Toronto: The Way We WereFor decades Toronto historian Mike Filey has regaled readers with stories of the city's past through its landmarks, neighbourhoods, streetscapes, social customs, pleasure palaces, politics, sporting events, celebrities, and defining moments. Now, in one lavishly illustrated volume, he serves up the best of his meditations on everything from the Royal York Hotel, the Flatiron Building, and the Necropolis to Massey Hall, the Palais Royale, and the Canadian National Exhibition, with streetcar jaunts through Cabbagetown, the Annex, Rosedale, and Little Italy and trips down memory lane with Mary Pickford, Glenn Miller, Bob Hope, and Ed Mirvish. Filey recounts in vivid detail the devastation of city disasters such as Hurricane Hazel and the Great Fire of 1904 and spins yarns about doughnut shops old and new, milk deliveries by horse, swimming at Lake Ontarios beaches, Sunday blue laws, and how both World Wars affected Torontonians. |
Contents
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9 | 29 |
The CNE That Was | 34 |
On the Beat Since 1834 | 40 |
History of Improvement | 46 |
Mayor Fosters Care | 52 |
Child Full of Grace | 129 |
Milestones in Medicine | 137 |
Across the Bay | 158 |
Airport Was Slow to Fly | 165 |
Balloil or Balliol? | 171 |
TORONTO AT PLAY | 177 |
TORONTO STREETSCAPES | 185 |
TORONTO NEIGHBOURHOODS | 201 |
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TORONTO AT WORK | 79 |
TORONTO AND DISASTER | 97 |
Torontos Tower of Power | 110 |
Save the Roundhouse | 116 |
A House Like No Other | 122 |
Torontos Other Main Street | 208 |
TORONTO FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED | 221 |
Marilyn Buoyed Our Hearts | 228 |
Image Captions for Part Titles | 241 |