The Toronto Book of the Dead
Published on 16. September 2017
422 pages
978-1-4597-3808-9 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring Toronto's history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths.
If these streets could talk...
With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto's past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto's first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city's greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world's most notorious anarchist.
Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.
If these streets could talk...
With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto's past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto's first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city's greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world's most notorious anarchist.
Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.
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Adam Bunch
The Toronto Book of the Dead
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Dundurn Group Ltd
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Adam Bunch is the creator of the Toronto Dreams Project, and has written about the history of the city for Spacing Magazine, Torontoist and the Huffington Post. In 2012, he earned an honourable mention for a Governor General's History Award. Adam lives in Toronto.
Content
Foreword: Toronto's Dead History Is Quite Alive by Shawn Micallef
Introduction
Founding
1. The Feast of the Dead
2. The Beaver Wars
3. Elizabeth Simcoe's Nightmare
4. The Murder of Chief Wabakinine
5. The Town's First Hanging and How It Went Wrong
6. Whatever Happened to Peggy Pompadour?
The War of 1812
7. The Battle of York
8. The Bloody Burlington Races
9. The True Story of Toronto's Island Ghost
Democracy
10. The Deadly Duel
11. The Blue Death
12. Revolution! Ish!
13. The Grisly Grave of Robert Baldwin
The Booming Metropolis
14. Black '47 in the Orange City
15. Abraham Lincoln's Shawl
16. Cannonball
17. A Brief History of the Pigeons of Toronto
18. The Tooth
19. The Crooked Knight of Casa Loma
The Great Wars
20. The Group of Seven on the Western Front
21. The Night of the Drowning Nurses
22. The Great Beyond
23. The Most Dangerous Woman in the World
24. I'll Never Smile Again
25. Journey's End
26. How Toppy Topham Died
27. Toronto Hearts Stalingrad
The Modern City
28. Disaster!
29. Neil Young's Hearse and a Dead Man's Name
30. Shoeshine Boy
31. No Sad Songs
32. The Falling Lawyer
Conclusion: The Work of Remembering
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
Introduction
Founding
1. The Feast of the Dead
2. The Beaver Wars
3. Elizabeth Simcoe's Nightmare
4. The Murder of Chief Wabakinine
5. The Town's First Hanging and How It Went Wrong
6. Whatever Happened to Peggy Pompadour?
The War of 1812
7. The Battle of York
8. The Bloody Burlington Races
9. The True Story of Toronto's Island Ghost
Democracy
10. The Deadly Duel
11. The Blue Death
12. Revolution! Ish!
13. The Grisly Grave of Robert Baldwin
The Booming Metropolis
14. Black '47 in the Orange City
15. Abraham Lincoln's Shawl
16. Cannonball
17. A Brief History of the Pigeons of Toronto
18. The Tooth
19. The Crooked Knight of Casa Loma
The Great Wars
20. The Group of Seven on the Western Front
21. The Night of the Drowning Nurses
22. The Great Beyond
23. The Most Dangerous Woman in the World
24. I'll Never Smile Again
25. Journey's End
26. How Toppy Topham Died
27. Toronto Hearts Stalingrad
The Modern City
28. Disaster!
29. Neil Young's Hearse and a Dead Man's Name
30. Shoeshine Boy
31. No Sad Songs
32. The Falling Lawyer
Conclusion: The Work of Remembering
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
