Toronto Island, known as ‘the Island,’ has always been the city of Toronto’s most distinctive and beloved popular resort. From the earliest days of British rule in the late eighteenth century, the island was a mix of the planned and unplanned, and, despite various government interventions, remained a unique blend throughout the nineteenth century and beyond. One goal of this article is to trace the recreational history of the Island in the nineteenth century. A second goal will be to trace the growth of its parkland and its role in shaping and altering the resort. The conclusion suggests reasons for the island’s continuing success and then sets forth a few thoughts for dealing with special landscapes in an urban setting.L’île de Toronto, su...
Bathing transformed between 1850 and 1935 as Toronto moved from a vernacular system, epitomized by t...
The large natural areas, linked to the various resorts, were custodians of the best trout lakes, hug...
On the island of Jersey, the success of local industries including agriculture, tourism, and financi...
Toronto’s two Exhibition Parks were set aside for an exhibition and for various other fairs a...
A half-million square metres (50 hectares) was brought in to railroad and commercial use at wharfage...
Over four decades beginning in the 1890s, the east-end Toronto district now known as “The Beach” was...
Toronto or the emergence of a new city-world — G. Poiret. During the second half of the twentieth c...
grantor: University of TorontoIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, thousan...
How a municipal parks system formed in London following Confederation provides insight into the stru...
In 1837, architect John George Howard purchased 165 acres west of Toronto as a country estate that h...
This article uses a study of Toronto in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to upend a...
In the early 1860s, wealthy English Montrealers began to purchase property on the shores of Lake Mem...
Synergistic relationships between the Virgin Islands territorial and U.S. federal government, touris...
At the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Queen Charlotte Isl...
L’article analyse les transformations survenues au niveau du nombre et de la nature des navires des ...
Bathing transformed between 1850 and 1935 as Toronto moved from a vernacular system, epitomized by t...
The large natural areas, linked to the various resorts, were custodians of the best trout lakes, hug...
On the island of Jersey, the success of local industries including agriculture, tourism, and financi...
Toronto’s two Exhibition Parks were set aside for an exhibition and for various other fairs a...
A half-million square metres (50 hectares) was brought in to railroad and commercial use at wharfage...
Over four decades beginning in the 1890s, the east-end Toronto district now known as “The Beach” was...
Toronto or the emergence of a new city-world — G. Poiret. During the second half of the twentieth c...
grantor: University of TorontoIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, thousan...
How a municipal parks system formed in London following Confederation provides insight into the stru...
In 1837, architect John George Howard purchased 165 acres west of Toronto as a country estate that h...
This article uses a study of Toronto in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to upend a...
In the early 1860s, wealthy English Montrealers began to purchase property on the shores of Lake Mem...
Synergistic relationships between the Virgin Islands territorial and U.S. federal government, touris...
At the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Queen Charlotte Isl...
L’article analyse les transformations survenues au niveau du nombre et de la nature des navires des ...
Bathing transformed between 1850 and 1935 as Toronto moved from a vernacular system, epitomized by t...
The large natural areas, linked to the various resorts, were custodians of the best trout lakes, hug...
On the island of Jersey, the success of local industries including agriculture, tourism, and financi...