By Adam Bunch
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Mary Pickford’s most magical photographs
Back in the early 1900s, Mary Pickford wasn’t just one of the most famous people from Toronto. She was one of the most famous people from anywhere...
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John Graves Simcoe, Napoleon Bonaparte & the politics of horse shit
This is a photo of horse shit. But it’s not just any photo of horse shit. This horse shit is on Woodbury Common — a beautiful patch of heathland in...
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Toronto’s small piece of a Wonder of the Ancient World
You’ll find him on the third floor of the Royal Ontario Museum. He’s tucked away in a quiet, easy-to-miss corner far at the back of a room...
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Toronto’s rebel mayor and his pirate admiral
William Lyon Mackenzie ran for his life. His rebellion had failed. It was a disaster. His rebel army was crushed on Yonge Street. His headquarters at...
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A tour of Queen & Spadina a hundred years ago
It has been nearly 200 years since the intersection of Queen & Spadina was born. When the two roads first met, Toronto still wasn’t even a city...
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The Canadian stop on the London Underground
This is Canada Water Station. It’s a stop on the London Underground. It’s right near the River Thames, in the middle of the city, just a...
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Toronto’s founding dog — and how he almost got eaten
It was the summer of 1793. The summer our city was founded. On an early Tuesday morning, as the late July sun rose above Lake Ontario, a British warship...
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Remembering the Great Toronto Fire of 1904
It was a miserably cold night, with bitter gusts of wind and a light snow even though it was the middle of April. And about an hour after sunset, things...
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The true story of Toronto’s island ghost
They say that on some dark nights, as an eerie mist creeps over the Toronto islands, you can still hear him moaning somewhere in the distance. On others...
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An illustrated history of baseball in Toronto
No one knows exactly when baseball was born. There’s a story about an American war hero, Abner Doubleday, inventing the game in the 1830s, but...
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The bloody Burlington Races and the war for Lake Ontario
They appeared out of the darkness, looming above the waves. Ten warships sailing across Lake Ontario, far out in the water south of Toronto. They were...
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A tour of Toronto’s skyline in the summer of 1930
The summer of 1930. It was the beginning of a difficult decade for Toronto, along with much of the rest of the world. The Great Depression had just begun...