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Clicking on the title of an item takes you to the bibliographic page for the resource, which typically also contains an abstract, a link to the full text if it is available online, and links to related topics in the subject index. You can find items through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Ashbridge's Bay
    An Anthology of Writings by Those Who Knew and Loved Ashbridge's Bay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    The story of a great freshwater marsh destroyed by urbanization.
  2. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
  3. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
  4. The East York Workers' Association
    A Response to the Great Depression
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  5. From Politics to Profit
    The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
  6. Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
    New Communities and the Institutional Church
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
  7. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  8. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
  9. Monographs on the Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
  10. P.I.S.E.M. Materials
    Questions Immigrants Raise; Immigrant Life in Toronto; Themes for English language training of Portuguese
    Resource Type: Slide Show
    First Published: 1977
    Audio-visual materials designed for use in small groups with immigrants to give them information about dealing with alienating elements in their environment.
  11. Remembering the Don
    A Rare Record of Earlier Times Within the Don River Valley
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  12. The Riot at Christie Pits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  13. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  14. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
  15. Seven News: Principles & Purposes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    Statement of principles of Seven News, a community newspaper.
  16. Sewell, John
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (Born 1940). Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980.
  17. Taddle Creek Watershed Initiative
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A grassroots alliance working to give new life to Taddle Creek, hidden at the heart of Toronto. Their vision is to 'bring back' parts of the creek by; cleaning the water and revegetating/naturalizing this severely degraded and buried watershed. We also wish to recognize and respect a buried human heritage.
  18. Toronto Public Library Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An on-line catalogue of more than one million books, serials, government documents, maps, scores, sound recordings and other materials. Extensive Canadiana and Toronto and Ontario local history sections. The library's Answerline provides responses to E-mail enquiries on basic factual questions which don't require in-depth research.
  19. Up Against City Hall
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  20. Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973

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