Month: November 2011

Now Available – “The Reluctant Virgin,” the second book of the Toronto Trilogy Doug Taylor – author of “The Villages Within,” nominated for the Toronto

       City of Toronto Archives, The Globe and Mail Collection, Fonds 1488, Item 6614 The passage quoted below is from the novel, “There Never

    The City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail Collection, Fonds 1488, Item 6614 The Toyland Circus Float in the 1944 Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade

                      City of Toronto Archives, Series 372, SS 100, Item 457 The above photo illustrates the sight that greeted Torontonians on the  morning of December

City of Toronto Archives, Series 372, SS 0100, Item 449 Yonge Street looking north at Richmond Street the day after the great storm of 1944.

The worst snow storm to ever descend upon Toronto was in December of 1944. It holds the record as the most snow that ever fell

My grade one classroom at D. B. Hood Public School in Toronto in December of 1944. The following is from the book entitled “Arse Over

                                The Santa float in the Santa Claus Parade                      City of Toronto Archives, Series 1465, S0975, Fl 2306, id 33463-1 In 1944, in

                   The Santa Claus float at the parade on November 17, 1956.                           Photo from City of Toronto Archives,  Series 1465, S0975, File 2306,

 The following excerpt is from the novel “Arse Over Teakettle,” a story about a Toronto family struggling to cope with the horrors of the war