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Book SynopsisToronto, the Belfast of Canada explores the intolerant origins of today's cosmopolitan city.
Trade Review'It is one of the few studies exploring Order's interface with public power structures and contributes significantly to the growing literature of diasporic global Orangeism.' -- Deborah Butcher Journal of Historical Geography vol 30:1-2:2015 'This is a well written and impressively researched study of the role and impact of the orange order fraternity in shaping of a civic culture in Toronto between 1850 and 1950.' -- William Jenkins Canadian Historical Review vol 97:02:2016 Toronto, the Belfast of Canada locates Orangeism in a wider imperial frame, and deftly handles the comparisons with other territories - not least Belfast, where Smyth's cross-analysis is detailed. He correctly correlates Canadian Orangeism with the Order in Ulster. ... Smyth is able to show that, in a comparative emigrant context, Orangeism in Canada was unique, and at the heart of it was Toronto. -- Donald Macraild Times Higher Education, August 13, 2015
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Canada and Ireland: Toronto and Belfast. The Imperial Context 2. A Tale of Two Cities: Belfast and Toronto 3. Toronto Orangeism: The Nature and Structure of The Orange Order 4. Power, Patronage and Public Employment within the Protestant City, 1850-1920 5. The Emergence of a New Order: Toronto's Orangemen at the Close of The Nineteenth Century 6. The Climax and Onset of Decline of the Orange Order, 1900-1940 7. The Faded Sash: Toronto and Orangeism, 1940-c.1950 8. Conclusion
