Step Forward Into History is the name of this new sculpture of Joshua Glover, a man whose life began
Section: Illustration.
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Gother Mann, 1788, “PLAN of TORENTO HARBOUR with the proposed TOWN and part of the SETTLEMENT.” Coloured manuscript, 13″
“The real amusement of the young people is furnished by the skating rinks,” wrote Mrs. Robinson to her granddaughter
hese two watercolours were painted about 1912 T by the Toronto illustrator Owen Staples (18661949), a close friend and
his delightful water colour shows a bucolic scene of the small provincial capital peeking out of the forest T
This view begins from an easel on the lawn of the dry moat behind the South Soldiers’ Barracks, just
The Toronto Shipbuilding Company yard seen looking northeast from the top of the newly expanded Canada Malting silos on
itled “Entrance to the Port of Toronto,” this delightful watercolour is one of more than 150 works created by
“We then came in sight of the enemy at the other end of a field. We doubled our pace
Fort York’s soldiers, then and now Soldiers built the garrison in 1793, defended it during the War of 1812
Artwork © Lincoln and Welland Regiment Foundation / detail of photo by Lt. Ken Bell, Canadian Army Film &
This painting was swiftly done by George Berthon in the spring of 1846. A present for their mother, he
William Notman’s studio took this photo in 1859 looking south from the tower of what is now University College
Jean Geeson was a teacher, artist and writer who had just moved to Toronto from the Alma Ladies’ College
12 The Fife and Drum even then, but the profits of that development were denied to the Ordnance, preventing
More than 20 years in the making, the new Fife and Drum anthology FORT YORK: Stories from the Birthplace
The forces of King George on August 14, 1814, launched a full-scale night assault on Fort Erie, then occupied
A vintage 1776-pattern smoothbore field gun is fired by a well-rehearsed Fort York Guard gun crew. They’re wearing uniforms
Source: Toronto Museums & Heritage Services Source: Toronto Museums & Heritage Services T his small white projectile point was
In the July issue of this newsletter, The Friends proposed that the future public school in the Fort York
On August 5 a lineup of dignitaries including Mayor John Tory, Councillor Joe Cressy, W. Galen Weston, and his
Courtesty of Ted Smolak. “Driver, To The Front” Fort York guardsman Pierce Cosgrove (l.) and Kevin Hebib, Fort York
With Fort York hosting the Magna Carta and its sylvan sister, the Charter of the Forest, this fall we
From the Gallery: Putting the Shot The Shot Put is one of several Track and Field events in which
From the Gallery: An Exhibit from 1934 when Fort Yet another image in the Gallery section of The Friends’
The number of Native People having a connection to early Fort York who are known by name is exceedingly
This well-known photo of the Queen’s Wharf lighthouse being moved to its present location at Fleet Street and Lakeshore
