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This digital document is an article from Cities of the World, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 23722 words.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.A compilation of current information on cultural, geographic, and political conditions in 193 countries and their cities covering six continents, based on the Department of State's Post Reports. ... Read more

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With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization was the influx of young, single women to the city. They came seeking work, independence, and excitement, but they were not to realize these goals without contention.

Carolyn Strange examines the rise of the Toronto 'working girl,' the various agencies that 'discovered' her, the nature of 'the girl problem' from the point of view of moral overseers, the various strategies devised to solve this 'problem,' and lastly, the young women's responses to moral regulation. The 'working girl' seemed a problem to reformers, evangelists, social investigators, police, the courts, and journalists - men, mostly, who saw women's debasement as certain and appointed themselves as protectors of morality. They portrayed single women as victims of potential economic and sexual exploitation and urban immorality. Such characterization drew attention away from the greater problems these women faced: poverty, unemployment, poor housing and nutrition, and low wages.

In the course of her investigation, Strange suggests fresh approaches to working-class and urban history. Her sources include the census, court papers, newspaper accounts, philanthropic society reports, and royal commissions, but Strange also employs less conventional sources, such as photographs and popular songs. She approaches the topic from a feminist viewpoint that is equally sensitive to the class and racial dimensions of the 'girl problem,' and compares her findings with the emergence of the working woman in contemporary United States and Great Britain.

The overriding observation is that Torontonians projected their fears and hopes about urban industrialization onto the figure of the working girl. Young women were regulated from factories and offices, to streetcars and dancehalls, in an effort to control the deleterious effects of industrial capitalism. By the First World War however, their value as contributors to the expanding economy began to outweigh fear of their moral endangerment. As Torontonians grew accustomed to life in the industrial metropolis, the 'working girl' came to be seen as a valuable resource. ... Read more

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In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Locating theatre companies – their sites and practices – in Toronto’s urban environment, Michael McKinnie focuses on the ways in which the theatre has adapted to changes in civic ideology, environment, and economy.

Over the past four decades, theatre in Toronto has been increasingly implicated in the civic self-fashioning of the city and preoccupied with the consequences of the changing urban political economy. City Stages investigates a number of key questions that relate to this pattern. How has theatre been used to justify certain forms of urban development in Toronto? How have local real estate markets influenced the ways in which theatre companies acquire and use performance space? How does the analysis of theatre as an urban phenomenon complicate Canadian theatre historiography?

McKinnie uses the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts as case studies and considers theatrical companies such as Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Workshop Productions, Buddies in Bad Times, and Necessary Angel in his analysis. City Stages combines primary archival research with the scholarly literature emerging from both the humanities and social sciences. The result is a comprehensive and empirical examination of the relationship between the theatrical arts and the urban spaces that house them.

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This is only a picture book - no reviews!
This is a beautiful picture book of Toronto restaurants - not for the tourist who is looking for guidance through the myriad of outstanding Toronto restaurants. ... Read more

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Whether you're a parent, an educator or a tourist, if you're caring for children between the ages of 1-12, this book is the perfect answer to the all-too-common question: "What's there to do today?"

Small enough to fit in a knapsack yet huge on ideas, The Lobster Kids' Guide to Exploring Ottawa-Hull has more than100 suggestions for fun-filled family activities in the National Capital Region. ... Read more

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Excellent for families!
I bought this book just prior to moving to Ottawa. It was a worthwhile investment!Unlike some of the other guides, it concentrates on activities and destinations that are of interest to families and rates them based ontheir enjoyment level for kids, their learning opportunities, and cost.They list facilities available (picnic tables, restrooms,playgrounds, etc)which is definitely important when planning an all day outing with kids. The author also lists hours, prices and methods to contact an attraction,mentions near-by places of interest, and gives detailed directions from aprominent location (Parliament Hill). A wonderful guide!I hope it isupdated later to include festivals for 2001 and 2002. ... Read more

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There is a complex web of infrastructure behind the day-to-day operation of a Canadian city. Flick the switch and the light comes on; turn the tap and the water is there; flush the toilet and the sewage disappears. But what price are we paying for these services that make our lives easier?

In an age of blackouts, water problems, overflowing sewers, dangerously smoggy skies, and overburdened highways — problems that have led to an increasingly fragile environment with serious consequences for all Canadians — author Tony O’Donohue offers The Tale of a City, an essential primer in helping us to understand and improve our relationships with our engineered and natural environments. ... Read more

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Olindo Romeo Chiocca

College Street

College Street is a quasi-pseudo biography of all the people, places, and events the author took for granted as a child and teenager, but now wishes he could revisit and replay at will. His vivid descriptions, through the eyes of a young child and teenager, bring this once fledgling neighborhood to life. Dominated by the Portuguese and the Italians, the area was a continual confusion of weddings, funerals, feasts, and processions. When you include the endless array of family events, obligation, dinners, and a required clandestine trip to Italy, life for Bruno was a boiling cauldron of what today's multicultural fashionistas like to call "a cultural experience."

Olindo Romeo Chiocca was born in Toronto and lived on Grace Street for a very long time. He is the author of the humourous Mobsters and Thugs (Guernica, 2000). ... Read more

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Mike Filey's collection of pictures of Toronto from the earliest days of photography has gained a reputation as one of the most interesting visual archives of the city's history. This classic look at old Toronto portrays scenes of public life from 1860 to 1950, illustrating how dramatically the urban fabric and environment have changed. There are photographs of the beaches and the islands, of mud streets and gas lamps, of steam engines and trolley cars, amusement parks and the ever-changing waterfront. Especially striking are the early photographs of downtown and the aftermaths of the fire of 1904.

Out-of-print for over 20 years, A Toronto Album has sold over 50,000 copies in various editions. It will appeal to Torontonians young and old -- and to anyone interested in the evolution of one of the world's fastest growing cities. ... Read more

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Since 1981 NOW Magazine – Canada’s largest weekly newspaper – has delivered the best, alternative information on what’s on in the city. Now they’ve put their savvy into a book that unveils the real city for visitors and Torontonians alike.

From the latest haute restaurant to the best place for a tattoo, from where to buy Canadian-designed clothing or second-hand CDs to where to find a 24-hour laundromat or a bank open on Sundays, the NOW City Guide to Toronto covers the gamut. Any guide will recommend you stay at the Royal York Hotel and drop $300 for dinner at a chi-chi restaurant, but only the NOW Guide delivers the lowdown on backpackers’ hostels, the hippest hang-outs, and the cheap-and-great restaurants. The NOW Guide has it all – art galleries to blues bars, vintage clothing to bike rentals – with photos of the coolest places and maps keyed to the listings throughout the pocket-sized book.

Organized by neighbourhood and with a lengthy “Survival” section that provides everything a visitor would need (including a transit map, a listing of consulates, and the skinny on smoking and drinking laws), the NOW City Guide to Toronto is the comprehensive, insider’s handbook on everything and every place that’s cool and happening in Toronto.

With a readership of a quarter of a million people each week, NOW Magazine is Toronto’s most popular and comprehensive guide to what’s on in the city, covering city politics and global issues, as well as providing the latest listings for music events, restaurants, books, dance, and theatre. The NOW City Guide to Toronto is the first of a planned series. ... Read more

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Dismal
All gloss, no substance.I was drawn to the promises of hip, interesting attractions, but the recommendations were very disappointing.As someone who buys a lot of travel guides, I'd strongly recommend sticking with Fodor's.

Dismal
All gloss, no substance.I was drawn to the promises of hip, interesting attractions, but the recommendations were very disappointing.As someone who buys a lot of travel guides, I'd strongly recommend sticking with Fodor's.

Hip and happening trendy Toronto � restaurants, clubs and ot
Forget Frommer's. Ignore Fodor's. Anyone who wants to discover the real Toronto - the one tourists take several visits to learn about. Written by Canada's #1 restaurant critic and published by NOW magazine - Canada'sleading alternative weekly - the CityGuide has listings for over 400 of thehippest restaurants in the city, and more for dance clubs, theatre, recordstores, fashion and everything cutting edge about North America's coolestcity that nobody knows about. Until NOW. And there's absolutely nothingabout the CN Tower (y'know, that Space Needle thing). Witty, irreverent anddefinitive, the CityGuide is an invaluable field manual! ... Read more

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This savvy city guide includes a 64-page insider guide, compass, and PopOut™ maps to help you travel intelligently around Toronto. This guide highlights 30 main tourist attractions, including a day trip to Niagara Falls, the CN Tower, Canada Wonderland Theme Park, museums, galleries, the waterfront, and other historic districts. Toronto Insideout Guide features over 50 restaurants reflecting the ethnic mix of the city and more than 40 shops, from gourmet food shops to thrift stores to designer boutiques. It suggests 50 venues for a night out, including theaters, nightclubs, and concert halls. A concluding section provides transportation, weather, and regional custom information. Bound in durable, flexible gunmetal-gray and black plastic, with colorful photos throughout, these pocket books stand up to frequent use on-the-go and have tremendous visual appeal. ... Read more

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Frequent Toronto Traveler
This handy and compact map is perfect for the price and travel needs of Canada. The pop out feature makes you look less like a tourist, and just a well prepared traveler. I have also bought this series for other famous cities that we like to visit.
Eventhough we have been to the city many times, the underground walkways marked on this central city map, plus the subway stops are tremendously helpful for navigating your way around Toronto.
I have also bought this pop up map series as gifts. ... Read more

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As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.

In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto. Oral histories give voice to women from a range of cultural and economic backgrounds, and challenge readers to consider how factors such as race, gender, class, and marital status shaped women's lives and influenced their job options, family arrangements, and leisure activities. Breadwinning Daughters brings to light previously forgotten and unstudied experiences and illustrates how women found various ways to negotiate the burdens and joys of the 1930s.

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Toronto, named by UNESCO as the world's most multicultural city, attracts thousands of tourists annually to its fascinating neighborhoods and thriving cultural scene. But in its 250-year history, Toronto has also become a place of many intriguing secrets.

Toronto: The Unknown City delves into the lesser-known spaces and stories of Hogtown, offering tantalizing tidbits of local lore, offbeat facts and surprising anecdotes that will captivate visitors and locals alike. From sealed-off public spaces to lost railways, tales of true crime to behind-the-scenes movie gossip, this book is packed with revelations. There's also a guide to one of the world's most eclectic dining scenes, plus celebrity stories, sports snippets, a backstage tour of the theatre and music worlds, fabulous shopping tips and much more. Titillating and tempting, Toronto: The Unknown City lifts the veil off Canada's largest metropolis, to reveal the mysteries, marvels and monstrosities that lie beneath.

Praise for The Unknown City series:

"As useful to locals as it is to tourists."-Globe & Mail

"Part tourist reference, part compendium of lore . . . a witty, engrossing, innovative series of guidebooks."-Georgia Straight

"The wonky spin on things local is not only useful but hugely entertaining."-Gazette

Howard Akler is a lifelong resident of Toronto. He has written for Lola, the local art magazine, and is currently at work on a novel set during the city's centenary.

Sarah B. Hood is the author of Practical Pedalling, has contributed to Toronto Life, NOW, eye, and is the editor of Performing Arts in Canada. In 1990, she received an honorable mention at the National Magazine Awards.

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Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became its bible. This reprint of the third edition, prepared by Stephen Otto, updates Arthur's classic to include information and illustrations uncovered since the appearance of the first edition.

Four new essays were commissioned for this reprint. Christopher Hume, architecture critic and urban affairs columnist for the Toronto Star, addresses the changes to the city since the appearance of the third edition in 1986. Architect and heritage preservation activist Catherine Nasmith assesses the current status of the city's heritage preservation movement. Susan Crean, a freelance writer in Toronto, explores Toronto's vibrant arts scene. Mark Kingwell, professor and cultural commentator, reflects on the development of professional and amateur sports in and around town.

Readers will delight in these anecdotal accounts of the city's rich architectural heritage.

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With Access Montreal & Quebec City, you'll discover old-world charm and modern-day pleasures in Canada's most fiercely independent and popular city destinations.

Montreal & Quebec City have been divided and organized by neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed.

Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best:

hotels • restaurants • Attractions • Shopping sights • Parks and Outdoor Spaces

Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss. ... Read more