Toronto, the Belfast of Canada: The Orange Order and the Shaping of Municipal Culture by William J. Smyth

Toronto, the Belfast of Canada: The Orange Order and the Shaping of Municipal Culture

William J. Smyth

328 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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In late nineteenth-century Toronto, municipal politics were so dominated by the Irish Protestants of the Orange Order that the city was known as the "Belfast of Canada." For almost a century, virtually every mayor of Toronto was an Orangeman and t...

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