Resonators - Shane, Franklin, Jacobs, Goldman

room 7 ECHOES

Location: Toronto

Four women from different eras immigrated to Toronto and shaped the way we think about culture, identity, technology, politics, and activism, shaping the city with their distinctive voices.


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Jane Jacobs - University Avenue

In an excerpt from a 1969 interview for the CBC's "The Way It Is", Jane Jacobs comments on the plann…

Jane Jacobs - Spadina Expressway

In an interview with CBC, Jane Jacobs describes the greatest threat to Toronto was at the time of re…

Jane Jacobs - Cedarvale Ravine

In an 1969 interview for CBC's "The Way It Is" laments the precarity of Toronto's ravines as the cit…

Jane Jacobs - Cedarvale Ravine

In an 1969 interview for CBC's "The Way It Is" laments the precarity of Toronto's ravines as the cit…

Emma Goldman Speech, read by Sandra Oh

Emma Goldman, who J. Edgar Hoover once named “the most dangerous woman in America", lived in Toronto…

Jackie Shane - Any Other Way

Jackie Shane is a legendary transgender soul pioneer who arrived in Toronto in 1959, garnering fans …

Franklin - The Real World of Technology

From the 1989 Massey Lectures, Dr Ursula Franklin delivered a lecture series at George Ignatieff The…

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