A bibliography of books and other information sources

A bibliography of books and other information sources

A sampling of books about the Gooderhams, Worts and the times and an inventory of sources for historic biographies, obituaries, newspaper articles, portraits, photographs, even building permits.

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The Windmill and its times : a series of articles dealing with the early days of the Windmill by Shuttleworth, Edward Buckingham.
The Windmill and its times : a series of articles dealing with the early days of the Windmill by Shuttleworth, Edward Buckingham.
Year/Format: 1924, Book , 146 p., [6] leaves of plates :
Publication information: Toronto : W.G. Gooderham, 1924 (Toronto : E.D. Apted)
Language: English
Format: Regular Print Book
General note: Some material drawn from old account books of Gooderham & Worts, owners of the Windmill. 
 
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All the Journey Through [University of Toronto Press Incorporated: Toronto, 1997] 
by C.M. Blackstock (Author)
All the Journey Through [University of Toronto Press Incorporated: Toronto, 1997] by C.M. Blackstock (Author)
All the Journey Through is also the story of the making of a Toronto family, though much of the narrative takes place outside the city. Recollecting her childhood in the 1920s and 1930s, the author begins with the large weekly family dinner parties and the Sunday afternoon teas for the children held at her grandmother's house in Toronto, and the happy times spent at that grandmother's summer house on Lake Simcoe. Then, quoting extensively from the letters, which date from 1817 to 1919, the author reaches further back into the past. 
 
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Toronto's Distillery District: history by the lake
by Gibson, Sally, 1946-
Toronto's Distillery District: history by the lake by Gibson, Sally, 1946-
A new book by Toronto archivist and historian Sally Gibson explores the Distillery District  
 
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Lawyers, families, and businesses : the shaping of a Bay Street law firm, Faskens, 1863-1963 by Kyer, Clifford Ian, 1949-
Lawyers, families, and businesses : the shaping of a Bay Street law firm, Faskens, 1863-1963 by Kyer, Clifford Ian, 1949-
Year/Format: 2013, Book , xvi, 319 p. :
Summary/Review: Ian Kyer, provides a superbly researched and fascinating study of the origins and development of the law firm now known as Fasken Martineau Dumoulin. Beginning in colonial Toronto in 1863 where two young lawyers, William Henry Beatty and Edward Marion Chadwick, established their partnership in 'one room, half furnished,' The firm represented Gooderham and Worts for many years and the first portion of the book provides an insider view of the legal challenges and complexities of the growth of Gooderham and Worts.

 
 
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Meadowvale Mills to Millennium by Kathleen A. Hicks.
Meadowvale Mills to Millennium by Kathleen A. Hicks.
An illustrated history of Meadowvale outside Toronto with particular emphasis on Mills. Gooderhams were operating farms and mills and even bought the wood to build their windmill in Meadowvale.  
 
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The Story of Florence Gooderham Hamilton Huestis
The Story of Florence Gooderham Hamilton Huestis
Florence, the adopted daughter of William Gooderham's son, Henry, was "driven by a strong desire to contribute her time and effort to improving the lot of those less fortunate than herself." In this essay, Kathy Southee writes that the spiritual values and sense of duty of William Gooderham was "modeled by members of his family over the next two generations". Her great grandmother Florence serves as an example. 
 
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Acheson Country by David Campion Acheson published by WW Norton
Acheson Country by David Campion Acheson published by WW Norton
This is a personal memoir of Dean Acheson, written by his son, who, in writing the book, wished readers to see the personal side of the statesman. The memoir shows us Dean Acheson at home with his wife, Alice, his friends and children, before and after his tenure as President Truman's Secretary of State. 
 
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G & W historic sources adapted from report  by Stephen A. Otto, 1994.
G & W historic sources adapted from report by Stephen A. Otto, 1994.
When developers created The Distillery District from the Gooderham & Worts distillery, Stephen Otto researched the history of the business and the people who built it. This is an adapted version of Stephen Otto's report on sources of archival materials on the Gooderham and Worts families. 
 
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Tales From the Hollow
The Story of Hogg's Hollow and York Mills
by Scott Kennedy
Tales From the Hollow The Story of Hogg's Hollow and York Mills by Scott Kennedy
Chapter 15, about the Gooderham's describes the business created by William George Gooderham, The Mineral Springs Limited, when he discovered a spring on the one hundred acres he bought in Hogg's Hollow.
FriesenPress Editions 2022 available here:
https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000226401067 
 
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Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace
Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace
Acheson is the first comprehensive biography of the most important and controversial secretary of state of the twentieth century. More than any other of the renowned "Wise Men" who shaped America's vision of the world in the aftermath of World War II, Dean Acheson was the quintessential man of action, the driving force behind the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO. James Chace has given us an important and dramatic work of history chronicling the momentous decisions, events, and fascinating personalities of the most critical decades of the American Century. 
 
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Framing Our Past edited by Anne Cook Lorna R McLean and Kate O Rourke
Framing Our Past edited by Anne Cook Lorna R McLean and Kate O Rourke
With introductory essays by historians, Framing Our Past emphasizes the lived experiences of women including a chapter by Magda Zakanyi, on the philanthropic work of a number of Gooderham women in the creation of what is now Holland Bloorview, once the Home for Incurable Children. 
 
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The York Club A Centennial History by Mary Byers
The York Club A Centennial History by Mary Byers
Publication information: [Toronto] : York Club, c2009.
ISBN: 0981259006 (bound)
ISBN: 9780981259000 (bound)
Language: English
Record ID: 2679421
Format: Regular Print Book
Physical description: 217 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
Date acquired: December 2, 2010
More creator details: Mary Byers.
Contributor: York Club (Toronto, Ont.)
This book has a well written and illustrated first chapter about the arrival of the Gooderhams and Worts families and the start of the Distillery. Available directly from the York Club. 
 
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Alcohol in Industry
Alcohol in Industry
by Gooderham & Worts, limited.
Year/Format: 1938, Book , 26 p. :
Subjects: Alcohol.
Private Press and Fine Printing Collection : PPFPC
Publication information: Toronto : Gooderham & Worts, ltd., [c1938].
Language: English
Corporate Author: Gooderham & Worts, limited.
Added author: Brigdens (Firm) 
 
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Annals of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club 1852 - 1937
Excerpts describing the history of the Gooderham's at the RCYC and the Oriole.
Annals of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club 1852 - 1937 Excerpts describing the history of the Gooderham's at the RCYC and the Oriole.
by Snider, C. H. J. (Charles Henry Jeremiah), 1879-1971.
Year/Format: 1937,
Subjects:
Royal Canadian Yacht Club--History.
Yachting--Ontario--Toronto.
Publication information: Toronto : Rous & Mann, 1937-
Language: English
Format: Regular Print Book
More creator details: compiled by C.H.J. Snider.
Contents note: [v. 1.] 1852-1937 
 
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The People's Boat: HMSC Oriole: Ship of a Thousand Dreams by  	
Shirley Hewett
The People's Boat: HMSC Oriole: Ship of a Thousand Dreams by Shirley Hewett
There may be no other sailing ship in North America that has touched the lives of so many people during 80-plus years of existence as HMCS Oriole. The design of famed MIT marine architect George Owen, the pride of original owner George Gooderham, commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, the steadfast training ship of the Royal Canadian Navy for more than five decades, and ultimately "the people's boat" in her home harbours of Esquimalt and Victoria, BC, HMCS Oriole continues to add to her legacy with every new nautical adventure.

Her fascinating history is captured by author and avid mariner Shirley Hewett in a narrative based on extensive interviews with Oriole's past captains and crew. Hewett listened to their stories, shared their insights and sailed the New Zealand leg of a South Pacific good-will voyage in 1998 aboard the Oriole as part of an international crew. "She is a ship that manufactures dreams," Hewett said. "Mine became to tell her many stories." 
 
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Murder in the Family by Jeff Blackstock
How the Search for My Mother's Killer Led to My Father
Murder in the Family by Jeff Blackstock How the Search for My Mother's Killer Led to My Father
Jeff Blackstock unravels the story of his mother’s death in the 1950s and lays it in the hands of his father, who at the time was a Canadian diplomat. 
 
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Canadian Whisky, Second Edition: The New Portable Expert
Canadian Whisky, Second Edition: The New Portable Expert
Davin de Kergommeaux takes readers on a journey through the first systematic presentation of Canadian whisky: how it's made, who makes it, why it has its own unique flavours, its history, culture and the rich centuries of folklore surrounding it. One chapter discusses the contribution of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery to this early history. 
 
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Booze Boats and Billions by C.W. Hunt
Booze Boats and Billions by C.W. Hunt
Year/Format: 1988, Book, 351 p., [16] p. of plates :
Subjects:
Distilling industries--Ontario--History.
Hatch family.
Prohibition--Ontario--History--20th century.
Prohibition--United States--History--20th century.
Smuggling--Ontario--History--20th century.
Smuggling--United States--History--20th century.
Publication information: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1988.
ISBN: 0771042647
Language: English
 
 
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Sisters in the Wilderness
Sisters in the Wilderness
In Sisters in the Wilderness, award-winning author Charlotte Gray breathes life into two remarkable and fascinating characters, Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr, and brings us a vivid picture of life in the backwoods of Upper Canada at the same time as our three ancestors arrived from England. Very well written and great context for understanding what our ancestors faced on arrival. 
 
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The Massey murder : a maid, her master and the trial that shocked a country
by Gray, Charlotte, 1948-
Year/Format: 2013, Book, 352 pages
The Massey murder : a maid, her master and the trial that shocked a country by Gray, Charlotte, 1948- Year/Format: 2013, Book, 352 pages
A scandalous crime, a sensational trial, a surprise verdict--the true story of Carrie Davies, the maid who shot a Massey

In February 1915, a member of one of Canada's wealthiest families was shot and killed on the front porch of his home in Toronto as he was returning from work. Carrie Davies, an 18-year-old domestic servant, quickly confessed. But who was the victim here? Charles "Bert" Massey, a scion of a famous family, or the frightened, perhaps mentally unstable Carrie, a penniless British immigrant? While not a book about Gooderhams, the Massey's were contemporaries. This book gives a sense of Toronto in 1915 in the Annex, just up the street from the homes of many of William Gooderham's great grandchildren. 
 
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Survivals: Aspects of Industrial Archaeology in Ontario
by Newell, Dianne and Greenhill, Ralph., Erin, Ont: Boston Mills Press, 1989. Pp. 225. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index.
Survivals: Aspects of Industrial Archaeology in Ontario by Newell, Dianne and Greenhill, Ralph., Erin, Ont: Boston Mills Press, 1989. Pp. 225. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index.
Newell, Dianne and Greenhill, Ralph., Survivals: Aspects of Industrial Archaeology in Ontario. Erin, Ont: Boston Mills Press, 1989. Pp. 225. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index. $39.50.

This attractive book is the joint effort of two long time workers in Canadian engineering and technological history. One is Dianne Newell who has also had a long interest in industrial archaeology. She wrote Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario, which was published in 1986. Ralph Greenhill is a noted collector and writer on photography. His major interest is the history of engineering which led to Engineer's Witness, published in 1985. For this book each author has produced five essays, each one with 7 to 10 pages of text and 10 to 14 pages of photographs, both historical and modern. As Newell acknowledges in her introduction, the book is actually about their favourite sites in southern Ontario. Their selection starts with the Rideau Canal and covers Grand Trunk Railway bridges and stations, the Hamilton Pumphouse, Gooderham & Worts Distillery (Toronto), soap factories in London and Guelph, the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge (Niagara River), the St. Clair Tunnel (Sarnia), and the Peterborough Lift Lock.

The book deals almost exclusively with structures.
Erin, Ont: Boston Mills Press, 1989. Pp. 225. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index.