History
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Computer love: Toronto’s first electronic dates
Bill McNeil and Judy Perry were among the first people ever fixed up by a computer. In 1957, three decades before the first dating websites and 55 years...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: CCM Bicycles
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
By Spacing -
50 Objects That Define Toronto: Of Toronto The Good
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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My Grandfather Worked Here: The Unilever soap factory in photos and memory
The closed-down Unilever soap factory near the bottom of the Don River has been there since 1890. For ten days in the fall of 2017 it became the sight of...
By Chris Penrose -
50 Objects That Define Toronto: Letter Vouching for William Peyton Hubbard
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Fragments of The Temple Building
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
By Spacing -
50 Objects That Define Toronto: Don Valley Brick Works Brick
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Eaton’s Catalogue
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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HERITAGE TORONTO AWARDS: List of 2017 winners
Here are the nominees and winners of the 2017 Toronto Heritage Awards: 2017 Special Achievement Award The Heritage Toronto Board of Directors is pleased...
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A million Canadian post-war homes
The Camisso family never expected a parade when they bought their first house, a little suburban bungalow in the new Wishing Well Acres subdivision near...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Ned Hanlan’s Sliding Rowing Seat
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new...
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A modest proposal: An archeology park for downtown Toronto
Urban archaeology is a process that allows us to imagine the past in a very concrete way. And that imagining, even based on the smallest of artifacts...
By Michael McClelland