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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

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