Undressed Toronto : From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1935

Looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront.