Category: historic Toronto

                      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 veterans of the Second World War are diminishing in numbers, are are those who remember the day the war ended. When victory in Europe

“The Villages Within,” nominated for the 2011 Toronto Heritage Awards, is an unabashed promotion of the merits of Toronto. Its cover depicts a 1920s photograph

  On November 6, 2011, Remembrance Sunday throughout Canada, the congregation at Metropolitan United on Queen Street East, awaited the arrival of the members of

Being in the Algarve in the south of Portugal during the latter days of October, the scene that presents itself is vastly different to Toronto.

  The following Halloween story is contained in the novel “Arse Over Teakettle,” a tale about a young boy growing up in post-war Toronto in

          The following passage is from the book “Arse Over Teakettle,” which tells the story of a young boy named Tom Hudson, and his escapades