| Waterloo You Never Knew: Life on the Margins Contributor(s): Rickert-Hall, Joanna (Author), Kirkwood Walker, Stephanie (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1459742907 ISBN-13: 9781459742901 Publisher: Dundurn Group OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - History | Social History |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The history you don't know is the most fascinating of all. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Waterloo, Ontario, could be any small Canadian community. Its familiar histories privilege the "great accomplishments" of those who built the institutions we know today: industry, government, and education. But what of those who were marginalized, weird, and wonderful -- real people who lived between the boundaries of mainstream existence? Waterloo You Never Knew reveals forgotten and little known tales of a community in transition and reflects on those lives lived in infamy and obscurity, by choice or design. Meet the rumrunner, the ex-slaves, and the cholera victims, the grave-digging doctor, the s ance-loving politician, and the sorcery-practising healer. Come inside. See the Waterloo you never knew, revealed. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rickert-Hall, Joanna: - Joanna Rickert-Hall is a social historian engaged in the unending search for arcane and overlooked histories. She is the 2015 recipient of the Jean Steckle Award for Excellence in heritage education. Joanna lives in Waterloo, Ontario. |
