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The history you don’t know is the most fascinating of all.
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Waterloo, Ontario, could be any small Canadian community. Its familiar histories privilege the “great accomplishments” of those who built the institutions we know today: industry, government, and education. But what of those who were marginalized, weird, and wonderful — real people who lived between the boundaries of mainstream existence?
Waterloo You Never Knew reveals forgotten and little known tales of a community in transition and reflects on those lives lived in infamy and obscurity, by choice or design. Meet the rumrunner, the ex-slaves, and the cholera victims, the grave-digging doctor, the séance-loving politician, and the sorcery-practising healer.
Come inside. See the Waterloo you never knew, revealed.
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Waterloo, Ontario, could be any small Canadian community. Its familiar histories privilege the “great accomplishments” of those who built the institutions we know today: industry, government, and education. But what of those who were marginalized, weird, and wonderful — real people who lived between the boundaries of mainstream existence?
Waterloo You Never Knew reveals forgotten and little known tales of a community in transition and reflects on those lives lived in infamy and obscurity, by choice or design. Meet the rumrunner, the ex-slaves, and the cholera victims, the grave-digging doctor, the séance-loving politician, and the sorcery-practising healer.
Come inside. See the Waterloo you never knew, revealed.
Price: $21.99
Pages: 200
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
16 July 2019
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781459742901
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Canada / General, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history
Waterloo You Never Knew: Life on the Margins reflects an authentic sense of place that roots the stories in Waterloo Region. It tells compelling stories of our community that should be heard.
[Joanna Rickert-Hall] has succeeded admirably in “bringing back” the forgotten whose stories deserve to be known and remembered.
Rickert-Hall gives new meaning to notions of shared history and identity, reflectively considering Waterloo as just one of many small Canadian communities with a definitive community story that's worth revisiting.
[Joanna Rickert-Hall] has succeeded admirably in “bringing back” the forgotten whose stories deserve to be known and remembered.
Rickert-Hall gives new meaning to notions of shared history and identity, reflectively considering Waterloo as just one of many small Canadian communities with a definitive community story that's worth revisiting.
Joanna Rickert-Hall is a social historian engaged in the unending search for arcane and overlooked histories. She is the 2015 recipient of the Jean Steckle Award for Excellence in heritage education. Joanna lives in Waterloo, Ontario.
Foreword by Stephanie Kirkwood Walker
Preface
Part One: Life on the Margins: Cultivating Community
Chapter 1: Waterloo County in Historical Context
Chapter 2: Transient Entertainment: A Menagerie (and Cholera) Come to Town
Chapter 3: The Underground Railroad Makes a Stop in Waterloo County
Part Two: Containment
Chapter 4: Misfits, Mischief, and Misfortune: Fitting in or Falling Out
Chapter 5: The Berlin Gaol: Inmates and Murder Most Deadly
Chapter 6: The Waterloo County House of Industry and Refuge: Case Studies in Contrast
Chapter 7: Containment for Children: The Orphanages
Part Three: Dodgy Dealings and Risky Business: On the Margins for Profit
Chapter 8: Bootleggers, Joseph Seagram, and Al Capone
Chapter 9: The Dark Side of the Sunny Side of Doing Business: Bodysnatching for Profit
Part Four: In the Devil’s Snare: Beyond the Veil
Chapter 10: Witchcraft, Healing … and Mennonites?
Chapter 11: Crystal Balls, Spirit Guides, and Psychic Healers: The Prime Minister, the Artist, and the Nurse-Turned-Psychic
Part Five: History as Storytelling
Chapter 12: The Legend of Oromocto Spring
Epilogue
Timeline
Acknowledgements
Notes
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
Image Credits
Index
Preface
Part One: Life on the Margins: Cultivating Community
Chapter 1: Waterloo County in Historical Context
Chapter 2: Transient Entertainment: A Menagerie (and Cholera) Come to Town
Chapter 3: The Underground Railroad Makes a Stop in Waterloo County
Part Two: Containment
Chapter 4: Misfits, Mischief, and Misfortune: Fitting in or Falling Out
Chapter 5: The Berlin Gaol: Inmates and Murder Most Deadly
Chapter 6: The Waterloo County House of Industry and Refuge: Case Studies in Contrast
Chapter 7: Containment for Children: The Orphanages
Part Three: Dodgy Dealings and Risky Business: On the Margins for Profit
Chapter 8: Bootleggers, Joseph Seagram, and Al Capone
Chapter 9: The Dark Side of the Sunny Side of Doing Business: Bodysnatching for Profit
Part Four: In the Devil’s Snare: Beyond the Veil
Chapter 10: Witchcraft, Healing … and Mennonites?
Chapter 11: Crystal Balls, Spirit Guides, and Psychic Healers: The Prime Minister, the Artist, and the Nurse-Turned-Psychic
Part Five: History as Storytelling
Chapter 12: The Legend of Oromocto Spring
Epilogue
Timeline
Acknowledgements
Notes
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
Image Credits
Index