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I Brought the Ages Home

2008

I Brought the Ages Home is the intriguing story of how a boy born in southwestern Ontario and trained for the ministry became one of Canada's great archaeological pioneers and museum-builders-nothing less than a homegrown Indiana Jones. Described by scholar Dennis Duffy as the Royal Ontario Museum's own "Genesis narrative," I Brought the Ages Home is a lively, adventure-packed memoir that traces Currelly's life from his childhood in Exeter, Ontario, to Victoria College in Toronto, and on to Egypt, Crete, and Asia Minor, where he established his reputation as one of the era's most energetic and passionate collectors of antiquities. Later chapters describe Currelly's work as the first director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology and how he "brought the ages home" to the corner of Bloor Street and Queen's Park in Toronto. General readers and students of archaeology and museology alike will treasure this behind-the-scenes account of the making of one of Canada's great cultural institutions. This new edition includes a special afterword by Dennis Duffy of the University of Toronto that sets Currelly's autobiography in a modern context, as well as the original introduction by Northrop Frye. The result is a book that is at once an engaging autobiography and unique insider's perspective on the formative years of a cultural cornerstone that, with its recent renovations, is once again the focus of national attention.
canada biography history archaeologists royal ontario museum museum curators currelly, charles trick, 1876-1957

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Charles Trick Currelly

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
930.1092
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Includes index Published as part of a series of books in the Wynford Project Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
9780195428940 9780195434811
LCCN
CC115.C6
LCCN Item number
A3 2008eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xiv, 340 p. :)
Published in
Canada
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00223338 (OCoLC)753336434 (CaOOCEL)432127
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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