The Orillia Spirit (eBook)

An Illustrated History of Orillia

Randy Richmond (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017 | 2. Auflage
192 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3962-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Something about Orillia, immortalized in Stephen Leacock’s classic Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, has always inspired its people to reach for their dreams. The results have been comic, tragic, and heroic, as shown in this colourful history of Orillia.

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2017 Orillia Museum of Art & History Award, Historical Publications and/or Research - WinnerThe history of Orillia, told through the stories of its people, bringing to life the community's heritage and significance.The Orillia Spirit:Muddling through Canada's first, and hilarious, experiment with daylight savings time, Mayor "e;Daylight Bill"e; Frost had it. Creating his own money and dreaming a drainage ditch would become a tourist attraction, Mayor Ben Johnson had it. Taking his town's electric company by force, Mayor J.B. Tudhope had it. Inventing early forms of medicare and the first RVs, dreaming of universities and folk festivals, battling for decades over liquor and rinks, ordinary people had it.Something about the place immortalized in Stephen Leacock's classic Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town has always inspired its people to reach for their dreams. Turn-of-the-twentieth-century leaders coined the phrase "e;the Orillia Spirit"e; to describe their drive to make the town a social, moral, and economic leader of Canada. The results have been comic, tragic, and heroic, as shown in this colourful history of Orillia.

Autor

Randy Richmond is an award-winning journalist living in London, Ontario. He is the former editor of The Packet & Times in Orillia, where he wrote the first Orillia Spirit, married, and had three children. He is the coauthor of Colossal Canadian Failures 1 and 2, also published by Dundurn Press.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Foreword

Chapter One: A Meeting
What’s in a Name? In Orillia, Confusion
A Forgotten Village
Chapter Two: An Inevitable Clash
From Hotel to Asylum
“The trees, I never saw the likes of them.”
Chapter Three: The Lumber Boom
Canada’s First Medical Plan
The Dry Days Begin
The Finest Position in the Dominion
Churches
Steaming into Legend
Chapter Four: The Orillia Spirit
A Motoring Adventure
A Monument to the Past
A Fairy-Tale Ending
Chapter Five: King Ben
Chasing Rum-Runners and Nazis
Chapter Six: Anything Was Possible
A Leacockian Tale
The Centre a Community Built
Chapter Seven: Some Dreams Just Won’t Die
The Long Wait for a Drink
Chapter Eight: Big City Dreams, Small Town Reality
A Smaller Dream
Chapter Nine: The Spirit Returns
Chapter Ten: Haunting Dreams
And the Spirit Looks Like What?

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2017
• Vorwort: James A. "Pete" McGarvey
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: corrupt mayors • factories • funny historical characters • Humour • illustrated history • Lake Simcoe • Local History • Orillia, Ontario • Simcoe County • small towns • Stephen Leacock
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3962-0 / 1459739620
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3962-8 / 9781459739628