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Turning The Great Lakes' Biggest Wetland Into The Port Lands 15 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
Mostly I'm posting this because Wikipedia has an entire category of photos called "Dredges In Toronto" which I happened to stumble upon. Dredges are the crane-like things people use to dig up the bott...
Simcoe's Vision for Toronto: A City So Awesome It Would Undo the American Revolution 6 Aug 2013 | 02:40 pm
1791. Just ten years earlier, John Graves Simcoe had been fighting on the British side of the American Revolution. He made a name for himself in that bloody war: the unit he commanded never lost a bat...
A Junkyard Flying Saucer, 1964 1 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
We're in a junkyard in Downsview in 1964. It's the Golden Age of science fiction. Flying saucers are all the rage. In fact, just a few years before this photo was taken, AVRO was building and testing ...
A National Guerrilla Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn 19 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
National Register of Historic Places, 2013 Additions An article from Hyperallergic alerted me to a neat guerrilla history project in Brooklyn. In some ways, it's kinda like a much better version of m...
A Bird's-Eye Tour of Toronto in the Early 1930s 9 Jul 2013 | 08:47 am
The late 1920s and early 1930s were an important time in the building of Toronto. Many of the city's most beautiful landmarks opened in those few years: everything from Maple Leaf Gardens to Union Sta...
A Stamp for Toronto from 1967 4 Jul 2013 | 11:42 pm
1967. A very big year for Canada. The Centennial Year, celebrating a century since Confederation. Expo in Montreal. Toronto's first modernist skyscrapers rising above the city. Yorkville in the Summer...
A 500 Year-Old Woodpecker Pipe & A Wyandot Story To Go Along With It 3 Jul 2013 | 01:50 am
Wendat woodpecker effigy, early 1500s There's a neat site called The Toronto Museum Project, which is a way of sharing some of the city's historical artifacts online. They've got a page for 100 artif...
Introducing The Toronto Historical Jukebox 14 Jun 2013 | 12:07 am
For the last few months I've been hard at work on a new project, combining two of my favourite things: our city's history and our city's music. It's called the Toronto Historical Jukebox and I'm final...
A Brief History of the Pigeons of Toronto 12 Jun 2013 | 12:10 am
Davenport & Caledonia Pigeons have been living with people for literally as long as anyone can remember. They were one of the first animals we ever domesticated — sometime back in the days of prehist...
A Trip to the Scarborough Bluffs 30 May 2013 | 02:38 am
I spent my Victoria Day out in Scarborough, walking along the bluffs. It was the first time I'd really taken the time to explore out there (I'd been to one outlook a few years ago, but that's all). An...
