one of the jewels in Toronto’s historical crown: Fort York. This fort was the famous site of the Battle of York in 1813 and was founded in 1793 as a military outpost; it served as a barracks as recently as the First World War and is one of the city’s leading tourist attractions. John Goddard takes us on a detailed tour, providing fascinating historical background and insight.

Directory of Historic House Museums in the United States
Directory of Historic House Museums in the United States

Author: Patricia Chambers Walker

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780742503441

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The first comprehensive guide to America's historic house museums, this directory moves beyond merely listing institutions to providing information about interpretive themes, historical and architectural significance, collections, and cultural and social importance, along with programming events and facility information. Useful cross-reference guides provide quick and easy ways of locating information on almost 2500 museums. A multi-functional reference for museum professionals, local historians, historic preservationists or anyone interested in America's historic house museums.