Deeds speak.

Those engines seem quite puny compared to present-day plant power. Still, it was a considerable investment in those days. The mixture of types and manufacturers suggests no consistent buying policy over the previous decade, and a rapid turnover of stationary engineers. Those guys tended to be...

If I recall the contamination resulted from the dumping of wastes from painting luminous paint on aircraft instrument dials in the 1940s.

They met at 51 Yonge St. It was a joint conference of the two associations although most were commercial travellers. They held a dinner attended by Premier Ferguson, and side trips to Niagara Falls and Weston Golf Club.

No transponder discount, I guess.

SS Noronic, your berth is waiting.

August 1984, personal collection, scanned from 35mm slide,

Street sign in photo says Queen St W. I think the architectural plan is for Ossington & Bloor.

The 1907 plan is not an as-built for the actual fire hall. The building next door is the old Ossington Police Station which is now a daycare. I bet it has pretty secure time-out rooms in the basement. I know a retired architect who attended UofT. For his architects degree they made him draw...

We tend to forget just how bad the traffic could be in the city's past. Cars dominated downtown traffic by 1920 and continued to clog the streets afterwards. Traffic surveys in the 1920s and 1930s show that more than 95% of downtown commuters came and went by streetcar, yet the <5% who drove...

In the 1850s the Orange Order used to march slowly and loudly through the Irish Catholic neighbourhoods of Corktown in the hope that the Catholics would start throwing stones. As the 12th of July approached, the Orangemen would let off guns and fireworks in the evening air, while the fife and...

Orange Order loved fifes and drums. To Irish Catholic ears, fifes and drums were 'Protestant music'.

It doesn't look like the 12 July parade. Spectators are not dressed for July, trees lack leaves. Obviously an orange event, but cannot be the 12 July affair.

Reduced to irrelevance: the 2009 Orange Parade in Toronto

The Belfast of Canada.

It would fit in your pocket, as long as you wore the special trousers.

Still has an electric arc light attached to its TELco pole. Its days are numbered though, and in the spring of 1911 it will vanish.

I just checked a York County Gazetteer for 1881. There was no druggist called Powell in Schomberg in 1881 and nobody called E F Walker, either. Do you suppose the drug company is making up these stories of miracle cures?

The Ruskin Debating Society was active in 1904, and possibly at other times. These clubs were rather masculine, and favoured by churches which frowned on alcohol and theatres.

I think the gargoyle drop was in 1921: A gargoyle is removed from City Hall after dropping its jaw through the city hall roof. Photo of the gargoyle being installed 20 years ago. Head weighs 500 lbs. Jaw dropped 100 ft through the attic and almost killed a city hall worker in the Works...