History
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Quebec re-enactment battle cancelled due to threats
Over the last few weeks I’ve been talking with folks organizing the bicentennial celebrations of the War of 1812. One of the possible events...
By Matthew Blackett -
Old TTC tickets
With the weather making it feel like spring, I decided to start clearing out some of my clutter. In doing so, I discovered two old TTC tickets in an...
By Matthew Blackett -
Building Storeys: Long Live the Guild
The Guild Inn, 2008, by Olena Sullivan. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema final post in his series on at-risk heritage...
By Gary Miedema -
The Parkdale seal: 1879-1889
The 1998 creation of the “megacity”, a merger of all of metro Toronto’s cities and boroughs, was the last in a long line of annexations...
By Matthew Blackett -
Building Storeys: George Street’s deteriorating past
295 George Street, 2008, by Olena Sullivan EDITOR’S NOTE: Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema will be making a series of posts on structures...
By Gary Miedema -
Building Storeys: Little House in the Valley
Milne House (2008), photographed by Olena Sullivan ED: Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema will be making a series of posts on structures around the...
By Gary Miedema -
Stories of a sandstone giant at Old City Hall
Workers replacing Old City Hall’s roof pose by a gargoyle overlooking Terauly St (now Bay), 1920. In the 1890’s, long trains loaded down with...
By Mathew Borrett -
A buried neighbourhood
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing illustrator and contributor Mathew Borrett has joined our blog team and will post occasionally about interesting finds in the...
By Mathew Borrett -
Saving a suburban supermarket
The Metro grocery store at Parkway Mall at Ellesmere and Victoria Park in Scarborough (Google Map |MSN Live Search Map) was just nominated for historical...
By Sean Marshall -
1992 Yonge Street Riot
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZtRw9II2s[/youtube] I came across this interesting find on YouTube recently — it’s an extended clip...
By Shawn Micallef -
Eating in Toronto 1830-1955 exhibit at Reference Library
Stuffed from the holidays? Never want to eat chocolate and brie again? Got the “muffin-top begone” mentality? Great! Then it’s the right...
By Leah Sandals -
Ontario Travelogue from 1942
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSQEmgEm0gA[/youtube] Here’s a lush Ontario-proud technicolor travelogue from the 1930s to warm up this...
By Shawn Micallef