History
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Gift Guide: Toronto’s Distillery District — History by the Lake
A new book by Toronto archivist and historian Sally Gibson explores the Distillery District — “History by the Lake” — from its...
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Architecture Fetish: By George!
Toronto is a Georgian city. It’s our first architectural style and the basis of our city’s grid plan. There may not be much of it around...
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Coach House Books show at the AGO
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog for the grand re-opening of the new AGO...
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Event Guide: Book launch – “There Never Was a Better Time”
Local historian Doug Taylor (who is one of my neighbours) recently published his book There Never Was a Better Time, a fictionalized retelling of his...
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Monday’s headlines
• Mayor fires back at critics [ Toronto Star ] • Shuffle leaves 2 councillors fuming [ Toronto Star ] • Wanted: one integrity commissioner...
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1914 – 1918 Vigil at Nathan Phillips Square
When we think of World War I memorials we usually imagine stone or granite statues or traditional war memorials, not new media and technology. That has...
By Shawn Micallef