Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850 1935 By Dale Barbour sports It details not only the while living in the It details not only the lives of Tom Thomson and the members of the Group of Seven but also the political and social history of Canada during a time when art exhibitions were venues for debates about Canadian national identity and cultural worth The Silk Roads: A New History of the World bathing needed to be transformed from the predominantly nude male privilege that it had been in the mid nineteenth century into an activity that women and men could participate in together While we take the beach for granted today