Torontonians have been fighting over road tolls for nearly 200 years

Toronto was just a tiny little frontier town when its first road tolls were introduced. That was back in 1820; York wasn’t even 30... Read More

LORINC: Whatever became of Toronto’s first priority neighbourhood?

Almost a century before the United Way’s Poverty by Postal Code report (2004) begat the City’s “priority neighbourhood” strategy... Read More

Nobody could beat him. Ever since the beginning of the French Revolution, France had been fighting wars with pretty much every single... Read More

One of my favourite primary sources for old Toronto history is Anna Jameson’s diary, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in... Read More

Tonight, for the first time in 20 years, the Blue Jays will start a new season as one of the favourites to win the World Series. But... Read More

The March issue of the Friends of Fort York’s quarterly newsletter, Fife and Drum, has just been released. The contents... Read More

In 1798, John Sullivan and Michael Flannery got drunk. They were drinking whisky at one of the very first taverns ever built in... Read More

Twenty years before she played Aunt Hetty on Road To Avonlea, Jackie Burroughs met Zal Yanovsky while he was living in a dryer in a... Read More

; This photo of Antarctica was taken more than 100 years ago — back in the days when most of the icy continent had yet to be seen by... Read More

This past fall I revisited the Richard Serra Shift sculpture, found up in King City, and wrote about it in my Toronto Star column. The... Read More