<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Toronto (Ont.) — History — 19th century."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Toronto (Ont.) — History — 19th century."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/surrey/rss/search?query=%22Toronto%20%28Ont.%29%20%E2%80%94%20History%20%E2%80%94%2019th%20century.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:46:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Underground Railroad]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! explores Toronto's role as a destination for thousands of freedom seekers before the American Civil War. This new edition traces pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made the trip north in search of liberty and offers new biographies, images, and information, some of which is augmented by a 2015 archaeological dig in downtown Toronto. Within its pages are stories of courageous men, women, and children who overcame barriers of prejudice and racism to create homes, institutions, and a rich and vibrant community life in Canada's largest city. These brave individuals established organizations not only to help newcomers but to also oppose the ongoing slavery in the United States and to resist racism in their adopted city. Based entirely on original research, The Underground Railroad offers fresh insights into the rich heritage of African Americans who became African Canadians and helped build Toronto as we know the city today.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C928742</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C928742</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shadd, Adrienne L.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/928742071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Next Stop, Toronto!</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781459748965/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Underground Railroad]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! explores Toronto's role as a destination for thousands of freedom seekers before the American Civil War. This new edition traces pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made the trip north in search of liberty and offers new biographies, images, and information, some of which is augmented by a 2015 archaeological dig in downtown Toronto. Within its pages are stories of courageous men, women, and children who overcame barriers of prejudice and racism to create homes, institutions, and a rich and vibrant community life in Canada's largest city. These brave individuals established organizations not only to help newcomers but to also oppose the ongoing slavery in the United States and to resist racism in their adopted city. Based entirely on original research, The Underground Railroad offers fresh insights into the rich heritage of African Americans who became African Canadians and helped build Toronto as we know the city today.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C952129</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C952129</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shadd, Adrienne L.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/952129071</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Next Stop, Toronto!</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781459748989/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death or Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA["It's been called the most traumatic event in Toronto's history. In the summer of 1847, nearly 40,000 Irish famine refugees flooded the city, threatening to overwhelm the local population of only 20,000. A typhus epidemic followed and by the fall, more than 1,000 had died. It remains the single largest loss of life in the city's history and the bodies of those who died are buried anonymously under a school playground in Toronto's downtown east end. The two-hour docudrama begins in Ireland and finishes in Canada. It follows the journey of the Willis family, a family of six who left Ireland in the worst year of the famine and came to the new world in search of a better life."--Container. ]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C780952</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C780952</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/780952071</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle>Fleeing the Famine</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clara at the Door With A Revolver]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the autumnal darkness of October 6, 1894, an unseen figure slipped through the streets of Parkdale, rang the doorbell at the home of a well-to-do Toronto family, and shot Frank Westwood in his doorway, murdering him in cold blood. Six weeks later, the spotlight shone on the enigmatic Clara Ford, a Black tailor and single mother known for her impeccable work ethic and resolute personality - and for wearing men's attire. A former neighbor of the Westwoods, Clara was arrested and confessed to the murder. But as the details of her arrest and her complex connection to the Westwood family emerged, she recanted, testifying that she was coerced by police into a false confession. Clara was the first woman - and only the second person - to testify on her own behalf in a Canadian trial. Set in three acts, this story illuminates not only the riveting case itself but also the societal attitudes, gender and race hypocrisy, and the politics of media power in the growing city of Toronto. Carolyn Whitzman tells the compelling story of a courageous Black woman living in nineteenth-century Toronto and paints a portrait of a city and a society that have not changed enough in 125 years."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C995619</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C995619</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Whitzman, Carolyn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/995619071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780774890618/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Burying Ground]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto -- the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics -- and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed. The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has unexpectedly returned to preaching on the Yonge Street Circuit. The graveyard’s secrets lead Lewis and his son Luke into the hidden heart of 1851 Toronto where they discover a trail of corruption and blackmail tied to an old sexual scandal and a dangerous enemy intent on vengeance.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C777624</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C777624</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kellough, Janet]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/777624071</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781459724723/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Burying Ground]]></title><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C649878</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C649878</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kellough, Janet]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/649878071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781459724709/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death in the Age of Steam]]></title><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C564040</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C564040</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradshaw, Mel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/564040071</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781459716315/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>