A City in the Making Progress, People and Perils in Victorian Toronto

Armstrong, Frederick H.

ISBN 10: 1550020269 / ISBN 13: 9781550020267

Published by Dundurn Pr Ltd, Toronto & Oxford, 1988

About this Item

Endpaper has bookplate. DJ has some yellowing. ; 0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches; 360 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A City in the Making Progress, People and Perils in Victorian Toronto
• Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd, Toronto & Oxford
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550020269
• ISBN 13: 9781550020267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A 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.

About the Author

Frederick H. Armstrong, a graduate of the University of Toronto, is a Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author or editor of numerous books and studies on Upper Canada including a new edition of Henry Scaddings Toronto of Old; Aspects of Nineteenth Century Ontario; and Toronto: The Place of Meeting.