Category: local history Toronto

Whenever I walk past the two-storey bus terminal at 610 Bay Street, a short distance north of Dundas Street West, I recall two travel adventures

When I was a child in the 1940s, for obvious reasons, no one referred to Toronto streetcars as “red-rockets. However, despite their sedate speed, our

The postage stamp seen above was issued by Canada Post in 1949 to commemorate the entry of Newfoundland into the Canadian Confederation. My father was

                                  On 31 December 2012, when the ten-second count-down began prior to midnight, the CN Tower flashed ten consecutive beams of bright light that shot

Although we did not have a white Christmas, we will likely have a white New Year’s in Toronto. Somehow, it does not have quite the

     As I watch the fireworks on New Year’s Eve, I am more acutely aware of the passage of time than on my birthdays. One

In our house on Lauder Avenue, on New Year’s Eve in 1945, as my family awaited the midnight hour, my brother and I played the