City Planning & Urban Development
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From  Beyond a Bowl of Spaghetti:Lansky and Luciano From: Sweethearts |
1920-1949. Looks at Luciano and Lanskey who made their fortune during prohibition and how their operation entered toronto | Catherine Wismer | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From Boomtown TorontoFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s looks at appartment developers and the boom in high rise appartments in Toronto, which renewed commericial and downtown development | Catherine Wismer | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From Bubsey, Squeaky, Little Woody and the WeaselFrom: Sweethearts |
1930-1949. Looks at the life of a Italian in Toronto during this time period who was involved with illegal activity. Introduced to the Zanini family | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From DippersFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. Italian Immigration to Canada in the early 1950s their need to find work and finding jubs in construction. Explores the creation of unions for housing workers | Catherine Wismer | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
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From End of an EraFrom: Sweethearts |
1970s examines the slow down of growth due to regulations that had been put into place and the choice of some companys to team up with US companies where there was still a boom happening | Catherine Wismer | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From EpilogueFrom: Sweethearts |
A brief accounting of what happened to the key players in these chapters after the 1970s | Catherine Wismer | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From ForewardFrom: Sweethearts |
Explains the process that led to the mafia finding a way into the housing industry. Also points to the fact that the book is an ethnic history where Jews and Italians sought to break the … | Catherine Wismer | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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From Gus Simone, OrganizerFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s. Unions and the switch to drywall, work in commercial construction | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From Labour EmpiresFrom: Sweethearts |
1970s the decline of specific trade unions (ie plasterers) and the building trades council wants to achieve labour unity in the city | Catherine Wismer | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From No RegretsFrom: Sweethearts |
1970s Justice comes calling but there are no regrets, also dubious why some are called criminals and some not | Catherine Wismer | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
SweetheartsThe Builders, the Mob and the Men |
Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. … | Catherine Wismer | 272 | 2014 | View |
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From The Bahamas Adventure of C. Powell MorganFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s .The syndicate continues to refine methods of money laundering. Examines the Atlantic Acceptance Coorporation and its Bahamas hotel/casino developments | Catherine Wismer | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From The Bargain BuildersFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s the development of new building techniques that maximized profits by decreasing the need for skilled labour and finding cheaper materials. There are also inter-union disagreements for control | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From The Concrete Forming CampaignFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s formed concrete, residential unions and the international building trade unions | Catherine Wismer | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From The Harbord Class of ’33From: Sweethearts |
Looks at the Harbord Class of 1933, comprised of Jews, and the discrimmination they faced from Hitler supporters | Catherine Wismer | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From The Independent UnionFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s Zanini and his independent Canadian Union in Concrete Forming, acqusations of it being a front for the mob | Catherine Wismer | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
