Toronto's Lost Villages (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Ron Brown | knygos.lt

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Toronto has ghosts: lost villages, hidden hamlets ...

Over more than two centuries, Toronto has ballooned from a muddy collection of huts on a swampy waterfront to become Canada's largest and most diverse city. Amid (and sometimes underneath) this urban agglomeration are the remains of many small communities that once dotted the region that is now Toronto and the GTA. Before European settlers arrived, there were Indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Ontario. With the arrival of the English, a host of farm hamlets, toll-gate stopovers, mill towns, and, later, railway and cottage communities sprang up. Vestiges of some are still preserved, others have disappeared forever. Some are remembered, many have been forgotten. In Toronto's Lost Villages, all their stories are brought back to life.