Illustrated Toronto Past And Present

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Hardcover reprint of the original 1877 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Timperlake, J. Illustrated Toronto: Past And Present, Being An Historical And Descriptive Guide-Book: Comprising Its Architecture, Manufacture, Trade; Its Social, Literary, Scientific, And Charitable Institutions: Its Churches, Schools, And Colleges: And Other Principal Points of Interest To The Visitor And Resident: Together With A Key To The Publisher's Bird's-Eye View of The City. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Timperlake, J. Illustrated Toronto: Past And Present, Being An Historical And Descriptive Guide-Book: Comprising Its Architecture, Manufacture, Trade; Its Social, Literary, Scientific, And Charitable Institutions: Its Churches, Schools, And Colleges: And Other Principal Points of Interest To The Visitor And Resident: Together With A Key To The Publisher's Bird's-Eye View of The City, . Toronto: P.A. Gross, 1877. Subject: Toronto Ont. History

Excerpt from Illustrated Toronto, Past and Present: Being an Historical and Descriptive Guide-Book, Comprising Its Architecture, Manufacture, Trade, Its Social, Literary, Scientific, and Charitable Institutions, Its Churches, Schools, and Colleges, and Other Principal Points of Interest The Lithographic Bird's Eye View, to which the following pages form a key, has been nearly three years in preparation, and has entailed an amount of labour that is clearly magnified upon an inspection of this work. This picture of Toronto is five feet by three feet three inches, is printed in three colours, and the mechanical execution of which reflects the highest credit upon Messrs. Copp, Clark St Co a firm whose reputa tion is well known through the entire Dominion for the excellence of their lithographic printing. Mr. Gross, the artist and delineator, sketched and lithographed the city from actual survey, every avenue, street, lane, and alley, having been traversed by him; and every building, either store, private residence, or public building, etc, etc., has been drawn with a faithfulness and a minuteness that excites astonishment and admiration in all beholders. He has so drawn his picture as to present at one glance a bird's-eye view of Toronto and its northern suburbs, as if seen from a south-eastern portion of the island at an elevation of about feet above the level of the lake. This part of the View, with the foreground of the picture, comprises the harbour, wharves, elevators, and principal manufactories of the city, while the background is formed of Rosedale and Yorkville, and the villages of Seaton and Brockton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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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.