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The multi-phase restoration of Coronation Park, on the waterfront south of Fort York, was finished early this summer. It’s
n Saturday, February 29, Fort York and the Ontario Black History Society hosted Exploring Our Culinary Roots, a half-day
Fort York’s Historic Foodways program Hungry for Comfort, offered as part of Winterlicious, happened on February 9. This year,
The new Manager of Fort York National Historic Site is Kaitlin Wainwright, formerly the Director of Programming at Heritage
o fewer than four rental towers are rising at the west end of Garrison Common while a fifth, built
After at least a decade of wishing, discussing, planning, cancelling, reviving, designing and building, Garrison Crossing is open. On
New fifes in the field Our fifes and drums, in the uniforms of the Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry,
Well informed readers of our summer issue will have noticed two (at least) errors of the editor worth correcting.
artifacts to put the commemoration into context. On the day of the invasion – June 6 – program officers
Plans for the complex five-acre site adjacent to Fort York on the north side of the rail lines –
All true connoisseurs of ice cream in this city know that the Ginger Ice Cream, lovingly prepared by the
The mystery mulled over in the last F&D has been solved: it is indeed renovation going on beneath those
These charming Queen’s Rangers are in a set of three watercolours commissioned by their commander, John Graves Simcoe, just
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A century after the armistice of the First World War, a small group gathered to rededicate Coronation Park on
Text: Bob Kennedy. April 2019. Map source: City of Toronto 1 Ordnance Triangle (Garrison Point): Five towers are rising,
Robert W. Bell is the new ED of the Fort York Foundation, the fundraising sibling of The Friends of
The myriad foodways of Black communities in Canada were the focus of this year’s Hungry for Comfort, the annual
20th Annual Doors Open Toronto Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26, 10 am to 5 pm Make sure
The book launch of our own collection of stories on November 1 was blessed with brief speeches, plentiful refreshments,
A note on heritage restoration It was brought to our attention that the opening of the article “Fort York’s
Victoria Memorial Square is the site of Toronto’s first military burial ground. Set aside by Lieutenant Governor Simcoe in
Lieutenant-Colonel James Stocker, a Torontonian who has risen up through the ranks of the regiment, is the new CO
Praised around the world for its dramatic conception and brilliant design, the Fort York Visitor Centre has been acknowledged
Parks Canada wants your opinion on a new draft plan for the Niagara National Historic Sites, which they describe
Already a reliable source of Toronto’s finest historical baking – we mean those fresh and authentic butter tarts, brownies
J ohn Hammond, Sherry Murphy (both seen above with Trinity-Spadina MPP Han Dong) and Ellen Johnstone, historic cooks in
MAY newsletter, become a member, donate or browse our historical image gallery. rhk@sympatico.ca tedsmolak.design Quance, Chris Henry
Bentway building summer ith the closure of the first phase of the skating trail in early March, new plantings
