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Inside the Museums
eBook - Toronto's Heritage Sites and their Most Prized Objects
ISBN/EAN: 9781459723771
Umbreit-Nr.: 2215150
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 224 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 07.06.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <i>Heritage Toronto Book Award Shortlisted, Non-Fiction Book</i><br><p>Illuminates Torontos early history through its small heritage museums.<br><br>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 Torontos first mayor, led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, and was grandfather to William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadas 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.<i>Inside the Museums</i> 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 citys history.</p>
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- John Goddard is an author, magazine writer and former<i>Toronto Star</i> reporter with a specialty in exploring little-known Ontario wonders. His books include<i>Rock and Roll Toronto</i>, with TV's Richard Crouse, a cheeky guide to the citys rock-and-roll historic sites. He lives in Toronto.