The tragic final days of Lucy Maud Montgomery

This is where Lucy Maud Montgomery died: the house she called Journey’s End. It’s on Riverside Drive in Swansea: the west... Read More

John Graves Simcoe’s weird relationship with slavery

Meet John Graves Simcoe. Founder of Toronto. British veteran of the American Revolution. And an avowed abolitionist with a very weird... Read More

Women have been playing baseball for as long as anyone can remember. And for much of that time, they’ve been playing despite the... Read More

It was the last winter of the Second World War. 1945. The first week of February. Far away in Europe, the Nazis were crumbling: the... Read More

It was late. The Noronic was quiet. The ship was docked at the foot of Yonge Street, gently rocking in the dark waves. Almost everyone... Read More

The Most Dangerous Woman in the World was playing a quiet game of cards. It was a snowy Toronto evening in the winter of 1940, that... Read More

1687. A year of war and famine on the shores of Lake Ontario. That summer, on a night in early July, an army camped near the mouth of... Read More

The very first legendary home run ever hit in Toronto was hit in 1887. More than a century before Joe Carter’s famous World... Read More

The bases were loaded. It was the bottom of the eight. This was it: first place was on the line. Toronto and Newark headed into that... Read More

The Blue Jays had won the World Series. For the first time in history, Major League Baseball’s championship banner was flying... Read More