The public opening of the Royal Ontario Museum in March, 1914, was the culmination of almost a century of
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When in Rome, each of us has had the opportunity to look down into the extraordinary area sacra –
The campaigns to save Fort York present a saga of opposing public interests, political vacillation, commercial encroachment, and contextual
Many ordinary people enjoy more than Andy Warhol’s fifteen minutes of fame before resuming their modest lives. James Brock’s
Henry Bowyer Lane (b. Corfu, 1817 – d. Victoria, Australia, 1878) was a trained architect related by marriage to
Q) How long have you known Douglas? A) Since high school in 1974, at Sentinel Senior Secondary in West
It must be serendipity! The one day a week we volunteer in the library at Fort York is the
“There was a battle here, in this place.” It is a point I make every time I do a
Eleven lions left York with the Americans when Commodore Isaac Chauncey’s squadron finally sailed away, days after the 27
For over a hundred and thirty years Fort York has been besieged by the sounds and smells of livestock
By 1979 – with the Guard dressed in its new finery – the question of what to do with
By 1 pm on Tuesday, 27 April 1813, the American force attacking York had victory within its grasp. And
Fort York National Historic Site encompasses 43 acres of structural foundations, earthworks, burials, and a battlefield. The structures built,
The history of the Fort York Guard extends over several decades and through various incarnations. A full narrative could
A wonderful new view of Fort York in the 1840s has been discovered by chance in a school boy’s
The dramatic circumstances of Isaac Brock’s death – shot in the heart as he rushed up a hill occupied
The new high-density residential community emerging between Fort York and Fleet Street will eventually contain approximately 5,000 residential units.
To hear Sir Roger Sheaffe, military and civil commander of Upper Canada, tell the story, his force was vastly
There is strong public support for expanding and improving the network of pedestrian and bicycle paths throughout the City.
For more than a century, running streetcars to the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) has been one of the most
In the Strachan Avenue Military Cemetery at Fort York a weathered gravestone recalls Harriet Isabella Ormsby who died in
I was born in 1939 on Huron Street, below College, near my mother’s family home on Willcocks Avenue, now
When foundations for a new condominium at Bathurst and Fleet Streets were excavated in the Spring of 2006, some
“Who shall say what Toronto may not yet be?” asked one of the city’s newspapers in 1844 as it
The two colours (or flags) of the Third Regiment of York Militia, exhibited at St James’ Cathedral for many
Today, when communications bounce around the world in the bat of an eye, it’s inconceivable that information once took
