The newspaper headlines of the 1970s do not reflect the same degree of turmoil as the previous decade. However, federal elections in Canada and the
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Headlines in Toronto’s newspapers in the 1960s
The 1960s was a tumultuous decade. I commenced collecting important newspapers in 1951, but of all these newspapers, those of the 1960s contain the most
When Hurricane Hazel struck the city in October 1954, I was a teenager. It was the worst natural disaster the city ever endured. This is the
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the beginning of the second Elizabethan Age. Part One of this series of posts on old Toronto newspapers
Capturing a Toronto winter on canvas is a daunting task. I prefer to sketch directly onto the bare canvas, placing an easel on the
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Capturing Toronto’s Kensington Market in art
The Kensington Market is the subject of the above painting. Entitled, “Early morning—the corner of Kensington Avenue and Baldwin Street—Kensington Market,” it is 20” x
Gazing north on Yonge Street from Queen Street in 1948, acrylic on stretched canvas, 18” x 24”, painted in 1995. Toronto is one of the
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Toronto’s old Allen’s Bloor Theatre (the Bloor, Lee’s Palace)
Site of the Allen Bloor Theatre, with its colourful graffiti art, at 529 Bloor Street West. Photo taken in 2014. On a hot summer afternoon
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Toronto’s old Madison Theatre Part II
The Midtown Theatre c. 1940, photo City of Toronto archives, Series 1278, File 103 When I was a teenager in the 1950s, for two
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Toronto’s Music Hall (Allen’s Danforth)—Part 11
Allen’s Danforth Theatre, now the Music Hall in 2014. When I was a teenager, I lived in the west end of the city