CONTENTS
Introduction
FOUNDING
1. A Torch in the Night
2. Scandals of the French Empire
3. Four Weddings & a Fur Trader
4. The Fires of Elizabeth Simcoe
5. The New Year’s Duel
6. A Dangerous Charivari
7. Shipwrecks & Disgrace
8. The Inspector General of Private Accounts
THE WAR OF 1812
9. The Myth of the Stirrup Cup
10. Should I Fall
11. FitzGibbon’s Leave
DEMOCRACY
12. The Rebel Isabel
13. No Pity for the Blacksmith
14. A Box for Mary James
15. Your Movements Are Watched
16. Adultery at Osgoode Hall
17. The Blue School Boys
THE BOOMING METROPOLIS
18. Escape from Kentucky
19. The Suspicious Oyster Shop
20. The Winter Accident
21. The Mother of Confederation
22. The Tomb in High Park
23. The Secrets of Jalna
24. “A Cry from an Indian Wife”
25. The Queen of Hearts
THE GREAT WARS
26. A Five-Dollar Date
27. Longboat’s Widow
28. Hemingway Hates Toronto
29. The Great Stork Derby
30. The Incorrigible Velma Demerson
31. The Clay Ladies
32. Heartbroken Spies
33. Miriam’s Judaica
34. The Blizzard
THE MODERN CITY
35. Little Green
36. I Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way
37. Elizabeth Taylor’s Love Nest
38. The Napalm Girl
39. Maggie at the El Mo
40. The Michaels
Epilogue: The Ongoing History of Kissing in Toronto
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography & Further Reading
About the Author