Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850–1935
by Dale Barbour
University of Manitoba Press, 2021
Cloth: 978-0-88755-953-2 | Paper: 978-0-88755-947-1 | eISBN: 978-0-88755-949-5 (epub) | eISBN: 978-0-88755-951-8 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification GT2846.C2B37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 391.64
TOC
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Central Waterfront: Testing the Waters
Chapter 2. Central Waterfront: Vernacular Spaces
Chapter 3. Toronto Island: Implementing a Beach
Chapter 4. The Don River and the Bathing Boy
Chapter 5. Humber River Encounters
Chapter 6. Sunnyside and the Beach
Conclusion. Bathing on the Ragged Edge
Epilogue. Recrafting the Bathing Body
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
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