Dan Horner, Toronto Metropolitan University

Research

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Latest papers

Book Review: Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal by Harvey Janice JaniceHarvey. (2024). Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 440 pp. $49.95 (Paperback), ISBN 9780228020561.
Journal of Family History · 2026 · first author
6 Encountering a Ravaged People in the Modern City: The Impact of the Irish Famine Migration on Montreal’s Urban Landscape
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks · 2025 · first author
Ian Radforth. Expressive Acts: Celebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto
Urban History Review · 2024 · first author

All 25 publications

25 publications.

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Book Review: Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal by Harvey Janice JaniceHarvey. (2024). Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 440 pp. $49.95 (Paperback), ISBN 9780228020561.

Dan Horner

Journal of Family History2026First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/03631990261467348

02

6 Encountering a Ravaged People in the Modern City: The Impact of the Irish Famine Migration on Montreal’s Urban Landscape

Dan Horner

McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks2025First author

DOI: 10.1515/9780228025870-010

03

Ian Radforth. Expressive Acts: Celebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto

Dan Horner

Urban History Review2024First author

DOI: 10.3138/uhr-02-2024-05

04

Aurélien, Maxime et Ted Rutland. Il fallait se défendre. L’histoire du premier gang de rue haïtien à Montréal (Montréal, Mémoire d’encrier, 2023), 272 p.

Dan Horner

Revue d histoire de l Amérique française2024First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.7202/1118139ar

05

Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870. Daniel Carpenter

Dan Horner

Canadian Historical Review2023First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.3138/chr-104-2-rev03

06

Behind Strong Palings: Producing Knowledge in the Modern City at Montreal’s Emigrant Sheds, 1832–1852

Dan Horner

Urban History Review20221 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.3138/uhr-2021-0006

07

Major-General George Alan Vasey: Commander, 7th Australian Division

Dan Horner

2021First author

DOI: 10.4324/9781003119708-16

08

Reiter, Eric. Wounded Feelings. Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2019, 482 p.

Dan Horner

Revue d histoire de l Amérique française2021First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.7202/1088230ar

09

Ruth Bleasdale. Rough Work: Labourers on the Public Works of British North American and Canada, 1841–1882

Dan Horner

University of Toronto Quarterly2021First author

DOI: 10.3138/utq.89.3.hr.05

10

Taking to the Streets

Dan Horner

2020First author

DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv136c575

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Daniel Horner

Urban, Regional, Local History

25 shared papers, latest 2026

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Horner, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Book Review: Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal by Harvey Janice JaniceHarvey. (2024). Their Benevolent Design: Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 440 pp. $49.95 (Paperback), ISBN 9780228020561." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]