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Earliest Toronto

15 Dec 2014

This book is a fresh look at Toronto’s history from aboriginal times up to the War of 1812. Diversity was a characteristic of Toronto from its very beginnings such as the successive aboriginal communities that occupied the north shore of Lake Ontario for centuries before the first Europeans. Half Toronto’s recorded history was a story of the French regime. The celebrated founding of the city by John Graves Simcoe is cast in a new light, with the argument that an almost unknown settler should be considered a co-founder. William Berczy, leader of a group of German-speaking settlers, established a village of almost 200 residents in Markham when York had only two civilian homes. More than two hundred years ago, there were a few members of the French nobility and several black families in the forest clearing on Toronto’s harbour. Upper Canada eliminated slavery in 1793, fifteen years before Britain and its empire. Writing in the Globe and Mail, Michael Posner noted that MacIntosh had assembled a large collection of books on Toronto. He told Posner that in reading them he had become dissatisfied with the presentation of Simcoe as a great military leader and administrator, and had decided to “set the record straight”.
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Authors

Robert M. MacIntosh

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-99) and index
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Date published
2015.
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
971.3/541
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-on
ISBN
1897113412 9781771232685
LCCN
F1059.5.T68
LCCN Item number
M35 2006eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (vii, 107 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00235483 (OCoLC)903421447 (CaOOCEL)449124
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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