I recently attended a service in Mount Pleasant Cemetery to honour the memory of those members of the Salvation Army who perished when the Canadian
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“One must look west from University Avenue on Queen Street to capture the visual flavour of old downtown.” —M. Kluchner, Toronto the Way It Was
Visiting Fort York Today I walked among the oldest surviving buildings in our city. The fort was destroyed during the American invasion of York in
When I was a child, we referred to Victoria Day as “Fire-Cracker Day.” There were few public displays of fireworks, and even if there
Painting of the Moon Bean Coffee Company at St. 30 Andrew Street, Kensington Market (Acrylic on stretched canvas, 16’ x 20”) Moon Bean
I have added another post on these historic buildings because this week I was able to photograph the foundations of one of the building. The
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Atelier Cafe Lounge in the Gurney Stove Foundry at King and Brant streets.
Today I had lunch at Atelier Cafe Lounge on King Street West, located within the building that once housed the nineteenth-century Gurney Stove Foundry.
April of 2011 marks the 98th anniversary of the battle of York, during the War of 1812. This post contains the tongue-in-cheek section from the
This post contains a section from the book “The Villages Within.” It is a tongue-in cheek version of the founding of Toronto. Those
Discovering the Kensington Market, a Village Within the city! This post examines two Victorian “Bay and Gable” houses on Wales Avenue.