History
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READ Fall 2017 edition of Fife and Drum: Prince Harry, apiaries & a “Crustade” recipie
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...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Painting of Rolling Mills
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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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 016, the Racist Roots of Canadian Cities
In this episode, we speak to Toronto Dreams Project founder Adam Bunch, who took a tour this summer of Toronto’s problematic landmarks. We also ask...
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The North Market and what Toronto can learn from Barcelona’s El Born
Part of a mayor’s job is to build the city, even as he takes care with taxpayers’ money. John Tory has an opportunity to add a big brick for...
By Alfred Holden -
50 Objects That Define Toronto: 1856 Panorama by Armstrong, Beere, and Hime
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: Bottle of Gooderham and Worts Rye Whisky
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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The tragic final days of Lucy Maud Montgomery
This is where Lucy Maud Montgomery died: the house she called Journey’s End. It’s on Riverside Drive in Swansea: the west end of Toronto...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: William Davies Company’s St. Lawrence Market Stall
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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John Graves Simcoe’s weird relationship with slavery
Meet John Graves Simcoe. Founder of Toronto. British veteran of the American Revolution. And an avowed abolitionist with a very weird and complicated...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Proclamation for William Lyon Mackenzie’s Capture & Rebels’ Prisoner Box of 1837
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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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 015, Summer Reading Series, Part II
We speak to Globe & Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic about Toronto Architecture: a city guide, a series of guided walking tours through...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: First Map of Toronto
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