The Ward

Contents & Contributors

Introduction – John Lorinc

Searching for the Old Ward – Shawn Micallef

No Place Like Home – Howard Akler

Before the Ward: Macaulaytown - Stephen A. Otto

My Grandmother the Bootlegger - Howard Moscoe

Against All Odds: The Chinese Laundry – Arlene Chan

V-J Day – Arlene Chan

Merle Foster’s Studio: ‘A Spot Of Enchantment’ - Terry Murray

Missionary Work: The Fight for Jewish Souls – Ellen Scheinberg

King of the Ward – Myer Siemiatycki

Where the Rich Went for Vice – Michael Redhill

A Fresh Start: Black Toronto in the 19th Century – Karolyn Smardz Frost

Policing the Lord’s Day – Mariana Valverde

‘The Maniac Chinaman’ - Edward Keenan

Elsie’s Story – Patte Rosebank

Lawren Harris’s Ward Period - Jim Burant

‘Fool’s Paradise’: Hastings’ Anti-Slum Crusade – John Lorinc

Strange Brew: The Underground Economy of Blind Pigs – Ellen Scheinberg

The Italian Consulate – Andrea Addario

Excerpt: The Italians in Toronto – Emily P. Weaver

Arthur Goss: Documenting Hardship – Stephen Bulger

Fresh Air: The Fight Against TB – Cathy Crowe

The Stone Yard – Gaetan Heroux

William James: Toronto’s First Photojournalist – Vincenzo Pietropaolo

The Avenue Not Taken – Michael McClelland

Timothy Eaton’s Stern Fortifications – Michael Valpy

Settling In: Central Neighbourhood House – Ratna Omidvar and Ranjit Bhaskar

Toronto’s Girl with the Curls – Ellen Scheinberg

Chinese Cafés: Survival and Danger – Ellen Scheinberg and Paul Yee

Defiance and Divisions: The Great Eaton’s Strike – Ruth A. Frager

Elizabeth Street: What the City Directories Reveal – Denise Balkissoon

Growing Up on Walton Street – Cynthia MacDougall

Revitalizing George Street: The Ward’s Lessons – Alina Chatterjee and Derek Ballantyne

Taking Care of Business in the Ward – Ellen Scheinberg

'A Magnificent Dome': The Great University Avenue Synagogue – Jack Lipinsky

Reading the Ward: The Inevitability of Loss – Kim Storey and James Brown

Toronto’s First Little Italy – John Lorinc

The Elizabeth Street Playground, Revisited – Bruce Kidd

Divided Loyalties – Sandra Shaul

Crowded by Any Measure – John Lorinc

A Peddler and His Cart: The Ward’s Rag Trade – Deena Nathanson

Toronto’s Original Tenement: Wineberg Apartments – Richard Dennis

An Untimely Death – Brian Banks

Paper Pushers – Ellen Scheinberg

The BMR’s Wake-Up Call – Laurie Monsebraaten

Excerpt: Report of the Medical Health Officer ... – Charles J. Hastings

Dr. Clarke's Clinic – Thelma Wheatley

Slum-Free: The Suburban Ideal – Richard Harris

The Glionna Clan and Toronto’s First Little Italy – John E. Zucchi

'The Hipp’ – Michael Posner

Before Yorkville – John Lorinc

Public Baths: Schvitzing on Centre Avenue – Ellen Scheinberg

Sex Work and the Ward’s Bachelor Society – Elise Chenier

The Health Advocates: McKeown on Hastings – John Lorinc

Remembering Toronto’s First Chinatown – Kristyn Wong-Tam

Tabula Rasa – Mark Kingwell

Unrealized Renewal – J. David Hulchanski

A Short History of the ‘Civic Square’ Expropriation – John Lorinc

Storytelling is Part of the Story – Tatum Taylor

How We Think About What (Little) Survives – Patrick Cummins

Institutional Memory – Scott James & Victor Russell

Alternative Histories – Michael McClelland