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Primary Sources

Toronto Fire Insurance Maps

Toronto City Directories: 1880; 1892; 1909; 1918

Toronto Illustrated & Historical Texts:

Timperlake, J. Illustrated Toronto: Past and Present, Being an Historical and Descriptive Guide-Book. Toronto: Peter A Gross, 1877.

Illustrated Toronto, the Queen City of Canada, its past, present and future, its growth, its resources, its commerce, its manufactures, its financial interests, its public institutions, and its prospects. Toronto: ACME Publishing and Engraving Company, 1890.

Toronto Illustrated, 1893: A Brief History of the City from Foundation to the Present Time. Toronto: Consolidated Illustrating Co, 1893.

Mulvany, Charles Pelham and Adam G Mercer. History of Toronto and County of York, Ontario. Toronto: C B Robinson, 1885.

Adam, G. Mercer. Toronto, Old and New: a memorial volume, historical, descriptive and pictorial, designed to mark the hundredth anniversary of the passing of the constitutional act of 1791, which set apart the province of Upper Canada and gave birth to York (now Toronto). Toronto: Mail Print Co, 1891.

Mansfield, J. B. History of the Great Lakes. Vol 1.

Uncategorized Texts:

An Act to License and Regulate the Duties and Charges on Coaches, Carriages, Cabs, Carts and other Vehicles, Kept for Hire in the City of Toronto. Toronto: R Stanton, Passed June 5th, 1843.

Reports of the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Toronto Board of Trade for the year 1887. Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Co Printers, 1888.

Toronto Ordinances. By-laws of the city of Toronto from the date of the incorporation of the city in 1834, to the year 1869. Toronto: Henry Rowsell, 1870.

Anonymous. The Gas Grievance and Remedy: a Brief History of the Progress of Gas Manufacture in Toronto. 1860.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters: Official Magazine. America: IBT. 1907.

Secondary Sources

Articles:

Ballert, Albert G. “The Coal Trade of the Great Lakes and the Port of Toledo.” Geographical Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, April 1948. 194-205. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/210854.

Desfor, Gene. “Planning Urban Waterfront Industrial Districts: Toronto’s Ashbridge’s Bay, 1889-1910.” Urban History Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, October 1988. 77-91. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43552204.

MacFadyen, Joshua. “These Well-Wooded Towns: Supplying Fuel Wood to Central Canadian Urban Markets, 1867-1921.” Histoire sociale/ Social History, Vol. 54 No. 111, September 2021. 283-309. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/his.2021.0044

Patton, M. J. “The Coal Resources of Canada.” Economic Geography, Vol. 1, No. 1., March 1925. 73-88. DOI: https:/www.jstor.org/stable/140098.

Prudham, Scott, Gunter Gad, and Richard Anderson. “Networks of Power: Toronto’s Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970.” Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront, edited by Gene Desfor and Jennifer Laidley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 175-200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442661912-011

Schnell, George A. “Anthracite’s Impact on Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Population and Environment, 1880-1995.” Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Vol. 72, No.1, October 1998. 22-28. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44149249.

Dissertations:

Harper, Daniel P. “In the Shadow of Antitrust: Competition Policy and the Coal Trade and Chicago, 1888-1940.” PhD Diss., University of Illinois, 2013.

Pitsula, James Michael. “The Relief of Poverty in Toronto, 1880 – 1930.” Order No. NK41010, York University (Canada), 1979.

Books:

Berchem, F. R. Opportunity Road: Yonge Street 1860-1939. Toronto: Dundurn, 1996.

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and The Great West. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. 

Jones, Christopher F. Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America. Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2014. 

Macfarlane, Daniel. Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US- Canada Relations. McGill-Queen’s Press, 2023.

Miller, Donald L., and Richard E. Sharpless. The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.

Thompson, Mark L. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes. Wayne State University Press, 2017. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/book.61489. 

Townsend, Robert B., and C. H. J. Snider. Tales from the Great Lakes: based on C. H. J. Snider’s “Schooner days”. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1996.