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Inside Hamilton's Museums
Take a journey through Hamilton’s past by way of the houses, heritage museums, and historic sites. Learn about founders, families, wars, and politics through tours of the grounds and houses and a discussion of some of the most prized possessions contained therein.
282 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 30, 2016
About the author
John Goddard
20 books2 followersJohn Goddard works as a Toronto-based journalist, author, copy editor, and media professional. His interests range widely. He travels extensively. He enjoys both writing hard news to deadline, and delving into subjects that most news organizations tend to let fall through the cracks.
As a reporter for The Canadian Press, he covered the American Hostage Crisis in Tehran, and opened the agency’s first bureau in the Far North, based in Yellowknife.
At the Southam News agency, he covered national arts & entertainment news — books, film, dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts.
As a freelance magazine writer for fifteen years, he wrote on everything from a mass caribou drowning in northern Quebec, to the adventures of B.C. author Edith Iglauer, to the truth behind Farley Mowat’s early Arctic books. All three stories won awards.
At the Toronto Star for twelve years until recently, he served variously as a photographer, copy editor, page-layout editor, world-music columnist, reporter for the city-news, business and entertainment sections, and once as videographer documenting pop-star Kemer Yousuf on his triumphant homecoming tour of Ethiopia.
Goddard has written or collaborated on six books covering such diverse subjects as the Arab-Israeli conflict, Indian land rights, and rock and roll. His most recent book tells the stories behind Toronto’s heritage museums and their most-prized artifacts.
As a reporter for The Canadian Press, he covered the American Hostage Crisis in Tehran, and opened the agency’s first bureau in the Far North, based in Yellowknife.
At the Southam News agency, he covered national arts & entertainment news — books, film, dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts.
As a freelance magazine writer for fifteen years, he wrote on everything from a mass caribou drowning in northern Quebec, to the adventures of B.C. author Edith Iglauer, to the truth behind Farley Mowat’s early Arctic books. All three stories won awards.
At the Toronto Star for twelve years until recently, he served variously as a photographer, copy editor, page-layout editor, world-music columnist, reporter for the city-news, business and entertainment sections, and once as videographer documenting pop-star Kemer Yousuf on his triumphant homecoming tour of Ethiopia.
Goddard has written or collaborated on six books covering such diverse subjects as the Arab-Israeli conflict, Indian land rights, and rock and roll. His most recent book tells the stories behind Toronto’s heritage museums and their most-prized artifacts.
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August 14, 2016
The best part of this book is that I am cited in it! John Goddard has written a book giving context for Hamilton's museums, and in the part about the Joseph Brant museum in Burlington, he cites some of the research I have done about the life of Sophia Pooley, who was a black slave owned by Joseph Brant. See pages 175-176 for my name! (Please note that although I have given a talk about this research at the Joseph Brant museum, as far as I know, the museum has never curated any displays or mention for the public view about Joseph Brant's slaves). Goddard wrote an earlier book like this for Toronto's Museums, and this one includes Dundurn Castle, Whitehern, the Museum of Steam and Technology, Battlefield House, the Griffin House and Erland Lee Museum as well as the Joseph Brant museum.
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