Category: historic Toronto

Houses on Bellevue Avenue in Kensington Market, the Toronto Western Hospital in the background          acrylic on stretched canvas, 8 ‘ by 10”   Bellevue

The Kensington Market is magical at Christmas time, the colourful fruits and festive products of the season spilling over onto the sidewalk stalls. Shoppers crowd

“The Reluctant Virgin,” is the second book of the Toronto Trilogy. The chilling murder/mystery is set in Toronto during the 1950s. A sadistic killer, who

Being a teenager in 1956, I purchased a Kodak Pony 35mm camera for the enormous price of $40, and at Christmas journeyed to Yonge Street

The passage below is from the book “The Villages Within,” nominated for the 2011 Toronto Heritage Awards. This section of the book tells about the

Darkness is folding over the Humber River Valley as a young woman strolls the Humber Valley. She is unaware that she is being stalked. After

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 Was

    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