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Event Guide: Heritage Toronto Awards on October 27
One of our favorite events each year is the Heritage Toronto Awards. As I mentioned last year, these awards are an important morale booster as sometimes...
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Babylon: Myth and Truth – the prototype of the big bad city
When I visited Berlin this June, I was excited to have the opportunity to visit an exhibition I had read about called Babylon: Myth and Truth, at the...
By Dylan Reid -
Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: The Story of an Estate & Its Neighbourhood, and The Guild Inn Gardens
This weekend’s Heritage Toronto walking tours are a great way to get out and explore the city (free + no reservations required): Spadina: The Story...
By Matthew Hague -
Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: Faces on Places, Edwards Gardens and Wilket Creek, and Colourful Corktown
This weekend’s Heritage Toronto walking tours are a great way to get out and explore the city (free + no reservations required): NEW! Faces on...
By Matthew Hague -
1982 Flashback: Margaret Atwood on Toronto
Found deep in the electronic archives of the New York Times is this long 1982 travel article on Toronto by Margaret Atwood. It’s got the usual...
By Shawn Micallef -
Great Fire of Toronto in 1904 video clip
[flv]http://www.toronto.ca/fire/news/100/images/fire_1904.swf[/flv] I haven’t been a fan of the Toronto Star’s recent addition of comments to...
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Architecture Fetish: A PoMo ProMo
Postmodern architecture may often be equated with the excess of the 80s and may be derided along with shoulder pads and power suits as an unfortunate...
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Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: Lambton Mills, and African-Canadian Women in Early Toronto
This weekend’s Heritage Toronto walking tours are a great way to get out and explore the city (free + no reservations required): Lambton Mills...
By Matthew Hague -
Event Guide: Free Simcoe Day events at Fort York
WHAT: Simcoe Day 2008 Celebrations WHERE: Fort York National Historic Site WHEN: Monday August 4, 10AM-5PM Free Admission EVENTS: Parade at 1:00 pm...
By Shawn Micallef -
Old Markham and Heritage Estates
After visiting the “Downtown Markham” site last Saturday, I went on to the old village of Markham. What’s interesting is the lack of...
By Sean Marshall -
ROM quietly raises admission prices… again
I was at the Royal Ontario Museum earlier today for a media view and was shocked to see that the admission price has quietly risen 10% or more across the...
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Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: Bâby Point, and in the Footsteps of Black Victorians
This weekend’s Heritage Toronto walking tours are a great way to get out and explore the city (free + no reservations required): Bà¢by Point: 10 000...
By Matthew Hague