When a circus train derails in Toronto in 1925, a lion escapes and finds shelter in High Park, a four-hundred-acre park in the west end of the city. No one knows about the creature except for Sadie Menken, the feisty daughter of a pie-...
Urban parks
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Auteur:Fagan, CarySommaire: -
Auteur:Spector, DavidSommaire:In 1904, Assiniboine Park was conceived as a peoples playground, a place devoid of commercial amusements where all classes of Winnipeggers could relax andrejuvenate in idyllic and Arcadian surroundings. The book traces the development...
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Auteur:Burley, RobertSommaire:Featuring tributes from award-winning writers
In a city sometimes referred to as “The Big Smoke,” Toronto’s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked,...
