Toronto Remembered; A Celebration of the City
Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 336 pages. Plate signed author signature on fep and on inside of rear board. Interlaced with the text are a number of paintings, woodcuts, aquatints, photographs, and cartoons reflecting aspects of the history of Toronto. Includes Introduction; A Sense of Place; The Past; Peoples and Persons 1; Peoples and Persons II; Politics; Acknowledgment; and Index of Authors and Subject Titles. William Morley Kilbourn, CM, FRSC (1926–1995) was a Canadian author and historian in Toronto, Ontario. Kilbourn's topics cover history, biography, religion and the arts, with a focus on Toronto; he penned over a dozen books. Kilbourn was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto. Following this he completed degrees in modern history at Oxford and Harvard universities. Kilbourn served for five years as the first chairman of humanities at York University, 7 years on the Toronto City Council, and as an alderman. More