The revenge of the methodist bicycle company: sunday streetcars and municipal reform in toronto, 1888 - 1897

The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company is the rollicking good story of the politics and people that shaped High Victorian Toronto. When big-money railway owners wanted to run the Sunday streetcar, they faced violent opposition from those who believed it was a desecration of the Sabbath. But ultimately, the robber barons won and the cars ran on Sunday-just as the first great bicycle craze began. Everybody bought bikes-some of them from the Methodist Bicycle Company-and the Sunday streetcars were virtually empty. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs from the period, this attractive Wynford edition brings this classic Toronto story to a new generation of readers. INDICE: Preface to the Wynford Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1.: A Sense of Time and Place; 2.: Ned Clarke's Toronto; 3.: Senator Smith's Goldmine; 4.: The Sale of the Railway and the Purchase of the Council; 5.: Weathercocks and Flapdoodlers; 6.: A Business Man and a Business Plan; 7.: The CityVirgin; 8.: Boodle Everywhere; 9.: The Redemption of the City; 10.: Organizing to Whip the Saints; 11.: The Unbluing of Toronto; 12.: The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company; 13.: Postscript; Appendices; Notes; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-544337-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 21/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés