Author: Armstrong, Frederick H.

A CITY IN THE MAKING. PROGRESS, PEOPLE & PERILS IN VICTORIAN TORONTO.

By: Armstrong, Frederick H.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn : 1988

Seller ID: 24299

ISBN-13: 9781550020267

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

358 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w illustrations and map endpapers. Contents: The New City in 1834: The Physical Layout; A Rising Metropolis; Developing Communications: The First Railway Venture; The Most Controversial Torontonian: William Lyon Mackenzie; The Scottish Immigrant, The Family Compact, and Vertical Mobility: The Rise of the Carfrae Family; Evolving Multiculturalism: The Toronto's Black Community in the Late 1840's; Capt. Hugh Richardson and Toronto's Lake Communications; An Ambulatory Architect: William Hay; The Unwitting Philanthropist: The Curious Case of Andrew Mercer; The First Grea...
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TORONTO: THE PLACE OF MEETING.

By: Armstrong, Frederick H. Foreword by J.M.S. Careless. "Partners in Progress" by Gordon Pitts, assisted by Geoffrey Simmins.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Canada, Windsor Publications / Ontario Historical Society : 1983

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 31051

ISBN-13: 9780897810777

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

304 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with photographs, reproductions, maps. "(P)aints a panoramic view of Toronto's history as it progressed from a French trading post and British Imperial garrison to the largest metropolis in Canada. With penetrating insight and compelling narrative, (the author) weaves the many strands of the city's past into a vivid tapestry - an appropriate gift for the city's 150th anniversary of incorporation. Spectacular events have punctuated Toronto's history: two captures in the War of 1812, a tragic-comic attack in the Rebellion of 1837, two g...
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RED-TAPE AND PIGEON-HOLE GENERALS: ANDREW A. HUMPHREYS IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

By: Arner, Frederick B., commentary. (William H. Armstrong.) Foreword by Charles T. Joyce.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Charlottesville, Virginia, Rockbridge : 1999

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24961

ISBN-13: 9781883522155

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

378 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. "Regarded as anonymously written fiction when it was originally published in 1864, this rollicking story of the way it was in the Union 's Army of the Potomac is a thinly disguised tale of truth. It is, in fact, a scathing attack on the character and military ability of Gen. Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. The author, Lt. Col. William H. Armstrong of the 129th Pennyslvania Volunteer Infantry, risked a libel action to send his message, yet he recognized that abuses within the system could not be addressed without first being expos...
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Author: Armstrong, Frederick H.

A CITY IN THE MAKING. PROGRESS, PEOPLE & PERILS IN VICTORIAN TORONTO.

TORONTO: THE PLACE OF MEETING.

RED-TAPE AND PIGEON-HOLE GENERALS: ANDREW A. HUMPHREYS IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.