By Peter MacCallum
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The Urban Photography of Arthur Goss, Part 2: The Housing Series, 1936-1940
The Housing Series is the product of the last new project Arthur Goss undertook as the City’s Official Photographer. Between March, 1936 and January...
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The Urban Photography of Arthur Goss, Part 1
Anyone who delves into the visual records related to Toronto’s twentieth-century social history is likely to come across photographs taken between 1910...
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A Perfect Fit: KOPS Records at its original Queen West location
Between 1995 and 2020, Canada’s oldest independent record retailer, KOPS Records, occupied an aged storefront at 229 Queen Street West, between Simcoe and...
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Lost heritage on Queen West
According to a recent CBC News report, the gable-roofed wooden commercial storefront at 520 Queen Street West was about 170 years old when its new owner...
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Farewell to Malabar, Toronto’s former costume emporium
Malabar Limited, the famed costume emporium, closed in March 2022. Although it had been a fixture of downtown Toronto’s cultural landscape for 99 years...
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Photographing Toronto’s suburban strip malls
With an essay by Orly Linovski. A documentary project focused exclusively on the architecture of suburban strip malls: this idea occurred to me while I...
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From Sunlight Park to East Harbour, Part 2 of 2
This second part of my feature on Lever Brothers soap and detergent manufacturing in the lower Don Valley will examine the eight-decade history of Plant...
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From Sunlight Park to East Harbour (Part 1 of 2)
In July, 2021, the developer Cadillac Fairview introduced a revised plan for the transformation of the former Unilever soap manufacturing site in the...
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The fading of the garment district factories: McGregor Socks, Spadina Avenue, 2003
In 2003 I began a two part documentary photography project featuring the McGregor Socks knitting mill on Spadina Avenue, and the Korex soap and detergent...
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Camera Shy : Downtown Bathurst Street
As a documentary photographer of architecture, I take a strictly non-hierarchical approach to recording Toronto’s urban fabric. I see my work as belonging...
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Recording Hart Massey’s Factory and Concert Hall
In 1986, I photographed the historic, sprawling Massey Ferguson farm machinery plant in Toronto just as demolition work was getting underway. Staying one...
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Research Road Redux
During the Second World War, my mother, Louise MacCallum, was among the 7,500 employees of Research Enterprises Limited (REL), a top-secret...