Looking for Old Ontario /

Looking for Old Ontario / / Thomas McIlwraith.

The slogan on Ontario's licence plates, 'Yours to Discover,' was designed to promote travel opportunities within the province. Every year, thousands of tourists drive along country roads, past farmyards and through hamlets, en route to popular vacation spots. In Looking for Old Ontari...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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McIlwraith, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. Acknowledging landscape
  • Part I: Building old Ontario
  • 2. The evolving vernacular
  • 3. Natural and human history
  • 4. Surveys and place names
  • 5. Building materials and arts
  • Part II: Reading individual features
  • 6. Houses
  • 7. Revealing details
  • 8. Community buildings
  • 9. Barns
  • 10. Fences
  • 11. Power and mills
  • 12. Graves and monuments
  • Part III: Examining clusters of features
  • 13. Farms
  • 14. Roadsides
  • 15. Transport systems
  • 16. Townscapes
  • Part IV: Finding limits
  • 17. Boundaries
  • 18. Decay and renewal
  • APPENDIX A. Structure and outside finish
  • APPENDIX B. Halls
  • APPENDIX C. A fence typology
  • Notes
  • Suggested reading
  • Selected bibliography
  • Illustration credits
  • Index

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