The Perilous Escape of William Lyon Mackenzie December 7 to 11, 1837 Christopher Raible
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Toward City Charters in Canada
Journal of Law and Social Policy Volume 34 Toronto v Ontario: Implications for Canadian Local Democracy Guest Editors: Alexandra Flynn & Mariana Article 8 Valverde 2021 Toward City Charters in Canada John Sewell Chartercitytoronto.ca Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp Part of the Law Commons Citation Information Sewell, John. "Toward City Charters in Canada." Journal of Law and Social Policy 34. (2021): 134-164. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp/vol34/iss1/8 This Voices and Perspectives is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Osgoode Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Law and Social Policy by an authorized editor of Osgoode Digital Commons. Sewell: Toward City Charters in Canada Toward City Charters in Canada JOHN SEWELL FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, there has been discussion about how cities in Canada can gain more authority and the freedom, powers, and resources necessary to govern their own affairs. The problem goes back to the time of Confederation in 1867, when eighty per cent of Canadians lived in rural areas. Powerful provinces were needed to unite the large, sparsely populated countryside, to pool resources, and to provide good government. Toronto had already become a city in 1834 with a democratically elected government, but its 50,000 people were only around three per cent of Ontario’s 1.6 million. Confederation negotiations did not even consider the idea of conferring governmental power to Toronto or other municipalities, dividing it instead solely between the soon-to-be provinces and the new central government. -
Canada Needs You Volume One
Canada Needs You Volume One A Study Guide Based on the Works of Mike Ford Written By Oise/Ut Intern Mandy Lau Content Canada Needs You The CD and the Guide …2 Mike Ford: A Biography…2 Connections to the Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum…3 Related Works…4 General Lesson Ideas and Resources…5 Theme One: Canada’s Fur Trade Songs: Lyrics and Description Track 2: Thanadelthur…6 Track 3: Les Voyageurs…7 Key Terms, People and Places…10 Specific Ministry Expectations…12 Activities…12 Resources…13 Theme Two: The 1837 Rebellion Songs: Lyrics and Description Track 5: La Patriote…14 Track 6: Turn Them Ooot…15 Key Terms, People and Places…18 Specific Ministry Expectations…21 Activities…21 Resources…22 Theme Three: Canadian Confederation Songs: Lyrics and Description Track 7: Sir John A (You’re OK)…23 Track 8: D’Arcy McGee…25 Key Terms, People and Places…28 Specific Ministry Expectations…30 Activities…30 Resources…31 Theme Four: Building the Wild, Wild West Songs: Lyrics and Description Track 9: Louis & Gabriel…32 Track 10: Canada Needs You…35 Track 11: Woman Works Twice As Hard…36 Key Terms, People and Places…39 Specific Ministry Expectations…42 Activities…42 Resources…43 1 Canada Needs You The CD and The Guide This study guide was written to accompany the CD “Canada Needs You – Volume 1” by Mike Ford. The guide is written for both teachers and students alike, containing excerpts of information and activity ideas aimed at the grade 7 and 8 level of Canadian history. The CD is divided into four themes, and within each, lyrics and information pertaining to the topic are included. -
The Politicization of the Scarborough Rapid Transit Line in Post-Suburban Toronto
THE ‘TOONERVILLE TROLLEY’: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE SCARBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT LINE IN POST-SUBURBAN TORONTO Peter Voltsinis 1 “The world is watching.”1 A spokesperson for the Province of Ontario’s (the Province) Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC) uttered those poignant words on March 21, 1985, one day before the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) inaugural opening of the Scarborough Rapid Transit (SRT) line.2 One day later, Ontario Deputy Premier Robert Welch gave the signal to the TTC dispatchers to send the line’s first trains into the Scarborough Town Centre Station, proclaiming that it was “a great day for Scarborough and a great day for public transit.”3 For him, the SRT was proof that Ontario can challenge the world.4 This research essay outlines the development of the SRT to carve out an accurate place for the infrastructure project in Toronto’s planning history. I focus on the SRT’s development chronology, from the moment of the Spadina Expressway’s cancellation in 1971 to the opening of the line in 1985. Correctly classifying what the SRT represents in Toronto’s planning history requires a clear vision of how the project emerged. To create that image, I first situate my research within Toronto’s dominant historiographical planning narratives. I then synthesize the processes and phenomena, specifically postmodern planning and post-suburbanization, that generated public transit alternatives to expressway development in Toronto in the 1970s. Building on my synthesis, I present how the SRT fits into that context and analyze the changing landscape of Toronto land-use politics in the 1970s and early-1980s. -
THE FALSE PANACEA of CITY CHARTERS? a POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE on the CASE of TORONTO Andrew Sancton
Volume 9 • Issue 3 • January 2016 THE FALSE PANACEA OF CITY CHARTERS? A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE CASE OF TORONTO Andrew Sancton SUMMARY Toronto is unlike any other city, as its local boosters will not hesitate to point out. That was the basis, after all, of the “charter movement” that demanded special rights for a mega-city that the movement’s backers insisted was so vital that it even warranted a status similar to that of an entire province. Their efforts culminated in the province’s passage in 2006 of the City of Toronto Act, which appeared on its face to grant the metropolis the power it believed it required and merited. In reality, the Ontario government may have actually set Toronto back, leaving it more at the mercy of provincial power than other smaller municipalities. The few additional taxation powers that were granted by the ostensible Toronto “charter” — the City of Toronto Act — are, in reality, still overseen by the province, which retains the right to limit those revenue tools if it considers it “desirable in the provincial interest to do so.” But while Toronto may have been given just a small number of revenue tools, which it has used only sparingly, and the use of those tools is ultimately decided by Queen’s Park, their very existence has given the province licence to sidestep the city’s calls for more funding. The provincial Liberals have, in the past, insisted that Toronto make use of its own taxes before it demands more provincial funds. Meanwhile, the City of Toronto Act did nothing to curtail the power of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). -
York Region Heritage Directory Resources and Contacts 2011 Edition
York Region Heritage Directory Resources and Contacts 2011 edition The Regional Municipality of York 17250 Yonge Street Newmarket, ON L3Y 6Z1 Tel: (905)830-4444 Fax: (905)895-3031 Internet: http://www.york.ca Disclaimer This directory was compiled using information provided by the contacted organization, and is provided for reference and convenience. The Region makes no guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy of the information. Additions and Corrections If you would like to correct or add information to future editions of this document, please contact the Supervisor, Corporate Records & Information, Office of the Regional Clerk, Regional Municipality of York or by phone at (905)830-4444 or toll- free 1-877-464-9675. A great debt of thanks is owed for this edition to Lindsay Moffatt, Research Assistant. 2 Table of Contents Page No. RESOURCES BY TYPE Archives ……………………………………………………………..… 5 Historical/Heritage Societies ……………………………… 10 Libraries ……………………………………………………………… 17 Museums ………………………………………………………………21 RESOURCES BY LOCATION Aurora …………………………………………………………………. 26 East Gwillimbury ………………………………………………… 28 Georgina …………………………………………………………….. 30 King …………………………………………………………………….. 31 Markham …………………………………………………………….. 34 Newmarket …………………………………………………………. 37 Richmond Hill ……………………………………………………… 40 Vaughan …………………………………………………………….. 42 Whitchurch-Stouffville ……………………………………….. 46 PIONEER CEMETERIES ………..…………..………………….. 47 Listed alphabetically by Local Municipality. RESOURCES OUTSIDE YORK REGION …………….…… 62 HELPFUL WEBSITES ……………………………………………… 64 INDEX…………………………………………………………………….. 66 3 4 ARCHIVES Canadian Quaker Archives at Pickering College Website: http://www.pickeringcollege.on.ca Email: [email protected] Phone: 905-895-1700 Address: 16945 Bayview Ave., Newmarket, ON, L3Y 4X2 Description: The Canadian Quaker Archives of the Canadian Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is housed at Pickering College in Newmarket. The records of Friends’ Monthly and Yearly Meetings in Canada are housed here. -
Conflict & Challenges
Conflict & Challenges Grade 7 Written by Eleanor M. Summers & Ruth Solski This history series was developed to make history curriculum accessible to students at multiple skill levels and with various learning styles. The content covers key topics required for seventh grade history and supports the updated 2013 Ontario Curriculum: History Grade 7. Each topic is presented in a clear, concise manner, which makes the information accessible to struggling learners, but is also appropriate for students performing at or above grade level. Illustrations, maps, and diagrams visually enhance each topic covered and provide support for visual learners. The reading passages focus on the significant people, historic events, and changes in the government that were important to Canadian history between 1800 and 1850, giving students a good overall understanding of this time period. Eleanor Summers is a retired Ruth Solski was an educator for elementary teacher who 30 years, and has created many continues to be involved in teaching resources. As a writer, various levels of education. Her her goal is to provide teachers goal is to write creative and with a useful tool that they can practical resources for teachers use in their classrooms to bring to use in their literacy programs. the joy of learning to children. Copyright © On The Mark Press 2014 This publication may be reproduced under licence from Access Copyright, or with the express written permission of On The Mark Press, or as permitted by law. All rights are otherwise reserved, and no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, scanning, recording or otherwise, except as specifically authorized. -
Healey's "From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community Among Yonge Street Friends" - Book Review Thomas D
Quaker Studies Volume 12 | Issue 2 Article 10 2008 Healey's "From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community among Yonge Street Friends" - Book Review Thomas D. Hamm Earlham College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, and the History of Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Hamm, Thomas D. (2008) "Healey's "From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community among Yonge Street Friends" - Book Review," Quaker Studies: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 10. Available at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol12/iss2/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Quaker Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BOOK REVIEWS 269 HEALEY, Robynne Rogers, From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community among Yonge Street Friends, 1801-1850 (Montreal and Kingston: MeGill-Queen's University Press, 2006), pp. xxvi + 292, including maps, charts, tables and illustra tions. ISBN 9-78077-35313-69, Hardback, $75, £56. Robynne Rogers Healey has written one of the most useful and important studies of the evolution of a Quaker community ever published. Several historians, myself included, have ventured broad overviews of how and why Quakerism changed in the nineteenth century. But now we have a careful, incisive analysis of those changes at the local level. Healey's subject is Yonge Street Monthly Meeting in Ontario. Shortly after 1800, Friends from Vermont and Pennsylvania took advantage of generous land grants to settle north of what would become Toronto. -
The History and the Future of the Politics of Policing
Conference Draft – June 29, 2004 CONFERENCE DRAFT “The History and the Future of the Politics of Policing” Margaret Beare Sociology and Law, Osgoode Hall Law School Abstract: This paper examines the operational realities of the police executive linkages—beyond the official dictates of the law and the desired position expressed in ideological discourses on police independence. Paper draws primarily on historical and criminological literature and research, and public inquiries. The central argument of this paper is that, while there may be a somewhat clear-cut division between the policy versus the operational control of the police by the State in law and in rhetoric, the reality is quite different. The relationship between the State and the police is a dynamic relationship that changes to reflect the nature of the policing that is being carried-out, the political interests of the party in power, and to some extent the personalities of the key players within both the police services and in politics at a specific period in time. This research indicates that looking for the ‘smoking gun’—i.e. the memo or document that in writing acknowledges a directive from the executive to the police sidesteps the reality of the on-going partnerships between politics and policing. Introduction: Much current controversy surrounding policing centres around two issues: the relationship between the police and politics and the question of accountability. Dianne Martins paper has addressed the issue of accountability and while the two issues overlap, I shall be looking specifically at the political question. An understanding of the organizational workings of the police is essential to any attempt to reconcile the tensions between the dictates of police autonomy and the restraints imposed on the police. -
Contesting the Protestant Consensus Voluntarists, Methodists, and the Persistence of Evangelical Dissent in Upper Canada, 1829-1854 James Forbes
Document generated on 10/01/2021 3:28 a.m. Ontario History Contesting the Protestant Consensus Voluntarists, Methodists, and the Persistence of Evangelical Dissent in Upper Canada, 1829-1854 James Forbes Volume 108, Number 2, Fall 2016 Article abstract This article challenges the premise that a Protestant consensus emerged in URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1050594ar Upper Canada by the mid-nineteenth century by examining the persistence of DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1050594ar politically influential, dissenting evangelical voluntarists who advocated the secularization of the clergy reserves. State- Chruch efforts were strongly See table of contents contested by evangelicals who had come to believe that the purity of their faith was marked by its independence from the state as well as its revivalism. Using the Toronto-based Christian Guardian, this article traces a clash between the Publisher(s) British Wesleyans and the generally voluntarist Upper Canadian Methodists as they sought to claim the legacy of Methodism in the colony. Overall, this article The Ontario Historical Society seeks to highlight the persistence of an early dissenting evangelical culture, not as an exception to the rule of consensus, but as a significant influence in ISSN colonial public policy and a vital force in Upper Canadian Protestantism that calls into question the consensus model. 0030-2953 (print) 2371-4654 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Forbes, J. (2016). Contesting the Protestant Consensus: Voluntarists, Methodists, and the Persistence of Evangelical Dissent in Upper Canada, 1829-1854. Ontario History, 108(2), 189–214. https://doi.org/10.7202/1050594ar Copyright © The Ontario Historical Society, 2016 This document is protected by copyright law. -
August 1993 OHS Bulletin, Issue 86
s\ ' . ' V (i. R‘ LI‘ —f» Ur:~~ ‘ 0 14:“ O 7-‘ ,_l V/‘I/4.. £11 I’ ' “I .4’ ‘ "V 7‘ 5 5151 Yonge Street, Willowdale, Ontario M2N 5P5 Issue 86 - July — August 1993 Ontario’s first press and newspaper commemorated 1993 marks the bicentennial including the 250 year-old of Ontario’s first newspaper wooden press, which produced and printing press, established the first edition of The Gazette, in 1793 at Newark (now used by the Kings Printer to Niagara-on-the-Lake) by Upper John Graves Simcoe, Louis Canada’s first Lieutenant Roy. The museum is open to Governor, John Graves the public until Labour Day, Simcoe. September 6, and throughout Simcoe set up the govern- October for school and group ment printing office and news- tours. paper, The Upper Canada Several other commemora- Gazette or American Oracle, tive events have marked the shortly after he arrived in the bicentennial. Of particular newly-formed province, to con- importance was the unveiling vey news about government on June 9 of a plaque in policies, statutes and proclama- Simcoe Parks Heritage Garden tions. The Gazette also played a at Niagara-on—the-Lake in hon- significant role as a community our of the first newspaper. The newspaper, containing foreign bronze, lectern-style plaque, and domestic news, editorials erected by the Ontario Commu- and advertising. The paper nity Newspapers Association, operated for over 50 years, is situated with other markers making it, today, an invaluable identifying Niagara’s founding source of historical information history. The unveiling initiated on Ontario’s early develop- three days of meetings and spe- ment. -
Bibliography of Published Works Relating to the Upper Canada Rebellion, 1837-1838 Chris Raible
Document generated on 09/27/2021 10:38 a.m. Ontario History Bibliography of Published Works Relating to the Upper Canada Rebellion, 1837-1838 Chris Raible Consequences of Rebellious Acts: The 1837 & 1838 Rebellions Volume 101, Number 2, Fall 2009 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1065619ar DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1065619ar See table of contents Publisher(s) The Ontario Historical Society ISSN 0030-2953 (print) 2371-4654 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this document Raible, C. (2009). Bibliography of Published Works Relating to the Upper Canada Rebellion, 1837-1838. Ontario History, 101(2), 222–251. https://doi.org/10.7202/1065619ar Copyright © The Ontario Historical Society, 2009 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ 222 ONTARIO HISTORY Bibliography of Published Works Relating to the Upper Canada Rebellion, 1837-1838 Compiled by Chris Raible (with thanks to John Carter, Patricia Kennedy, Stuart Scott and many others) “Rebels marching” by C.W. Jefferys. by C.W. marching” “Rebels he only published comprehensive the narratives of Mackenzie (1838) and bibliography of works related to Francis Bond Head (1839) to Kilbourn’s the Canadian Rebellions of 1837- biography (1956) and Craig’s provincial T38 was issued more than eighty years ago: history (1963). -
To Excite the Feelings of Noble Patriots:” Emotion, Public Gatherings, and Mackenzie’S
A Dissertation entitled “To Excite the Feelings of Noble Patriots:” Emotion, Public Gatherings, and Mackenzie’s American Rebellion, 1837-1842 by Joshua M. Steedman Submitted to the Graduate Faculty as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy History ___________________________________________ Dr. Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch, Committee Chair ___________________________________________ Dr. Kim Nielsen, Committee Member ___________________________________________ Dr. Roberto Padilla II, Committee Member ___________________________________________ Dr. Rebecca Mancuso, Committee Member ___________________________________________ Dr. Cyndee Gruden, Dean College of Graduate Studies The University of Toledo August 2019 Copyright 2019, Joshua M. Steedman This document is copyrighted material. Under copyright law, no parts of this document may be reproduced without the expressed permission of the author. An Abstract of “To Excite the Feelings of Noble Patriots:” Emotion, Public Gatherings, and Mackenzie’s American Rebellion, 1837-1842 by Joshua M. Steedman Submitted to the Graduate Faculty as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in History The University of Toledo August 2019 This dissertation is a cultural history of the American reaction to the Upper Canadian Rebellion and the Patriot War. This project is based on an analysis of newspaper articles published by William Lyon Mackenzie and his contemporaries, diplomatic cables between Washington D.C. and London, letters, and accounts of celebrations, toasts, and public meetings which occurred between 1837 and 1842. I argue Americans and Upper Canadians in the Great Lakes region made up a culture area. By re-engaging in a battle with the British, Upper Canadians, and their American supporters sought redemption. Reacting to geographic isolation from major metropolitan areas and a looming psychic crisis motivated many of these individuals to act.