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Program Partners 

“I’m delighted to have Consolation chosen 

as the Toronto Public Library’s inaugural 

One Book. I consider the novel a love letter 

to Toronto and it thrills me to have it requited.” 

– Michael Redhill 

 

Jarvis Collegiate 

Sir Sandford Fleming Academy 

R.H. King Academy 

The York School

Join Toronto’s first annual 

community read project 

Imagine if everybody in Toronto were on the same page. 

Michael Redhill’s Toronto Book Award-winning novel Consolation 

is our first One Book selection. A haunting story of Toronto’s 

vanished past and changing present, Consolation digs beneath 

the surfaces of the city and its inhabitants to raise compelling 

questions about progress, loss and the nature of history. 

All month long, the Toronto Public Library and our partners 

throughout the city will be holding author events, book giveaways, 

walking tours, in-person and online discussions and more. 

Consult KeepTorontoReading.ca/onebook for dates, times, 

locations and details. 

Praise for Consolation 

“Some of the best historical fiction about Toronto… Home and 

muse, the city that has ignited Redhill’s imagination will captivate 

and haunt the imagination of readers of this luminous novel.” 

– Vancouver Sun 

“A beautiful and dreamy story, gorgeously written and movingly 

told, about the myriad ways the past lingers just below the 

surface of the present and inevitably shapes the future. It 

is the story of a family, but also the story of Toronto, a city 

that’s constantly re-creating itself and, in so doing, constantly 

shrugging off its awkward past. Redhill’s recreation of old 

Toronto is so vivid you can almost hear the rumble of carriage 

wheels on the cobblestones as you turn the pages.” 

– Calgary Herald

A warm welcome from the mayor 

One of the qualities that makes Toronto great is the vast range of 

opportunities it offers for cultural engagement and civic dialogue. 

I’m thrilled to support the latest addition to the city’s cultural life: 

Keep Toronto Reading One Book. 

The selection of Consolation as our first title not only celebrates 

our city, but also showcases the work of one of Toronto’s most 

talented authors. Michael Redhill’s novel raises many issues of 

great urgency to Toronto: can we reconcile the need to preserve 

the city’s past with its rapid growth? In a city constantly renewed 

by immigration, how do we create our environment, and how 

does it change us? How do we look after the needs of the most 

vulnerable among us? 

I look forward to all of us coming together to discuss these vital 

ideas and to celebrate the wealth of literature we have in Toronto. 

Mayor David Miller 

Rossin House, 1867. Octavius Thompson. 

Toronto Reference Library 

2 Michael Redhill Consolation

Josephine Bryant 

Kathy Gallagher Ross 

greetings from the Chief librarian 

and the Board chair 

For three years now, Keep Toronto Reading has brightened up 

the winter by bringing people together for the month of February 

to celebrate the joy of reading. This year, for the first time, we’re 

taking it a step further by inviting all of Toronto to join a city-wide 

book club. Welcome to Keep Toronto Reading One Book. 

We’re proud to present Michael Redhill’s wonderful novel, 

Consolation, as our first One Book selection. We’re sure that 

the people of Toronto will find much to discuss in this vivid, 

complex and moving story of the city’s past and present. 

We, and our partners across the city, invite you to participate 

in the many events exploring and celebrating Consolation 

throughout the month. Borrow one of our many copies of the 

book, come out to a reading, a panel discussion, or a walking 

tour and see what it’s like when everybody’s on the same page. 

Chief Librarian, 

Toronto Public Library 

Chair, Toronto Public 

Library Board 

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About Consolation 

There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it… Mouths capable of 

speaking to us. But we stop them up with concrete and build over them and 

whatever it is they wanted to say gets whispered down empty alleys and turns 

into wind… 

These are among the last words of Professor David Hollis before he throws 

himself off a ferry into the frigid waters of Lake Ontario. A renowned professor 

of forensic geology, David leaves in his wake both a historical mystery and an 

academic scandal. He postulated that on the site where a sports arena is about 

to be built lie the ruins of a Victorian boat containing an extraordinary treasure: 

a strongbox full of hundreds of never-seen photographs of early Toronto, a 

priceless record of a lost city. His colleagues, however, are convinced that he 

faked his research materials. 

Determined to vindicate him, his widow, Marianne, sets up camp in a hotel 

overlooking the construction site, watching and waiting for the boat to be 

unearthed. The only person to share her vigil is John Lewis, fiancé to her 

daughter, Bridget. An orphan who had come to love David as his own father, 

John finds himself caught in a struggle between mother and daughter, all the 

while keeping a dark secret from both women. 

Interwoven into the contemporary story is another narrative set in 1850s 

Toronto: the tale of Jem Hallam, a young apothecary struggling to make a living 

in the harsh new city so he can bring his wife and daughters from England. 

Crushed by ruthless competitors, he develops an unlikely friendship with two 

other down-on-their-luck Torontonians: Samuel Ennis, a brilliant but dissolute 

Irishman, and Claudia Rowe, a destitute widow. Together they establish a 

photography business and set out to create images of a fledgling city where 

wooden sidewalks are put together with penny nails; where Indians spear 

salmon at the river mouth and the occasional bear ambles down King Street; 

where department stores display international wares and fine mansions sit 

cheek-by-jowl with shantytowns. 

Consolation moves back and forth between David Hollis’s legacy and Jem 

Hallam’s struggle to survive, ultimately revealing a mysterious connection 

between the two narratives. Exquisitely crafted and masterfully written, Michael 

Redhill’s superlative book reveals how history is often transformed into a species 

of fantasy, and how time alters the contours of even the things we hold most 

certain. As complex and layered as the city whose story it tells, Consolation 

evokes the mysteries of love and memory, and what suffering the absence of the 

beloved truly means. 


Photo of Michael Redhill: Cylla Von Tiedemann 

About the Author 

Michael Redhill is the publisher and one of the editors of Brick, a 

literary magazine; the author of the novel Martin Sloane, a finalist 

for the 2001 Giller Prize; and the short story collection Fidelity. 

He has also written four poetry collections, including Asphodel, 

published in 1997, and Light-Crossing, published in 2001. His 

most recent works for the theatre are Goodness and Building 

Jerusalem, winner of a Dora Award. 

Consolation, Redhill’s second novel, was awarded the 2007 

Toronto Book Award and nominated for the 2007 Man Booker 

prize. 

Michael Redhill is currently spending a year in France with his 

partner and their two sons. 


Looking north-east (left and middle) and east on King (p. 7) from the top of the Rossin House, 

circa 1856. Armstrong, Beere & Hime. Toronto Reference Library and City of Toronto Archives 

“I knew there was something in the pictures I wanted to write about. 

But the more I scribbled things down, the more I began to recognize a 

resonance between that dead city, no stitch of which exists anymore, 

and modern Toronto.” 

– Michael Redhill 

Jem Hallam’s Toronto 

Barbara Myrvold, Librarian and Historian, Toronto Public Library 

When Jem Hallam, hero of Michael Redhill’s Consolation, arrived 

in Toronto in 1856, he came to a city on the verge of great 

change, one that would be almost unrecognizable to residents 

today. At the time, the city was essentially bordered by Dufferin 

Street, Lake Ontario, the Don River and Bloor Street. 

With 30,775 residents in 1851, it was the largest city in 

Canada West (now Ontario), but was considerably smaller than 

Montreal (57,715) and Quebec City (42,052) in Canada East. 

Although growth had slowed from the previous two decades, 

Toronto’s population still increased almost 45 percent between 

1851 and 1861, when the city’s population reached 44,821. 

Some of Toronto’s most striking buildings went up in the late 

1840s and 1850s, including the Provincial Lunatic Asylum and 

Trinity College on Queen Street West near the city limits, Toronto 

Mechanics’ Institute (the predecessor of Toronto Public Library), 

St. Michael’s Cathedral, St. Lawrence Hall, St. James Cathedral 

and University College, to name a few. Several of these buildings 

survive to enrich today’s Toronto. 


Michael Redhill’s inspiration for Consolation included a panoramic series of 

photographs taken in 1856 from atop the Rossin House Hotel, located at the 

corner of King and York Streets until 1969. See the photos that inspired Redhill 

on display at Toronto Reference Library and City of Toronto Archives in February. 

Toronto’s People 

Despite his initial loneliness and isolation, the fictional Hallam 

shared a similar background and experiences with the majority of 

Torontonians of the time. With two-thirds born outside of Canada 

in 1851, Toronto was a city of immigrants. Ninety percent of the 

newcomers had emigrated from Great Britain. The so-called 

“foreign-born,” those whose birthplace was neither Canada nor 

Britain, came from the United States, Germany, Holland and “all 

other places.” 

These modest numbers increased over time, as did the variety 

of source countries, contributing to the city’s diversity. Toronto’s 

Black population swelled to 526 residents in 1851; Canada 

became a safe haven once the United States passed the Fugitive 

Slave Act (1850). 

Religion reflected the Anglo-Celtic origin of most Torontonians. 

Three-quarters were Protestant in 1851. The Church of England 

comprised the largest group with 37 percent. The exodus from 

famine-stricken Ireland in the late 1840s had given Toronto a 

sizeable Roman Catholic population (25 per cent in 1851). Jews, 

the only non-Christians, formed less than one percent, but their 

population tripled during the decade from 57 to 153 in 1861. 

The Changing Face of Toronto 

Immigration was not the only force changing the city. Toronto 

entered the railway era on May 16, 1853 when the Toronto 

steam-engine of the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron Railroad pulled 

four cars to Machell’s Corners (Aurora); by the end of the 

decade, service extended in all directions — to Collingwood on 


the Northern, to Sarnia and Montreal on the Grand Trunk, and via 

the Great Western’s Hamilton link, to London and the American 

Midwest. 

As its regional reach extended more widely, the city’s 

commercial institutions also grew. The Toronto Stock Exchange 

was established in 1852, the Canada Permanent Buildings 

and Savings Society in 1855 and the Bank of Toronto in 1856. 

Reflecting this rising prosperity, the Rossin House, a five-storey 

luxury hotel, opened at King and York in May 1857. Hand in hand 

with these developments, Toronto suffered a severe crash in 1857, 

and the economic downturn lasted well into the early 1860s. 

The physical face of the city began to change, as Toronto 

became the main railway hub of Canada West. The railways’ 

need for land led to a 100-foot landfill strip across the harbour in 

the mid-1850s, the beginning of the eastern Esplanade and the 

first of many lakefills, which would gradually move the shoreline 

southwards. 

Industrial and residential areas started to separate, at least 

for the more affluent. By 1851, most Torontonians lived north of 

Queen. For the wealthy, Rosedale was planned in 1854 with villa 

lots on winding streets — the first break from Toronto’s historic 

grid pattern. Migration north (and west) continued in the 1850s, 

as the gentry subdivided original park lots between Queen and 

Bloor and laid out new streets, targeting working and middle 

classes. Slums including Macauleytown became more congested 

as poor immigrants crammed into shoddy shanty dwellings. 

Growth of Services 

In spite of poverty and crowding, the crumbling, fire-prone slums 

where Hallam first meets Ennis and Rowe in Consolation were 

changing in the 1850s, as government services and regulations 

increased. Sewers and gaslights, installed on many streets 

in the 1840s, were expanded to new areas. Roads were laid 

with macadam and sidewalks with plank boards. Following the 

great fire of 1849, the city required new development in the 

downtown area to be more fire-resistant. Nevertheless, almost 

three-quarters of Toronto’s 8,438 houses were frame in 1861, 

although the proportion of brick dwellings was increasing and 

shanties had disappeared; fewer than 40 houses were stone. 

Four fire stations operated in 1856; steam-powered fire engines 

replaced hand-pumped machines by 1861. 


There was… a science to determining how time passes. Human beings 

interrupt the natural cycles of growth and decay with their communities 

and their structures, but they don’t stop those cycles. Rather, the 

process is continued, like river water flowing around a stone. Except 

the river water is made of cities and buildings, and the stone is pushed 

underground and lost forever… 

– Consolation 

Work and Leisure 

Torontonians worked at many jobs in the 1850s, with labourers 

and female servants comprising the two largest groups. The 

fictional Hallam’s occupations expanded over the course of the 

decade; the number of “chemists, druggists and apothecaries” 

doubled from 29 to 57, while four “daguerrists” were transformed 

into 12 “photographists.” Armstrong & Beere, the real-life firm 

who took the photographs of Toronto that inspired Consolation, 

advertised itself in 1855-6 as “Engineers, Draughtsmen and 

Photographists over Simpson & Dunspaugh, Chemists, King 

Street.” (A third ‘photographist’, Humphrey Lloyd Hime, joined the 

firm in 1857.) 

King Street was the city’s main commercial, cultural and 

ceremonial thoroughfare. Toronto’s three daily newspapers were 

located there – George Brown’s Globe, James Beaty’s Leader 

and the Colonist, edited by Samuel Thompson. St. Lawrence 

Hall, on King East, offered sophisticated activities including 

recitals by the Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind, and lectures by 

the American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. The Royal Lyceum 

Theatre, next to the Rossin House, was a principal stop for 

touring companies. 

Travelling circuses led parades through the city to the Fair 

Green on the lakeshore. People danced the Elephant Polka 

and the Grand Trunk Mazurka at charity and military balls. In the 

summertime, pleasure steamers went to Toronto Island (actually 

a peninsula until a violent storm in 1858). There was a wide 

variety of societies to support the less fortunate, including the 

“deserving” and “undeserving” poor. For some, social activities 

centred at the city’s 35 churches, while for others leisure hours 

were spent at Toronto’s 200 hotels, taverns and saloons. 


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Toronto 1856 

Detail from Plan of the City of Toronto, 

Charles Unwin, 1858. Toronto Reference 

Library 

You can also explore Toronto then and 

now with our online, interactive map at 

KeepTorontoReading.ca/onebook

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Legend of COnsolation locations 1. J. Hallam, Apothecary 

2. Rossin House Hotel 3. Browne’s Wharf 4. Parliament Buildings 

5. Osgoode Hall 6. Samuel Ennis’s Shanty 7. Jem Hallam’s Rooms

Gould Street Presbyterian Church, circa 1856. Photo by Armstrong, 

Beere and Hime. City of Toronto Archives. 

Excerpt from Consolation 

…He remembered freshly his first glimpse of the city, as the 

ferry came around the western side of the island that lay off its 

shore: a vision of spires and yellow brick and white stone set 

against a wall of trees. And from that distance — even as the ferry 

bore down on Brown’s Wharf at the foot of Yonge Street — the 

seeming feebleness of the little twists of smoke and steam rising 

up from different buildings, Lilliputian industry while all around 

it raw nature went about its effortless business. Who thinks of 

making a city in the rough? he’d thought, seeing the place for the 

first time, and he knew from the expressions on the faces of the 

newly arrived that this was the wondering thing that occurred to 

everyone that made landfall here. 

Some greater shocks were in store for those brave enough 

to leave their ships. Streets paved with little more than the 

accumulation of grit pressed into them by boots. Wooden

Osgoode Hall, circa 1856. Photo by Armstrong, Beere and Hime. 

City of Toronto Archives. 

“I doubt a four-foot piece of the True Cross would be enough to 

stop work on a site in this city. You find a three-week-old potato 

chip in Montreal, they raise a velvet rope around it and have a 

minute of silence. But here, no.” 

sidewalks put together with penny nails. Tar-acrid log shanties 

with bank buildings made of Kingston stone in their backyards. 

German and French spoken freely in the streets and canoes out 

in the lake with actual Indians in them, spearing salmon at the 

river mouth. Then that same lake, frozen to stillness between 

December and April, ice-clenched with nothing coming in or out 

of it. And centred in it, with misplaced pride, a stuttering attempt 

at making an English town out of nothing, like a voice straining to 

be heard from a great distance. It would actually be funny, Hallam 

had thought, if he didn’t have to live here. 

Excerpt from Consolation by Michael Redhill. Copyright © 2006 Caribou River Ltd. 

Published by Doubleday Canada. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. 

All rights reserved. 

For a digitized and annotated excerpt from the book, 

go to KeepTorontoReading.ca/onebook 


Questions for Discussion 

1. In an interview with Toronto Life, Michael Redhill said that he 

wrote Consolation out of love and anger. How do you see 

these two motivations at play in the novel? 

2. Marianne says to John: “You make no choices. You allow 

yourself to be moved by other things… You’re like powder 

that has to have some ingredient added to make it active.” 

Do you agree with her judgment or do you think she’s too 

hard on John? How does John grow as a character over the 

course of the novel? 

3. John says to Marianne, with respect to her husband, “You 

loved him, but you didn’t accept him.” Would you call this a 

fair comment and why or why not? 

4. Why do you think the author chose to leave the end of the 

novel open? How would the stories continue in your view? 

Does Jem return to Toronto to be with Claudia? Can John 

and Bridget ever pick up where they left off? 

5. Do you think that the character Howard Rosen is correct in 

thinking that Sam was based on him? 

6. “Time was linear: it went forward and back. But up and 

down was organic, it was growth and decay.” Discuss the 

theme of time in relation to photography, urban development 

and the characters’ subjective experiences. 

7. What resonances, if any, did you notice between the 

historical and contemporary narratives? 

8. Both David Hollis and Jem Hallam comment on the isolation 

experienced by Torontonians. For David, it’s a symptom of 

modernity. For Jem, it’s the result of a harsh climate. Do you 

agree with either view? 

9. Both David Hollis and Sam Ennis, as dying men, describe 

themselves as lucky. Why do you think they feel this way? 


10. David asks John, “Do you think you’re awake?” What 

does he mean by that? How would you answer that same 

question? 

11. Discuss the role of family in Consolation, especially with 

respect to John and Jem. 

12. Do you think the struggles of Victorian and modern-day 

Toronto are all that different? Why or why not? 

13. How does the Toronto depicted in Consolation compare 

with the view you have of the city either first-hand, or 

through other books you’ve read or movies you’ve seen? 

Did the novel change the way you look at your own 

community — its past, present and future? 

14. Loss permeates the novel — loss of life, love and the 

remnants of the past. How do the main characters cope 

with loss? How are they consoled? 

15. Were you surprised to find out who narrates Jem Hallam’s 

story? How did the discovery affect your reading of the 

novel as a whole? 

16. Jem refused to mail his letters to his family because they 

were “full of lies too egregious for sending.” Howard Rosen 

described John’s manuscript as “trying to fix a lie with 

another lie.” Discuss the role of deceit in the novel. 

17. Both Jem and David are faced with tremendously difficult 

decisions: Jem, to let Claudia stay with him or fend for 

herself; John, whether or not to drive David to the ferry 

docks — and his death. Do you think each character makes 

the right choice? 


Court Street Firehall, 1860. 

Toronto Reference Library 

Events 

Meet the author 

Celebrate the launch of our first One Book program featuring 

music by Mary Lou Fallis, dramatic readings, and a discussion 

with Consolation author Michael Redhill. 

Monday, February 4, 7 p.m., Toronto Reference Library 

Bring your copy of Consolation to a candle-lit dinner with 

Michael Redhill at historic Gibson House and experience Toronto 

as it was in the 1850s. 

$25. Pre-payment and pre-registration required. 

Phone 416-395-7432 for reservations. 

Tuesday, February 5, 7 p.m., Gibson House Museum, 

5172 Yonge St., North York Centre Subway 

Book signing with Michael Redhill. 

Wednesday, February 6, 1:30 p.m., Nicholas Hoare Books, 

45 Front St. E. 

Join Toronto Public Library book club members in an informal 

chat with the author of Consolation. 

Wednesday, February 6, 6:30 p.m., North York Central Library, 

Concourse. Open to all. 

Submit your questions to author Michael Redhill at our online 

book club: bookbuzz.torontopubliclibrary.ca. 


Experience the Book 

Book Talks 

Ryerson professor and book lover Suanne Kelman presents an 

in-depth look at Consolation. 

Thursday, February 7, 2 p.m., Brentwood Branch 

Thursday, February 7, 7 p.m., Beaches Branch 

Tuesday, February 12, 7 p.m., Don Mills Branch 

Friday, February 22, 1:30 p.m., Agincourt Branch 

Lost City 

Preservationists and developers debate Toronto’s past and future. 

Monday, February 11, 7 p.m., St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King St. E. 

First Days 

A panel of immigrant writers – including authors Shyam 

Selvadurai and Goran Simic — discuss their early days in Toronto, 

and share memories of the hope and the loneliness of arrival in a 

new city. 

Wednesday, February 13, 7 p.m., Parkdale Branch 

In the Footsteps of the Black Victorians – A Walking Tour 

Saturday, February 16, 1 to 3 p.m., St. Lawrence Market. 

Mackenzie House admission of $4 applies. Please RSVP. 

Call 416-392-6915 for details. 

All Month: 

• Visit KeepTorontoReading.ca/onebook to download Michael 

Redhill’s audio walking tour and to view an annotated and 

illustrated virtual chapter of Consolation 

• Check out CBC Radio’s Here and Now with Matt Galloway and 

the Toronto Star for One Book news and programs 

• Visit Spacing Toronto at spacing.ca/toronto for articles from 

contributing writers about Consolation’s Toronto 

• Discuss Consolation at the Toronto Public Library’s online book 

club: bookbuzz.torontopubliclibrary.ca 

• Check KeepTorontoReading.ca/onebook for updated details 

and new activities 


Parliament Buildings, circa 1856. 

Photo by Armstrong, Beere and Hime. 

Toronto Reference Library and City of 

Toronto Archives. 

Exhibits 

See Toronto in pictures as 

it was in the 1850s. 

• View the photographs that inspired Consolation at the Toronto 

Reference Library or the City of Toronto Archives. 

• Visit Toronto Culture Division’s exhibits, A Glimpse of Black Life 

in Victorian Toronto, 1850-1860 and The Black Press in Canada 

West at the Toronto Reference Library. 

• See virtual exhibits of Victorian Toronto online at 

historicity.torontopubliclibrary.ca: 

• All Aboard Toronto! Railways and the Growth of the City 

• Toronto: A Place of Meeting 


Toronto Public Library’s Book Clubs are 

located across the City 

Agincourt 

Albert Campbell 

Alderwood 

Annette 

Beaches 

Bendale 

Bloor/Gladstone 

Brentwood 

Cedarbrae 

Cliffcrest 

Danforth/Coxwell 

Davenport 

Deer Park 

Don Mills 

Downsview 

Eatonville 

Eglinton Square 

Elmbook Park 

Fairview 

Forest Hill 

Goldhawk Park 

Guildwood 

High Park 

Leaside 

Locke Branch 

Long Branch 

Malvern 

McGregor Park 

Mimico 

Morningside 

Mount Pleasant 

New Toronto 

Northern District 

Northern Elms 

North York 

Central Library 

Palmerston 

Pape/Danforth 

Parliament 

Port Union 

Rexdale 

Richview 

Riverdale 

Runnymede 

S. Walter Stewart 

Sanderson 

Spadina 

St. Lawrence 

Taylor Memorial 

Weston 

Wychwood 

York Woods 

Yorkville 

Book Buzz, an online Book Club 

Join us for an online discussion of Consolation by going to 

www.torontopubliclibrary.ca and clicking on Book Clubs. 


Further Reading 

Other Works by Michael Redhill 

Fiction 

Martin Sloane 

Doubleday, 2001 

Fidelity 

Doubleday, 2003 

Drama 

Building Jerusalem 

Playwrights Union Canada, 2001 

Goodness 

Coach House Press, 2005 

Poetry 

Impromptu Feats of Balance 

Wolsak and Wynn, 1990 

Lake Nora Arms 

Coach House Press, 1993; 

House of Anansi, 2001 

Asphodel 

McClelland & Stewart, 1997 

Light-Crossing 

House of Anansi, 2001 

Related Books 

Fiction 

Alias Grace 

Margaret Atwood 


Baldwin Street 

Alvin Rakoff 

Bunim & Bannigan Ltd., 2007 

Cabbagetown 

Hugh Garner 

McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1978, 2003 

The City Man 

Howard Akler 

Coach House Press, 2005 

In the Skin of a Lion 

Michael Ondaatje 


Natasha and Other Stories 

David Bezmozgis 

Harper Flamingo Canada, 2004 

This Ain’t No Healing Town 

edited by Barry Callaghan 

Exile Editions, 1995 

Under the Dragon’s Tail, Poor Tom is 

Cold, A Journeyman to Grief 

and other mysteries 

Maureen Jennings 

McClelland & Stewart 

What We All Long For 

Dionne Brand 

Knopf Canada, 2005 

Witness to Life 

Terence M. Green 

Tom Doherty Assoc., 1999 

Non-fiction 

Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors, 1880s to 1920s 

Sally Gibson 

Cormorant Books, 2006 

I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the 

Underground Railroad 

Karolyn Smardz Frost 

Thomas Allen, 2007 

Lost Toronto 

William Dendy 

Oxford University Press, 1978 

Toronto to 1918: An Illustrated History 

J.M.S. Careless 

James Lorimer & Co., 1984 

A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City That Was 

Mike Filey 

Dundurn Group, 2001 

Toronto, No Mean City 

Eric Arthur 

University of Toronto Press, 1986 


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