Description:
Toronto, the Belfast of Canada explores the intolerant origins of today's cosmopolitan city.
Brief description: William J. Smyth is the president emeritus of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and a past president of the Geographical Society of Ireland and the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland.
Review Quotes:
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"