A Picture History of Ontario

234 Pages·1978·75.415 MB·English

by  Roger Hall & Gordon Dodds

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Here are the life and times of Ontario, from the first
arrival of the Loyalists in Upper Canada to the
present day, told in some four hundred pictures
with full explanatory captions and an illuminating
historical introduction.
All the pictures are contemporaneous with the times
they illustrate -there are no "reconstructions" or
"artists' conceptions." They portray not only the
public events, military and political, but the every­
day life of the ordinary people at work and play,
showing as no other book has done what it was like
to be an Upper Canadian or Ontarian in every
decade from the 1790s to the 1970s.
The material assembled by Roger Hall and Gordon
Dodds, both expert archivists, is fresh and mostly
unfamiliar; little of it has appeared in a book before.
It is a fortunate fact for early Ontario history that
photography began when the province was still at a
formative stage; the first generation of fine profes­
sional photographers were at their peak at the time
of Confederaion. And for the first half of the twen­
tierh century the authors have been able to draw on
the magnificent yet little-known James Collection in
the City of Toronto Archives.
This is the best possible short history of Ontario,
told in first-hand visual images.
Front jacket photograph: Ontario Archives s 1244

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A Picture History of
Ontario

A Picture History of
Ontario
RogerHall&Gordon Dodds
Hurtig Publishers
For Sandra and Marietta
Copyright ci 1978 by Roger Hall and Gordon Dodds
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A picture history of ornario
ISBN 088830 1634
1. Ontario -History -Pictorial works
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