The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company: Sunday Streetcars and Municipal Reform in Toronto, 1888 - 1897
Author:   Christopher Armstrong ,  H. V. Nelles
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, Canada
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9780195443370


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 October 2010
Format:   Paperback
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The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company: Sunday Streetcars and Municipal Reform in Toronto, 1888 - 1897


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Author:   Christopher Armstrong ,  H. V. Nelles
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, Canada
Imprint:   Oxford University Press, Canada
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.216kg
ISBN:  

9780195443370


ISBN 10:   0195443373
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 October 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Preface to the Wynford Edition Preface to the First Edition 1: A Sense of Time and Place 2: Ned Clarke's Toronto 3: Senator Smith's Goldmine 4: The Sale of the Railway and the Purchase of the Council 5: Weathercocks and Flapdoodlers 6: A Business Man and a Business Plan 7: The City Virgin 8: Boodle Everywhere 9: The Redemption of the City 10: Organizing to Whip the Saints 11: The Unbluing of Toronto 12: The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company 13: Postscript Appendices Notes Index

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Christopher Armstrong is Professor of History at York University. His numerous books on Canadian history have won critical acclaim, and in 2002 he received the Ontario History Society JJ Talman Award for his study of Canadian capital markets in Moose Pastures and Mergers: The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980. H.V. Nelles is the L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University. He has written widely on Canada's history, and his book, The Art of Nation Building, won the Sir John A. MacDonald Prize for the Best Book in Canadian history and Le Prix Clio for the best book on Quebec history.

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