Inside the Museum — Montgomery's Inn
By John Goddard
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John Goddard
John Goddard is an author, magazine writer, and former Toronto Star reporter. His books include Inside the Museums: Toronto’s Heritage Sites and Their Most Prized Objects and Rock and Roll Toronto, with pop critic Richard Crouse. John lives in Toronto.
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Inside the Museum — Montgomery's Inn - John Goddard
To my late godfather, John Wedgewood Green,
whose love and financial support made this book possible.
Contents
Cover
Title page
Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 8
Bibliography
Copyright
Preface and
Acknowledgements
Photo by John Goddard
Thousands of subway riders glimpse it absently every day. A portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie peers from the platform mural at Queen Station, his face as round and orange as a wheel of cheese, his expression as knotted as when he first encountered Upper Canada’s stifling elite. Mackenzie served as Toronto’s first mayor and led the star-crossed Rebellion of Upper Canada. He was the grandfather of William Lyon Mackenzie King — Canada’s tenth prime minister, whose own orange-pink visage graces the Canadian fifty-dollar bill — and died three blocks from his subway-wall portrait, at a house that the city preserves as a museum.
One day I decided to visit the house. Like many people, I knew of Toronto’s heritage museums, and had been meaning to get around to seeing them. Mackenzie House, as it is called, proved a revelation. I discovered something called a Rebellion Box,
one of hundreds of small wooden boxes tenderly carved for mothers and sweethearts by accused rebels awaiting trial in Toronto’s cold, damp jail. Upstairs, I saw the bedroom where Isabel Grace Mackenzie, nicknamed Bell,
slept during her adolescence and young adulthood, before becoming Mrs. Isabel King and mother to a future prime minister. In a back room, I briefly operated an 1845 Washington rolling flatbed press, of the kind Mackenzie used late in his career to foment against official self-interest and hypocrisy.
I also learned something else. The city’s heritage museums are interconnected. The builder of what is now the Spadina House Museum once worked as a teenage apprentice in Mackenzie’s print shop. The home of David Gibson, one of