Geography

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Smells

Smells

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Smells of the city/time 6 $0.60 Add
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Sounds

Sounds

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Sounds of the city/time 5 $0.50 Add
South End Boy

South End Boy

Growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s

In this memoir Jim Bennet introduces us to Halifax of the 1930s and ’40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs, chuffing freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader along with … 143 View
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Stores

Stores

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Stores in the city 8 $0.80 Add
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Student Minister, 1957 81

Student Minister, 1957 81

From: A Halifax Boyhood

While studying at Dalhousie University as a theologue, accepted by the United Church as a candidate for the ministry looks at a summer spent as the student minister at Val Marie Saskatchewan ; 3 $0.30 Add
Subdivided

Subdivided

City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

How do we build cities where we aren’t just living within the same urban space, but living together? Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any … 281 View
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Tangling with the Police

Tangling with the Police

From: How We Changed Toronto

1978-1981. I realized quite quickly that this was an opportunity, however difficult, to begin questioning deep-seated biases — particularly racism and homophobia — on the part of a … 26 $2.60 Add
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Tectonic Shift

Tectonic Shift

From: Shift Change

This chapter describes Hamilton as it once was: foundries belching iron oxide into the atmosphere, traffic jams driven by shift changes at factories, and workers toiling at all hours of the day … 25 $2.50 Add
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The Art of Negotiation

The Art of Negotiation

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

From: Umingmak

Readings in Part Four of this title, entitled "Turf Wars" discuss the challenges and conflicts faced by communities in the Northwest Territories during Stuart Hodgson’s career. … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Bighorn Basin
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The Bighorn Basin

From: Runaway Climate

The Bighorn Basin: (early Eocene in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming). The life and times of the first equid Sifrhippus. Overview of the late Cenozoic climate and the dramatic changes that took … 14 $1.40 Add
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THE BUSINESS OF SOLDIERING

THE BUSINESS OF SOLDIERING

From: Casa Loma

1895 – 1910. The social life, Pellatt as a colonel, to aldershot for the empire ; 7 $0.70 Add
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THE CASTLE FINDS A NEW LIFE

THE CASTLE FINDS A NEW LIFE

From: Casa Loma

1925 – 1940. The new life of the castle as an apartment-hotel, Kiwanis, and funeral march ; 6 $0.60 Add
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THE CASTLE ON THE HILL

THE CASTLE ON THE HILL

From: Casa Loma

1905 – 1914. The design and build of the castle ; 8 $0.80 Add
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The Contributors

The Contributors

From: Subdivided

Short biographies of each contributor. ; 3 $0.30 Add
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The "Creative Class" Creates a Global Urban Clash

The "Creative Class" Creates a Global Urban Clash

From: Shift Change

In this chapter, the author examines the relationship between Hamilton and Toronto, and how these two once-divided cities are now closely intertwined. The chapter also explores gentrification in … 53 $5.30 Add
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The Dingle, 1945–46 23

The Dingle, 1945–46 23

From: A Halifax Boyhood

Looks at The Dingle official sir Sanford Fleming Park and an incident that occurred their in his childhood 1945-46 ; 7 $0.70 Add