History

How Toronto helped break up The Beatles

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At first, no one believed it was really happening. It sounded too good to be true. The Toronto Rock ‘N’ Rock Revival Show... Read More

EVENT: Toronto’s First Post Office fundraiser pays tribute to “The Dumbells” March 6th

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Our friends at The Town of York Historical Society are throwing a 180th birthday party for Toronto (and along the way raising some... Read More

Winterdream — a 1993 walk through Allan Gardens and Cawthra Park

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Occasionally Toronto filmmaker James Leahy puts together some of the Super 8 footage he shot in Toronto from the late 1980s onwards... Read More

Down at Fraggle Rock… in Yorkville — The Muppets take Toronto

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It all started in 1981 at the Hyde Park Hotel in London, England. Jim Henson was there with some of his writers and puppeteers. For... Read More

Toronto hearts Stalingrad — “adopting” the Soviet city during WWII

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It was the summer of 1942 and things were looking good for Hitler. The Nazis had already swept across Europe; now they were pushing on... Read More

Yorkville Avenue fire at former home of Toronto writer Mazo de la Roche

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Yesterday’s fire at 86 and 84 Yorkville Avenue was a day long event; when I walked by 11 hours after it started Toronto Fire was... Read More

Lee’s Palace before it was Lee’s Palace — the roots of Toronto’s famous music venue

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This is what Lee’s Palace looked like when it first opened, nearly 100 years ago. It was the spring of 1919 — the first few... Read More

Elizabeth Simcoe’s 1794 nightmare — the story behind one of Toronto’s first recorded dreams

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Toronto was founded in a troubled time. It was the summer of 1793 when the first British soldiers showed up to clear the forest and... Read More

Good reads: winter issue of Fort York’s free newsletter, Fife and Drum, is out

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The December issue of the Friends of Fort York’s quarterly newsletter, Fife and Drum was released just before the new year.  The... Read More