The Toronto Book of the Dead

Name: The Toronto Book of the Dead
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Adam Bunch
ISBN: 9781459748002

Author: Adam Bunch

Narrator: Adam Bunch

Unabridged: 12 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 11/15/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Canadian History, Social History, True Crime

Synopsis

Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk… With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist. Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ira on August 18, 2020

The book wasn't what I expected it was much better. I didn't look too much into the description and when I started reading it I expected to read about some true crime stories through history happening in Toronto. Unsolved and especially gruesome murders etc. The book ended up being more historical f......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on May 08, 2019

A fascinating history of Toronto: the good, the bad and the truly horrible...and sometimes the funny. I’m not sure where the phrase “Toronto the good” originated but whoever created that phrase wasn’t considering the city’s history, at least as it is recounted in the context laid out in this book. A......more

Goodreads review by TanguiDom on August 07, 2022

Very interesting book. I wanted to learn more about the history of Toronto and this book does just that while remembering a few people who lived on the land and helped shape it, shining a light on their lives and their legacy.......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on July 26, 2021

A fascinating journey through layers of Toronto history with each new era of people, places and events building upon what came before them. The book begins with a Wendat First Nation burial mound that is now in a park in the east end of the city, and ends with a lawyer who accidentally fell to his d......more

Goodreads review by Teena in Toronto on February 09, 2018

I live in Toronto and I'm always looking for books about the history of Toronto so that's why this one caught my eye. The stories are all focused on death with a Toronto connection. The first story is about the discovery of a 700-year-old mass grave while they were building a subdivision in Scarborou......more