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“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

                      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