Month: August 2012

This painting of a dark winter evening at Yonge and Queen Streets evokes deep memories of my childhood, when I travelled downtown to Eaton’s. Christmas

                                    242 Queen Street West In 1864, on the site of the store seen in the above picture, was a small house owned by

                                For over a century, when gazing westward along Adelaide Street toward Bathurst Street, the magnificent Gothic spire of St. Mary’s has dominated the vista.

      The Wheat Sheaf at the southwest corner of Bathurst and King Streets                                                    The Wheat Sheaf Tavern on the southwest corner of King and

In 1900, the “Pizza Pizza” outlet at 260 Church Street, on the southwest corner of Jarvis and Church Streets, was the site of the home

The mid-summer holiday in August is always glorious anticipated. Though we are aware the summer is half spent, we revel in the lazy days of

One of Toronto’s timeless residential streets near Huron Street amid the downtown core During the heat wave in August of 2012, I visited Huron Street,

Have you recently walked past this hulking shell of a building on the northwest corner of Peter and Richmond Street? The interior of the building

These three homes at 324-328 Richmond Street West were built in 1870s. The house of the left-hand side of the photo (#328), and the one