The Condition of the Working Class in Toronto, 1900-1921
Author | : Michael J. Piva |
Publisher | : Ottawa, Ont. : University of Ottawa Press, 1979 (Montmagny : Editions Marquis) |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael J. Piva |
Publisher | : Ottawa, Ont. : University of Ottawa Press, 1979 (Montmagny : Editions Marquis) |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gregory S. Kealey |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 0773513523 |
This collection of twelve essays by Gregory Kealey, will be of great interest to students and scholars of Canadian history, labour history, Marxist and socialist theory and history, and political science.
Author | : Bryan D. Palmer |
Publisher | : Between the Lines |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2016-11-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1771132825 |
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. Written by a historian of the working class and a poor people’s activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto’s poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities.
Author | : J.M.S. Careless |
Publisher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780888626646 |
At the beginning of 1793 Toronto was the gateway to a distant portage to the Upper Great Lakes, its permanent population a lone fur trader. One hundred and twenty-five years later it was a solid, vibrant metropolis, an industrial powerhouse supporting half a million residents. Toronto is a city built by its people, from the original colonial aristocracy of the Family Compact, to the masses of British and Irish migrants who forged its profound links with Empire, to the polyglot flow of international migration that would ultimately transform the city in the twentieth century. This book recounts their stories, and their stories are the history of Toronto's emergence as a world-class city. In Toronto to 1918, distinguished historian J.M.S. Careless expertly draws Toronto's stories together, creating an illuminating and entertaining portrait of the city. The text is complemented with more than 150 historical illustrations.
Author | : Orest T. Martynowych |
Publisher | : CIUS Press |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1991-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780920862766 |
The history of Ukrainian immigration, settlement, and community-building in Canada.
Author | : Craig Heron |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780802080820 |
A clear, concise portrait of one of the most dramatic moments in the history of working-class life and class relations generally in Canada - the upsurge of working-class protest at the end of the First World War.
Author | : Jill Wade |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780774804547 |
Houses for All is the story of the struggle for social housingin Vancouver between 1919 and 1950. It argues that, however temporaryor limited their achievements, local activists pplayed a significantrole in the introduction, implementation, or continuation of many earlynational housing programs. Ottawa's housing initiatives were notalways unilateral actions in the development of the welfare state. Thedrive for social housing in Vancouver complemented the tradition ofhousing activism that already existed in the United Kingdom and, to alesser degree, in the United States.
Author | : R. B. Fleming |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0774853913 |
During the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada's best known entrepreneurs. He Spearheading some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada, he built a business empire that stretched from Montreal to British Columbia and to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil. It included gas, electric, telephone and transit utilities, railroads, hotels, and steamships as well as substantial coal mining, whaling, and timber interests. But when he died in 1923, his estate was virtually bankrupt as a result of the dramatic collapse of his Canadian Northern Railway during the First World War. In a business biography intended as much for general readers as for a scholarly audience, Fleming offers a revisionist perspective on Mackenzie. He dispels the simplistic approach of those historians and journalists who have depicted Mackenzie and his partner Sir Donald Mann as melodramatic crooks who could have stepped out of the pages of Huckleberry Finn.
Author | : Mark George McGowan |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Catholics |
ISBN | : 0773517898 |
McGowan traces the evolution of the Catholic community from an isolated religious and Irish ethnic subculture in the late nineteenth century into an integrated segment of English Canadian society by the early twentieth century. English-speaking Catholics moved into all neighbourhoods of the city and socialized with and married non-Catholics. They even embraced their own brand of imperialism: by 1914 thousands of them had enlisted to fight for God and the British Empire. McGowan's detailed and lively portrait will be of great interest to students and scholars of religious history, Irish studies, ethnic history, and Canadian history.
Author | : William Fong |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0773574689 |
J.W. McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of his generation - in Canada and internationally. Early in his career McConnell established the Montreal office of the Standard Chemical Company and began selling bonds and shares in both North America and Europe, establishing relationships that would lead to his enormous financial success. He was involved in numerous businesses, from tramways to ladies' fashion to mining, and served on the boards of several corporations. For nearly fifty years he was president of St Laurence Sugar and late in life he became the owner and publisher of the Montreal Star. McConnell was an indefatigable and formidable fundraiser for the YMCA, the war effort of 1914/18, hospitals, and McGill University, where he served as governor for almost three decades. In 1937 he established what would become The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, the first major foundation in Canada and still one of the best endowed. J.W. McConnell was a principled and brilliant visionary with a strong work ethic and a deep commitment to the public good, a Rockefellerian figure in both big business and high society who quietly became one of the greatest philanthropists of his time. His life story - told in uncompromising detail by William Fong - is a study of raising, spending, and giving away money on the grandest scale.