Paul Kane’s house at 56 Wellesley Street East, Toronto. Photo taken June 29, 2018. I first learned about the Irish/Canadian artist Paul Kane in the
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Exploring Historic Spadina House and Museum, Toronto
Spadina House at 285 Spadina Road in August 2014. The view gazes northeast toward the west (left-hand) and the south facades. On the south (right-hand)
Amazing story of Yorkdale Plaza (Toronto)
Yorkdale Plaza from the Macdonald-Cartier (401) Highway in 1964, the year the plaza opened. The camera faces southwest toward Eaton’s Yorkdale, on the east side
Toronto’s carousels of the past and present
The Centre Island carousel (merry-go-round) at Centreville in July 1987. Photo from author’s collection. The carousel is one of the few amusement rides that generates
History of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Gazing north on Queen’s Park Crescent in 1930. To the north of the museum is the Park Plaza Hotel. Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 3058.
Toronto’s historic Royal Alexandra Theatre
The Royal Alexander Theatre in August, 1955 , Toronto Public Library, r-4963-1 In the 19th century, King Street was one of the most fashionable residential
Gazing north on Yonge Street from Queen Street in 1948, acrylic on stretched canvas, 18” x 24”, painted in 1995. Toronto is one of the
Houses wrapped in winter on D’Arcy Street in Toronto February is a cruel month, when Toronto becomes locked in frost’s icy grip. However, after
King Street on the afternoon of the day TIFF opened, Thursday, September 5, 2014. The crowds had not yet gathered. King Street gazing west at
The Zip Line at the 2014 CNE, in the background the Food Building and the BMO Stadium. Attending the CNE is an end-of-summer ritual for