The Toronto Mechanic's Institute: An Agent of Canadianization?
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| Year of Publication |
2004
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| Contributors |
Author:
Elaine Boone |
| Journal |
Feliciter
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| Volume |
50
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| Issue |
1
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| Pagination |
21-23
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| Annotation |
The Toronto Mechanic’s Institute was an educational institution for workers. Despite closing due to financial difficulties in 1883, the author concludes that the Institute promoted literacy and learning and "succeeded in offering the people of Toronto a reading room and library, and popular classes."
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