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    From Horse Power to Horsepower: Toronto: 1890-1930
    From Horse Power to Horsepower: Toronto: 1890-1930
    From Horse Power to Horsepower: Toronto: 1890-1930
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    From Horse Power to Horsepower: Toronto: 1890-1930

    By Mike Filey

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    From the 1890s through the 1920s, as horse gave way to machine, the look of Toronto and the lifestyles of its inhabitants were irrevocably altered. From Horse Power to Horsepower is a pictorial history of the vehicles of the era.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateJul 25, 1996
    ISBN9781459717732
    From Horse Power to Horsepower: Toronto: 1890-1930
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    Mike Filey

    Mike Filey was born in Toronto in 1941. He has written more than two dozen books on various facets of Toronto's past and for more than thirty-five years has contributed a popular column, "The Way We Were," to the Toronto Sunday Sun. His Toronto Sketches series is more popular now than ever before.

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