Looking for gift ideas for someone with Toronto roots or someone who likes reading about history? You may find some among the 2015 Heritage Toronto Award winners and nominees in the book category. This category recognizes well-written non-fiction books published in 2013 that explore Toronto’s archaeological, built, cultural or natural heritage and history.
2015 winners and nominees
• Toronto: Biography of a City (Winner)
• Both Sides of the Fence: Surviving the Trap (Winner)
• Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley (Winner)
• Davy the Punk (Winner)
• Adversity, Resilience, Prosperity: The Odyssey of a Canadian Inner City Neighbourhood Cabbagetown 1941 – 2011
• The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration • Policies in the Twentieth Century
• Lost Breweries of Toronto
• Inside the Museums: Toronto’s Heritage Sites and Their Most Prized Objects
• Views of the CN Tower
• The History of Sunnybrook Hospital: Battle to Greatness
• Riverdale: East of the Don
Links to more information about these books is available here.
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