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The events which began in June, 1940 and in time led to the internment of several hundred Italian-Canadians have become in recent years a more rlevant part of history for all Canadians. Internment, because of its harsh intrusion on individual and family life, matters not simply to the interned but to citizens of the country carrying on the internment. One man who was interned, Montreal writer Mario Duliani, wrote an account of tose many, long months in the internment camp but because he did not write in English, his work was unread by the majority of Canadians for whom English is the only tongue. Now, thanks to Antonino Mazza, Duliani's book, The City Without Women, with its sad, telling description of internment life, can be read by the many thousands of people who ought to have read it, but did not or could not. Mr. Mazza brings to his task not only an understanding of language, but of the creative gift which is necessary to translation. His work is informed by compassion and commitment and we should be grateful that he has undertaken it. At last, The City Without Women has the audience it has so long been denied. ... Read more

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How do schools hurt children? This book examines the negative practices of schools which are resulting in school systems failing students. Such practices include intrusive authoritarian administrative structures and procedures; inappropriate discipline; unrealistic expectations; and placid acceptance of exclusionary practices. ... Read more

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A Law Unto Itself provides a detailed examination of the development and application of land use planning policy by the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), a key Canadian administrative tribunal.Unlike the many existing analyses that focus on judicial reviews of the administrative process, this text explores the administrative process itself and demonstrates how a tribunal creates and implements policy through its decision-making.

Using a wide variety of case studies, John Chipman analyzes almost 900 of the OMB's planning-related decisions during two specific time periods (1971-1978 and 1987-2000), illuminating the way in which the OMB frequently overturns municipal land-use planning decisions and imposes its own policies, which are generally protective of private interests, and the way in which it applies provincial planning policies within the context of its own standards.Chipman concludes that the nature of the policies developed by the OMB as well as the changing climate within which it operates together provide evidence that the board has outlived its role as a planning appeal tribunal.

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In August 1914, Berlin, Ontario, settled largely by people of German origin, was a thriving, peaceful city. By the spring of 1915 it was a city torn apart by the tensions of war. By September 1916, Berlin had become Kitchener. It began with the need to raise a battalion of 1,100 men to support the British war effort.

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This is your essential guide to discovering the very best the magical city of Quebec has to offer. Quebec City's rich history, culture, and architecture - not to mention its dramatic setting - make a favourite travel destination all year round. Fully revised and updated, this superb volume reveals its many marvels, from historic tours to magnificent gardens, fabulous dining, exciting nightlife, and much more: the best hotels, cafes, restaurants, bars and clubs - to suit all budgets; eleven of the best tours of the city and surrounding region - walking, cycling, and/or public transport; all attractions have been personally visited and star-rated by the locally-based editors; and, detailed maps to help you make the most of your trip. ... Read more

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Quebec City
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Highly descriptive guide
Lots of great walking tours, and a lot of different options for restaurants, lodging, and stuff to do.The maps were quite helpful when I went to Quebec City for the first time.In many ways, this book is better than similar guides as it is written by local authors and published by a Canadian company, so there is inside knowledge of the area.Absolutely wonderful restaurants that do not appear in other publications are listed here.But this is not a perfect guide.The language section consists primarily of standard French phrases rather than ones more likely to be heard in Quebec, and it is a bit smaller than what most travellers would find useful.This is a concern because the Quebec dialect of French is comprehensible to French speakers, but it can be significantly different from that spoken in France or taught in schools.An addition of local phrases would be of great use.Why the language section is so light is uncertain.

Overall, though, I recommend this and other publications from this publisher for the traveller going to Canada.If I get to Montreal or other areas in French speaking Canada, I will be sure to get the equivalent versions of this publication for my trip.

The Basics, but not much more
This guide book included interesting walking tours and descriptions of historic buildings and monuments of Quebec.However, it was not good at giving directions to locate restaurants.Although it did have a mini glossary of French terms, this did not include regional dishes found in restaurants, which was a problem for me in the few restaurants where no English menu was available.Also, the introductory text about the history and society of Quebec was not well-written.Too bad Let's Go! doesn't make a Quebec City guide! ... Read more

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A single gunshot on Saturday night, October 6, 1894, shattered Toronto's prevailing sense of peace and security. That gunshot took the life of Frank Westwood, a respectable young man from one of the city's most prominent families. This unprecedented attack produced a feeling of hysteria throughout Toronto and baffled the municipal police forces. The mystery was even referred to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. However, even the Great Detective could not solve the Westwood murder. Finally, a chance rumour led to the most unlikely of suspects - a young Black woman named Clara Ford.She was a most unusual character, a tough, revolver-toting lady who often wore men's clothing and defied the norms of late Victorian Toronto. While the police increasingly focused their investigation on her, the motives for the killing remained a puzzle. Was Clara seeking revenge for a previous assault, or was she the frustrated lover of a young white man? The trial of Clara Ford captured Toronto's attention like no other case before it. The evidence revealed a bizarre story of romance and racism.In addition to the wildly unconventional Clara, the cast of characters featured dogged detectives, and wily lawyers who at times seemed to make this cause celebre more of a theatrical than a judicial display. ... Read more

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Sudbury, Ontario is one of the world's most polluted areas. A century of industrial activities has resulted in thousands of acidified lakes and vast areas of denuded land. This book describes, in a manner accessible to a wide audience, the damage and the efforts at environmental restoration at Sudbury which resulted in its winning a United Nations award in 1992 for land reclamation. The book has been written by a distinguished group of contributors, ranging from experts in acid rain and land reclamation to environmental engineers and toxicologists. ... Read more

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If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, food-security concerns, how chefs are trained: how a city nourishes itself might say more than anything else about what kind of city it is.

With a cornucopia of essays on comestibles, The Edible City considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school lunches. There are incisive studies of food-safety policy, of feeding the poor, and of waste, and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree.

Together they form a saucy picture of how Toronto – and, by extension, every city – sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants. Dig into The Edible City and get the whole story, from field to fork.

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With a landmass of approximately 7000 square kilometres and a population of roughly five million, the Greater Toronto Area is Canada's largest metropolitan centre. How did a small nineteenth-century colonial capital become this sprawling urban giant, and how did government policies shape the contours of its landscape?

In Toronto Sprawls, Lawrence Solomon examines the great migration from farms to the city that occurred in the last half of the nineteenth century. During this period, a disproportionate number of single women came to Toronto while, at the same time, immigration from abroad was swelling the city's urban boundaries. Labour unions were increasingly successful in recruiting urban workers in these years. Governments responded to these perceived threats with a series of policies designed to foster order. To promote single family dwellings conducive to the traditional family, buildings in high-density areas were razed and apartment buildings banned. To discourage returning First World War veterans from settling in cities, the government offered grants to spur rural settlement. These policies and others dispersed the city's population and promoted sprawl.

An illuminating read, Toronto Sprawls makes a convincing case that urban sprawl in Toronto was caused not by market forces, but rather by policies and programs designed to disperse Toronto's urban population.

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excellent little book
This little book (under 100 pages if you ignore the end notes) explains how government at all levels favored sprawl in Toronto.A few major points:

*Toronto land use regulation has always limited intown growth; as early as 1921, the city reserved some streets for detached houses, and today height limits perform the same function even in renter-oriented areas.

*In 1935, the federal Dominion Home Act (DHA) was enacted.This law heavily subsidized mortgages; Solomon notes that 80 percent of DHA loans were to suburban buyers.(He fails to explain, however, why this was so- I suspect because DHA loans were only open for new homes and cities were "built out").

*Provincial and regional governments subsidized suburban sewers and highways.And because many of these facilities were often financed with metro-area taxes at a time when suburbs were poorer than today, city of Toronto taxpayers paid for them.

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This digital document is an article from Northern Ontario Business, published by Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc. on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 607 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: European technology to be manufactured in city.(Special Report: Sudbury)(Laari Construction, Puzer Canada)
Author: Joseph Quesnel
Publication: Northern Ontario Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 24Issue: 11Page: 21(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Landscape and Urban Planning, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Many cities in North America are attempting to implement connected greenway networks. Some are building on sparse existing open space resources. Other metropolitan areas, like Milwaukee, Wisconsin (US) and Ottawa, Ontario (Canada), have an impressive historic open space framework on which to build. However, neither city is well known for progressive, contemporary greenway planning efforts. This research asks two main questions. First, how have early city planning efforts affected the pattern of connected greenway systems currently in place in these cities? To address this question, the history of open space planning and the physical change in greenway development is assessed over time. Second, what institutional structures are currently used to implement connected greenways, and how do they relate to the historic fabric? Organizational structures, inter-governmental cooperation, leadership and advocacy, and greenway objectives are compared in order to assess the degree to which a regional vision is being pursued. This project is based on comparative case study research. Qualitative techniques are used to develop in-depth cases. Findings show that Milwaukee and Ottawa have remarkable historic corridors to build from, especially in parkways planned along urban rivers in the early 20th century. This analysis shows, however, that contemporary collaboration around regional greenways planning is piecemeal, that greenway objectives have changed over time in important ways, and that coordinated greenway visions are lacking. Finally, both Milwaukee and Ottawa seem poised for integrated greenways programs, accelerated by innovative experimental projects, increasing environmental awareness, and growing institutional capacity. This research has relevance to the growing literature in greenway planning and implementation. ... Read more

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The author says a country road is a state of mind that makes the road itself a destination. With this guide--she proves her point. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mortgage Banking, published by Mortgage Bankers Association of America on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3799 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Toronto's Renewal.(Ontario, Canada)
Author: Albert Warson
Publication: Mortgage Banking (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Volume: 61Issue: 6Page: 78

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Unbuilt Toronto explores never-realized building projects in and around Toronto, from the city’s founding to the twenty-first century. Delving into unfulfilled and largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, highways, subways, and arts and recreation venues, it outlines such ambitious schemes as St. Alban's Cathedral, the Queen subway line and early city plans that would have resulted in a paris-by-the-Lake.

Readers may lament the loss of some projects (such as the Eaton’s College Street tower), be thankful for the disappearance of others (a highway through the Annex) and marvel at the downtown that could have been (with underground roads and walkways in the sky).

Featuring 147 photographs and illustrations, many never before published, Unbuilt Toronto casts a different light on a city you thought you knew.

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Chapters: Media in Vancouver, Media in Toronto, Media in Windsor, Ontario, Media in Ottawa-Gatineau, Media in Greater Sudbury, Media in Winnipeg, Media in London, Ontario, Media in Thunder Bay, Media in Peel, Media in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Media in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Media in Calgary, Media in Montreal, Media in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Media in Edmonton, Media in Saskatoon, Media in Peterborough, Ontario, Media in Regina, Saskatchewan, Media in Timmins, Media in Waterloo Region, Media in Hamilton, Ontario, Media in North Bay, Ontario, Media in the Fraser Valley, Media in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Media in Quebec City, Media in Sherbrooke, Media in Banff, Alberta, Media in Prince George, British Columbia, Media in Brandon, Manitoba, Media in Victoria, British Columbia, Media in Lethbridge, Media in Saguenay, Quebec, Media in Grande Prairie, Media in Guelph, Media in Kelowna, Media in Kingston, Ontario, Media in Charlottetown, Media in Fredericton, Media in Moncton, Media in Red Deer, Media in Medicine Hat, Media in Saint John, New Brunswick, Media in Owen Sound, Media in Trois-Rivières, Media in Kamloops, Media in Fort Mcmurray. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 185. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This is an overview of media in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver has two major English-language daily newspapers, The Vancouver Sun (a broadsheet) and The Province (a tabloid). Both are published by CanWest MediaWorks Publications, a division of CanWest Global Communications. There are also two national newspapers distributed in the city: The Globe and Mail, which began distribution of a "national edition" into B.C. in 1983, and in more recent years launched a three-page B.C. news section in an effort to increase its readership in the city. The Nati...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4431220 ... Read more

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Chapters: Churches in Calgary, Churches in Edmonton, Churches in Hamilton, Ontario, Churches in Montreal, Churches in Ottawa, Churches in Quebec City, Churches in Toronto, Churches in Vancouver, Churches in Windsor, Ontario, Churches in Winnipeg, List of United Church of Canada Churches in Toronto, List of Orthodox Churches in Toronto, List of Ottawa Churches, List of Roman Catholic Churches in Toronto, St. Joseph's Basilica, Edmonton, List of Anglican Churches in Toronto, Notre-Dame Basilica, Knox Presbyterian Church, St. Thomas's Anglican Church, List of Presbyterian Churches in Toronto, Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral, Cathedral of Christ the King, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Christ Church Cathedral, St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church, Mimico, St. Clement Catholic Church, First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Toronto, St. Patrick's Basilica, Montreal, St. Agnes Kouying Tsao Catholic Church, Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa, St. Andrew's Church, Église Sainte-Geneviève, Anglican Church of St. John the Evangelist, Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, Parkdale, Cathedral of St. John, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, Our Lady of the Assumption (Windsor, Ontario), Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral, Church of St. Michael and St. Anthony, Notre-Dame Church, Christ's Church Cathedral (Hamilton, Ontario), Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, Kingsway, Saint Joseph's Oratory, Robertson-Wesley United Church, Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Mcdougall United Church, St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral, Toronto, Visitation Church, Montreal, Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, St. Andrew's United Church, All Saints' Anglican Cathedral, Wesley Mimico United Church, Pine Grove Bible Church, St. James-Bond Church, Church of the Holy Trinity, First Presbyterian Church, Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, Metropolitan United Church, St. Josaphat Cathedral, St. James t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22118918 ... Read more

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Toronto is Canada's top destination for American tourists and business visitors.

In this revised and updated edition, there are 489 restaurants, 146 intriguing neighborhoods, hundreds of shops, parks and exciting nightlife destinations plus many intriguing insights into what makes Toronto great. Toronto City Guide contains:

- Places: hundreds of Toronto's most interesting sites, including art galleries and street art, historic buildings, entertainment spots and sports facilities, museums, parks, gardens, zoos, public squares, and places of worship.

- Entertainment: dance, festivals, cinema, classical and choral music, clubs and bars, opera, professional sports, and theater.

- Food: 489 restaurants, including "the best food" and "the best value."

- Visiting the City: common sense information and tips for tourists.

- Maps: 68 maps pinpointing 1,500 places, with street numbers, parking lots, gas stations, one-way streets, and 24-hour services.

- Website Directory: 384 local websites that provide a wealth of additional and up-to-the minute information.

Over 1,800 things to see and do in a handy and easy-to-use guide! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (11)

Trustworthy and well-creased
I am sad to see there are some quite unfriendly reviews of this book. I used it every day when I first came to this city and still consult it with pleasure and in confidence. I have found it always useful and while I have learned much more about what is in Toronto I have not needed to buy a different one.

Not Impressed
I've purchased dozens of travel guides for many different cities/countries over the years and this is the worst one I've ever seen.I bought it based on the reviews, but am very disappointed.I'm going to ditch it and try a more familiar publisher.

Second only to your passport for the Toronto visitor !
This book on Toronto, the city of my birth, is one of the most practical and interesting books on the city. Each chapter is cleary set out and includes not just real practical help, but interesting trivia too. There are many street maps which accompany text : they are very precise, yet not over detailed, so the reader never gets bogged down in unnecessary mire.
The chapter on City life and entertainment is my favourite: starting with an annual calendar of events to suit really every taste, it then proceeds to break down all types of entertainment into different categories, again with well laid out plans on how to get there.

Metro Toronto is now a huge, sprawling multi-cultural city, yet the author has managed superbly to break down the city into manageable , readable sections entitled: Neighbourhood Profiles. which for every 34 neighbourhood section on each double page, has the map of the neighbourhood on the left side and on the right, complementary and again, interesting, practical information for the visitor.

John Must has done a really thorough job on this and coupled with the really affordable priced, pardon the pun , but this book is a must.

Fantastic book!
I just got back from a 4 day trip to Toronto with this book as my guide, and I must say it's one great book.

The format of this book is different from other guidebooks like Lonely Planet and Fodor's, but it's also the best part about it.The author breaks the city into 35 or so sections, and devotes two pages to each section.On the left hand page is a map of that particular section.These are great maps; they contain street numbers, locations of major sites, locations of restaurants, and locations of little things like convenience stores.On the facing page is a (unually historical) description about that section of town.Need to find out where you are?No need to break out a large, clumsy, fold out map of the city.Just figure out what part of town you're in, turn to that page in the book, and there you go.

The rest of of book contains usual guidebook info like listings of major restaurants, sites, how to get to/from the airport, more maps (the one of the subway is very useful) and stuff like that.NOTE:one thing the book lacks is hotel information.Nothing about budget accomodations, B&B's, fancy hotels. . .nothing.So don't rely on this book to get you a place to stay for the night, but you can rely on it for everything else.

HELPFUL!
I was so glad to have this book on my trip! ... Read more