Year: 2011

There was a time when Torontonians referred to restaurants serving food that was questionable as “hamburger joints.” Today, such derogatory wording should be revised. The

Enduring the dank dark winters of Toronto should qualify a person for sainthood. The Catholic Church has nominated candidates for this exalted position who have

On Saturday 28 May, the Metropolitan United Church at Queen and Church streets was one of the nearly 150 sites that participated in Toronto’s “Doors

I recently attended a service in Mount Pleasant Cemetery to honour the memory of those members of the Salvation Army who perished when the Canadian

“One must look west from University Avenue on Queen Street to capture the visual flavour of old downtown.” —M. Kluchner, Toronto the Way It Was

Visiting Fort York  Today I walked among the oldest surviving buildings in our city. The fort was destroyed during the American invasion of York in

  When I was a child, we referred to Victoria Day as “Fire-Cracker Day.” There were few public displays of fireworks, and even if there

Painting of the Moon Bean Coffee Company at St. 30 Andrew Street, Kensington Market  (Acrylic on stretched canvas, 16’ x 20”)           Moon Bean

I have added another post on these historic buildings because this week I was able to photograph the foundations of one of the building. The