Sally Gibson
{{Short description|Author, archivist and heritage consultant}}
Sally Gibson is an author, archivist and heritage consultant who resides in Toronto and has written three books about the city and its heritage. She has a Master of Urban Studies from Yale University, and a Master of Library Science and a Ph.D. in Urban Geography from the University of Toronto. Gibson grew up in New Jersey, went to Vassar College, and moved to Toronto in 1969. Her first book, More than an Island: A History of the Toronto Island was described by urban thinker Jane Jacobs as "city history at its very best". Her second book, Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to 1920s, was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award and won a Heritage Toronto Book Award of Excellence in 2007. Her third book, Toronto’s Distillery District: History by the Lake, evolved from her work as the Distillery District's site historian and won a Heritage Toronto Book Award of Merit in 2009.
Publications
- Toronto's Distillery District: History by the Lake. Toronto: Distillery Historic District, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-9809905-0-8}}
- Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to 1920s. Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2006 {{cite news | title=Cormorant Books | url =http://www.cormorantbooks.com/titles/insidetoronto.htm | access-date = 2008-09-26 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080622104546/http://www.cormorantbooks.com/titles/insidetoronto.htm |archive-date = 2008-06-22}} {{ISBN|1-896951-95-3}}, {{ISBN|978-1-896951-95-9}}
- More Than an Island: A History of the Toronto Island. Toronto: Irwin, 1984 {{cite news | title=Toronto Island Community | url =http://torontoisland.org/Soyouwant/IslandAuthors/SallyGibson/tabid/152/Default.aspx | access-date = 2008-09-26 }} {{ISBN|0-7720-1446-9}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7720-1446-7}}
Awards
- Heritage Toronto Award of Merit 2009, for Toronto's Distillery District: History by the Lake
- Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals, Communications Award 2009, for Distillery District Tenant Handouts Project
- Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence 2008, for Distillery District Heritage Website at www.distilleryheritage.com
- Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals, Communications Award 2008, for Distillery District Heritage Website at www.distilleryheritage.com
- Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence 2007, for Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s-1920s
- City of Toronto Book Award finalist 2007, for Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s-1920s {{cite news | title=Toronto Book Awards - 2007 | url =http://www.toronto.ca/book_awards/2007/inside-toronto.htm | access-date = 2008-09-26 }}
- Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals Communications Award 2007, for Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s-1920s {{cite news| title=The Writer's Union of Canada| url=http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=102&L=| access-date=2008-09-26| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616202024/http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=102&L=| archive-date=2011-06-16}}
See also
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Category:21st-century Canadian historians
Category:Vassar College alumni
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:University of Toronto alumni
Category:Canadian women historians
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