Toronto Mayors

Author : Mark Maloney
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459751248
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toronto Mayors written by Mark Maloney and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever look at all 65 Toronto mayors — the good, the bad, the colourful, the rogues, and the leaders — who have shaped the city. Toronto’s mayoral history is both rich and colourful. Spanning 19 decades and the growth of Toronto, from its origins as a dusty colonial outpost of just 9,200 residents to a global business centre and metropolis of some three million, this compendium provides fascinating biographical detail on each of the city’s mayors. Toronto’s mayors have been curious, eccentric, or offbeat; others have been rebellious, swaggering, or alcoholic. Some were bigots, bullies, refugees, war heroes, social crusaders, or bon vivants; still others were inspiring, forward looking, or well ahead of their time. One Toronto mayor attempted to kill a predecessor, but his pistol jammed. Another simply beat up the councillors he didn’t like. One committed murder, while another carried out a home invasion. And under the threat of capture and certain death, two mayors were forced to escape the city and live for years in exile, while another had 18 kids and cried poor, yet died on a luxury European vacation (minus the kids). One mayor was involved in the brutal torture of an opposition candidate. Another went insane while in office due to acute third stage syphilis. Each mayor is the inheritor of a rich legacy of hopes and dreams, ambitions and efforts, successes and failures. From the first mayor in 1834 — the firebrand rebel William Lyon Mackenzie — to those of the 21st century — Mel Lastman, David Miller, Rob Ford, and John Tory — Toronto Mayors looks at where each came from, how they came to lead the city, what issues they dealt with, and how they steered Toronto’s City Council.

Author : Victor Loring Russell
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayors of Toronto: 1834-1899 written by Victor Loring Russell and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312286806
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China to Canada written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China To Canada is an imaginative work of poetry inspired by the plans for a real train line and by an old book of poetry by Richard Brautigan.

Author : Edward Keenan
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770563261
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Great Idea written by Edward Keenan and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city might proceed from here. Some Great Idea includes behind-the-scenes tales from the Miller and Ford campaigns, and explores recent turning points like the city's core service review and the mayor’s con?ict-of-interest trial. Through personal history, keen reportage and revelatory analysis, it shows how the fundamental principles of diversity and democracy that have made Toronto such a vibrant, dynamic 21st-century city can produce an unlikely politician like Ford. And how those same principles have vividly and repeatedly insisted that such politicians are only part of a larger, messier and more productive urban politics. This is a story about both Toronto's past and present, how the city has relentlessly and collaboratively reinvented itself. But it's also a story about Toronto's future, and what that future might mean for all global cities. This is a story that says you can ?ght city hall. Edward Keenan serves as senior editor and lead columnist at The Grid magazine in Toronto, Ontario. An eight-time finalist at the National Magazine Awards, he has written for and edited at Eye Weekly, Spacing magazine, and The Walrus.

Author : Conference of American Mayors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference of American Mayors on Public Policies as to Municipal Utilities written by Conference of American Mayors and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J.M.S. Careless
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780888626646
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toronto to 1918 written by J.M.S. Careless and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of 1793 Toronto was the gateway to a distant portage to the Upper Great Lakes, its permanent population a lone fur trader. One hundred and twenty-five years later it was a solid, vibrant metropolis, an industrial powerhouse supporting half a million residents. Toronto is a city built by its people, from the original colonial aristocracy of the Family Compact, to the masses of British and Irish migrants who forged its profound links with Empire, to the polyglot flow of international migration that would ultimately transform the city in the twentieth century. This book recounts their stories, and their stories are the history of Toronto's emergence as a world-class city. In Toronto to 1918, distinguished historian J.M.S. Careless expertly draws Toronto's stories together, creating an illuminating and entertaining portrait of the city. The text is complemented with more than 150 historical illustrations.

Author : John Sewell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098843
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of the Suburbs written by John Sewell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city.

Author : Jen Nelles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136458093
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Metropolitan Policy written by Jen Nelles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain cultural infrastructure in metropolitan regions. In this era of fragmented authority, local governments alone rarely possess the capacity to address these policy issues alone. This book explores the sources and barriers to cooperation and metropolitan policy making. It combines different streams of scholarship on regional governance to explain how and why metropolitan partnerships emerge and flourish in some places and fail to in others. It systematically tests this theory in the Frankfurt and Rhein-Neckar regions of Germany and the Toronto and Waterloo regions in Canada. Discovering that existing theories of metropolitan collective action based on institutions and opportunities are inconsistent, the author proposes a new theory of "civic capital", which argues that civic engagement and leadership at the regional scale can be important catalysts to metropolitan cooperation. The extent to which the actors hold a shared image of the metropolis and engage at that scale strongly influences the degree to which local authorities will be willing and able to coordinate policies for the collective development of the region. Metropolitan Governance and Policy will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative urban and metropolitan governance and sociology.

Author : Gregory S. Kealey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773513523
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers and Canadian History written by Gregory S. Kealey and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays by Gregory Kealey, will be of great interest to students and scholars of Canadian history, labour history, Marxist and socialist theory and history, and political science.

Author : Mike Filey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459712455
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toronto Sketches 9 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands and front porches on September 16, 1973. Since that day more than three decades ago, Mike’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the paper’s most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: The Way We Were by Dundurn Press. Since then another seven volumes of Toronto Sketches have been published, each of which has attained great success both with Toronto book buyers and with former Torontonians wishing to relive an earlier, gentler time in the city’s past. This ninth volume features a variety of stories, including a look at Toronto’s 1904 inferno, the birth of Rex Heslop’s Rexdale community, a visit to Sunnyside Amusement Park, and a few fascinating tales about the city’s streetcars.