Convicts and Clerics
Toronto 1910: Book One
180 pages |
March 26, 2016
ISBN: ###-#-##-######-#
Price: USD $17.50
Available 2019
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DESCRIPTION: Discover the unknown world of the worst twentieth century hellhole prison (The Central Prison for Men, 1870-1915) in Canada— in what is now Liberty Village in downtown Toronto—and the explosive riot that brought it, its management, and correctional practices to their knees. Social justice from the vantage point of convicts, corrupt jail guards, struggles over prison reform, unequal justice for rich and poor, and innocent prisoners. Based on prison diaries, punishment records, sensational newspaper accounts, and magistrate court documents.
CONTENTS: Central Prison for Men, Evening News, Incarceration or redemption, Mercer Reformatory, Methodist Church, New Fort, Ontario Hospital for the Insane, Ontario Legislature, penal reform, punishment flogging blocks, Salvation Army, Toronto Star, and the United Church |
Grocers and Gangsters
Toronto 1910: Book Two
200 pages |
March 30, 2016
ISBN: ###-#-##-######-#
Price: USD $17.50
Available 2020
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DESCRIPTION: Relive the tensions in Toronto as a mongoloid immigrant teen is accused of arson, robbery and murder in a tale that exposes corrupt politicians, powerful magistrates, overworked Toronto detectives, a vicious sociopath, and the assistant warden at the notorious Central Prison for Men. Read about justice denied from the point of view of a Jewish immigrant family, a Scots newspaper vendor, influential lawyers and public servants, and a city demanding protection from home invasions and violence. Will a mother’s love, a stressed detective, and a psychiatrist save an innocent boy from execution or prison?
CONTENTS: Emigration Sheds, Finger printing, William Gage Institute, Goal Tzedec Synagogue, Grocery trade, Infant mortality, Inner city slums, Jewish shopkeepers, McCaul Street Synagogue, Mongoloids, Newsies, Office of the Attorney General of Ontario, Ontario Legislature, Piece work in the clothing industry, Scots immigrants, Spadina Avenue, the Toronto Public School Board, The Ward, Weston Sanitarium. |
Pressmen and Politicians
Toronto 1910: Book Three
220 pages |
April 28, 2016
ISBN: ###-#-##-######-#
Price: USD $19.50
Available 2021
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DESCRIPTION: A set of mysteries involving corruption, kidnappings, and the murder of a policeman has Toronto in thrall and terror. Follow two members of Toronto’s police department, as they investigate murder and corruption. Will Toronto’s finest be able to apprehend deranged kidnappers, end corruption in City Hall, arrest procurers of abortions, fend off powerful politicians, propertied business landowners, and newspaper barons, as well as end the illicit sale of confidential development documents?
CONTENTS: Blacks in Toronto, City Council, Globe and Mail, Jitneys, Mission to the Jews, Black Music in Toronto, Orange Order, Pinkerton Detective Agency, Slum landlords, Social clubs, subway development scheme of 1910, The Orange Parade, The Ward, Timothy Eaton Company, Toronto’s Department of Detectives, Toronto Star, Tuberculosis epidemic, William Neilson Company |
Healers & Humanitarians
Toronto 1910: Book Four
260 pages |
June 1, 2016
ISBN: ###-#-##-######-#
Price: USD $19.50
Available 2022
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DESCRIPTION: Discover the worlds of philanthropists, dedicated volunteers, and a range of committed health care professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, and social workers) who are trying to combat poverty, abortions, slum housing and a host of diseases including typhus, smallpox, influenza and venereal disease. See large heroes and individual altruistic leaders among Toronto’s 20,000 Jews struggle with professional career barriers, public racism, and inhospitable hospitals, as well as systemic discrimination in professions such as medicine, nursing, education, dentistry and law.
CONTENTS: Abuses in mental hospitals, anti-immigration politics, Chevra kedusha (Jewish burial society), Chinese immigrants, Ezrat Noshim, Feeble-mindness in Canada, Hebrew Ladies Maternity Aid and Child Welfare Society, the Jewish Dispensary, Labour Lyceum, Landsmanschaft societies, Lodge doctors, McCaul Street Synagogue, Moral discipline, Moshav Zekanim (Jewish Home for the Aged—Baycrest Hospital), Mount Sinai Women’s Auxiliary, Provincial Department of Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Summer camps Stephen Leacock, Synagogues, The Jewish Orphanage, the Hebrew Hospital (Mt Sinai), the Jewish Federation, the Ward, Toronto Department of Public Health, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Jewish Convalescent and Maternity Hospital, United Bakers, University College, University of Toronto, Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, George Weston Model Bakery, Women’s College Hospital, Yiddish writers |
