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Author | : Carlie Oreskovich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Capitalists and financiers |
ISBN | : 9780968061107 |
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Author | : Freeman, Bill |
Publisher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2012-04-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1459400275 |
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The fascinating story of industrialist Sir Henry Pellatt and his lavish Toronto home
Author | : Kelly Rachelle Mathews |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1467138878 |
Download Road to Marylake, The Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the early 1900's a gentleman and financier named Sir Henry Mill Pellatt (builder of the famous 'Casa Loma' in Toronto) started to piece together several farms (1,214 acres) to create what he called Lake (or Lac) Marie Farm & Country Estate. The name Marie was to honor his first wife Lady Mary Pellatt (nee Dodgson). Designed to be a place of respite for high society, hunt events and highballs on the verandah (1911-1935) this land came into the ownership of a group of Basilian leaders who took this site of social indulgence and converted into "Marylake Agricultural School and Farm Settlement Association" (now 814 acres). On August 25, 1942, the Agricultural School sold to the Augustinian Father of Ontario (Inc.) and as such, Marylake Monastery, Retreat House and site of Pilgrimage was born.
Author | : Carlie Oreskovich |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Ryerson |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Capitalists and financiers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bill Freeman |
Publisher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1459400348 |
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This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of Casa Loma, Toronto's most famous historic site, and its owner, Sir Henry Pellatt. Casa Loma took 300 men three years to build at a cost of $3.5 million. Completed in 1914, the castle was enjoyed by Pellatt for only ten years before bankruptcy took it from his hands. Today, Casa Loma is owned and operated by the City of Toronto. This book includes a visual tour of the building as it is today, restored to its turn-of-the-century splendour. As well, author and historian Bill Freeman tells the colourful story of Pellatt's life, accompanied by a rich variety of archival images. Pellatt was an entrepreneurial and domineering Toronto financier with a central role in the city's financial life at the turn of the century. He lost his fortune and ended his days in very modest circumstances, but he left the city a dramatic landmark building. Author Bill Freeman takes readers on a full tour of this dramatic hillside castle, illustrated with full-colour photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo.
Author | : J.M.S. Careless |
Publisher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780888626646 |
Download Toronto to 1918 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Julia Skelly |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351539744 |
Download "The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600?010 " Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Directing unprecedented attention to how the idea of ?excess? has been used by both producers and consumers of visual and material culture, this collection examines the discursive construction of excess in relation to art, material goods and people in various global contexts. The contributors illuminate how excess has been perceived, quantified and constructed, revealing in the process how beliefs about excess have changed over time and how they have remained consistent. The collection as a whole underscores the fact that the concept of excess must always be considered critically, whether in scholarship or in lived experience. Although the idea of excess has often been used to shame and degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning, transgression and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a range of material, including diamonds, ceramics, paintings, dollhouses, caricatures, interior design and theatrical performances. Each case study sheds new light on how excess was used in a specific cultural context, including canonical sites of study such as the Netherlands in the eighteenth century, Victorian Britain and Paris in the 1920s, and under-studied contexts such as Canada and Sweden.
Author | : Matthew M. Reeve |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0228015677 |
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Leading architect E.J. Lennox designed Casa Loma for the flamboyant Sir Henry Pellatt and Mary, Lady Pellatt as an enormous castellated mansion that overlooked the booming metropolis of Toronto. The first scholarly book dedicated to this Canadian landmark, Casa Loma situates the famous “house on the hill” within Toronto’s architectural, urban, and cultural history. Casa Loma was not only an outsized home for the self-appointed “Lord Toronto” but a statement of Canada’s association with empire, an assertion of the country’s British legacy. During and after the Pellatts’ occupation, Casa Loma was a major landmark, and it has since infiltrated the iconography and collective memory of the metropolis. The reception of Casa Loma, variously loved and abhorred by Torontonians, reflects many of Toronto’s major aspirations and anxieties about itself as a modern city. Across ten chapters, this book charts the history of Casa Loma from the purchase of the estate atop Davenport Ridge in 1903 and its construction from 1906, through to its sale and the dispersal of its contents in 1924, its subsequent life as a hotel, and finally its transformation into one of the city’s major entertainment venues. Casa Loma brings to light a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival images and documentation of the house’s visual and material culture, weaving together a textured account of the design, use, and life of this unique building over the course of the twentieth century.
Author | : Kelly Mathews |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625854722 |
Download Eaton Hall Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1901, Florence McCrea married into one of the most prosperous families in the Dominion of Canada, becoming Lady Eaton fourteen years later when her husband, John Craig Eaton, was knighted. Not long after the death of her husband, Lady Eaton retired from her home in Toronto to the seventy-two-room, Norman-style chateau she had built on their King City property. She named it Eaton Hall. The estate fueled the local economy and community, supported the Canadian World War II effort and established a firm place in the hearts and minds of the residents of King Township. Rediscover an enchanting and bygone age with the life and history of Lady Eaton and her grand Eaton Hall.
Author | : Adam Bunch |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1459738071 |
Download The Toronto Book of the Dead Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the history of Toronto through the final moments of the famous (and infamous) who made it their final resting place. From ancient First Nations burial mounds to the murder of Toronto’s first lightkeeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist.