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Donald Jones'walking tours of Toronto have drawn crowds of up to 5000 at a time. His'Historic Toronto'column in the Star has proved one of the city's most widely read newspaper features. Now for the first time he has gathered together some of his personal favourites – stories of triumph and treachery, the celebrated and the notorious. The result is a richly entertaining collage of amazing and amusing tales of the city and its people. Here we learn that the first airmail plane in Canada landed in Toronto so loaded with liquor it could barely fly. We find out how a forgery by John Strachan brought tens of thousands of immigrants to the city. Jones recounts the visits to Toronto by great writers, including Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens, and tells of Torontonians who made international names for themselves, like Bea Lillie and Elizabeth Arden. Old mysteries still unsolved are reconsidered: Was the founder of Upper Canada College the real hero of the battle of Waterloo? How did Prince George, remembered in the name of the Princes'Gates, really die? Did Toronto's Captain Roy Brown in fact kill the Red Baron during'the most controversial 60 seconds in the history of aerial warfare'? At

Author

Donald Jones, 1924-

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802076977

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14