A City in the Making: Progress, People & Perils in Victorian Toronto - Hardcover

A City in the Making examines certian of the events that took place in the nineteenth century Toronto, paying particular attention to those who carved a thriving metropolis out of the frontier post that was the town of York.

Frederick H. Armstrong, an historian, writer and history professor at the University of Western Ontario for 25 years, has written extensively about eighteenth and nineteenth century Toronto. This is his third book for Dundurn Press.