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Journey through Toronto’s historic sites, museums, and landscapes, bringing the city’s colourful history to life.
No city’s history is black and white, right? Within these pages, Daniel Rotsztain’s ode to Toronto’s historic sites awaits your dashes of colour and inspiration. Rotsztain, aka the Urban Geographer, renders the historic sites, museums, and landscapes of each historical community — every former village, farm hamlet, and town — that joined together to form today’s megacity.
Explore the history of Toronto through its heritage architecture — opulent castles and gritty factories, beloved inns and humble cabins, and some unique artifacts (and wallpaper!) — with nothing but your own pencil crayons or markers. A Colourful History Toronto is a whimsical survey of the buildings left behind by the people whose hard work created today’s modern metropolis, and a celebration of the living community hubs that they’ve become.
No city’s history is black and white, right? Within these pages, Daniel Rotsztain’s ode to Toronto’s historic sites awaits your dashes of colour and inspiration. Rotsztain, aka the Urban Geographer, renders the historic sites, museums, and landscapes of each historical community — every former village, farm hamlet, and town — that joined together to form today’s megacity.
Explore the history of Toronto through its heritage architecture — opulent castles and gritty factories, beloved inns and humble cabins, and some unique artifacts (and wallpaper!) — with nothing but your own pencil crayons or markers. A Colourful History Toronto is a whimsical survey of the buildings left behind by the people whose hard work created today’s modern metropolis, and a celebration of the living community hubs that they’ve become.
Price: $16.99
Pages: 176
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
24 October 2017
Trim Size: 10.00 X 10.00 in
ISBN: 9781459738966
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
GAMES / Activity Books (incl. Coloring Books), Adult colouring & activity books, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), Architecture: public buildings
Daniel Rotsztain is the Urban Geographer, an artist, writer, and cartographer whose work explores our relationship to the places we inhabit. The author and illustrator of All the Libraries Toronto, Daniel’s work has also appeared in Spacing Magazine and the Globe and Mail. He lives in Toronto.
- A Note from the Urban Geographer
- Scadding Cabin (1794)
- Tormorden Mills (first established 1795)
- Fort York (first established 1793)
- Spadina Museum (estate established in 1818)
- John Bales House (1824)
- Montgomery’s Inn (1830)
- Tollkeeper’s Cottage (c. 1830)
- Colborne Lodge (1837)
- Market Gallery (1845)
- Lambton House (1847)
- Gibson House (1851)
- Mackenzie House (c. 1858)
- Dempsey Brothers Store (1860)
- Queen's Wharf Lighthouse (1861)
- Zion Schoolhouse (1869)
- Zion Church Cultural Centre (1873)
- Berkley Street Theatre (1887)
- Young People's Theatre (1888)
- Don Valley Brick Works (first established 1889)
- W.J. Morrish Store (c. 1891)
- Assembly Hall (1898)
- Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (c. 1900)
- Theatre Passe Muraille (1902)
- Alumnae Theatre Company (1905)
- Cedar Ridge Creative Centre (1912)
- Casa Loma (1914)
- Atlantic Avenue Collections Centre (1912)
- John McKenzie House (1913)
- Guild Inn (1914)
- Massey- Goulding Estate (1921)
- Bluffs Gallery (c. 1920)
- John Street Roundhouse (1931)
- Franklin Carmichael Art Centre (1932)
- Winfields Estate (1936)
- Central Services Office (c. 1950)
- Scarborough Museum (1962)
- St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (1970)
- Neilson Park Creative Centre (1992)
- Kodak Camera
- Town Hall Clock