Inside Hamilton's Museums (eBook)

John Goddard (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
208 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3356-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Take a journey through Hamilton’s past by way of the houses, heritage museums, and historic sites. Learn about founders, families, wars, and politics through tours of the grounds and houses and a discussion of some of the most prized possessions contained therein.

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Exploring Hamilton through its heritage museums.Inside Hamilton's Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada's steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination. With an emphasis on storytelling and unsung heroes, the book identifies where Sergeant Alexander Fraser bayonetted seven enemy soldiers in a shocking attack to save Upper Canada in 1813. It evokes the day in 1939 when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth opened the Queen Elizabeth Way, the first intercity divided highway in North America. And it illuminates the four months in 1846 when an otherwise immensely privileged teenager, Sophia MacNab, documented her mother's excruciating demise.Appealing to Hamiltonians and visitors alike, the book brings to life the former residents of Dundurn Castle, Whitehern Historic House, the Old Waterworks, Battlefield House, Griffin House, the Joseph Brant Museum, and the Erland Lee Museum, birthplace of the Women's Institutes.

Autor

John Goddard is a former magazine writer and Toronto Star reporter with a curiosity for little-known Ontario wonders. His books include Inside the Museums: Toronto’s Heritage Sites and Their Most Prized Objects and, with TV’s Richard Crouse, Rock and Roll Toronto, a cheeky guide to the city’s rock and roll historic sites.

Inhalt

Preface and Acknowledgements
1 Dundurn National Historic Site (and Hamilton Military Museum)
2 Whitehern Historic House and Garden
3 Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology (The Waterworks) 
4 Battlefield House Museum and Park
5 Griffin House (with Fieldcote Memorial Park and Museum)
6 Joseph Brant Museum
7 Erland Lee Museum
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2016
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Schlagworte: Adelaide Hunter Hoodless • Allan Napier MacNab • Battlefield House • Battle of Stoney Creek • Billy Green • Camilla Parker Bowles • Children's Museum • Dundurn Castle • Erland Lee • Fieldcote Memorial Park and Museum • Golden Horseshoe Live Steamers • Griffin House • historic houses • historic sites • Inside the Museums • John Gartshore • Joseph Brant • Museum of Steam and Technology • Ontario museums • Sophia Pooley • Thomas Coltrin Keefer • Thomas McQuesten • Tourism • Upper Canada • War of 1812 • Whitehern • Women's Institutes
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3356-8 / 1459733568
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3356-5 / 9781459733565