The latest edition of Fife and Drum, the quarterly journal produced by the Friends of Fort York, was just released. Here’s some of what you’ll find inside.
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Bentway Skate Trail Opens @ Fort York on January 6
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Neighbourhood School Named for Alexander Macdonell, the Fighting Bishop
 - Mary Beacock Fryer (1929–2017)
 - The Electronic Capture of Fort York
 - A Changing of the Guard at Fife & Drum
 - 2017 accomplishments
 
All free!
You can download a PDF of the current issue here. Here you’ll also find back issues of Fife and Drum to download.
Fife & Drum lists upcoming events and recent goings-on at the fort, but it also has, since the Friends began publishing it in 1996, exhaustively researched essays and stories about the fort, Toronto and related history. I serve as volunteer director on the Friends of Fort York board, the volunteer advocacy organization that has helped look after the interests of City of Toronto’s premier museum site