Amidst the shells bursting asunder above their heads, with dark smoke choking the air and shot striking the ground
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The North American Hotel was a big four-storey building on Front Street, at Scott, built in the 1830s by
“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
itled “Entrance to the Port of Toronto,” this delightful watercolour is one of more than 150 works created by
A small merchant schooner of the 1830s on the Great Lakes clears heavy weather slightly the worse for wear.
12 The Fife and Drum even then, but the profits of that development were denied to the Ordnance, preventing
This article will outline British and Canadian strategy, developed in the decade following the War of 1812, to deter
The earliest view of the capital of Upper Canada following the War of 1812 is Robert Irvine’s grand oil
From 1794 until 1863 today’s Victoria Memorial Square, just east of Fort York, was the cemetery for the garrison.
While the Dictionary of Canadian Biography described Thomas J. Sutherland (1801-1852) as a “Patriot filibuster and author” http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/sutherland_thomas_jefferson_8E.html, his
The first Fort York, built by John Graves Simcoe in 1793, had mostly been demolished by the end of
More than four years ago Chris Laverton wrote a short biography of Captain Henry Evatt for The Fife and
In the July issue of this newsletter, The Friends proposed that the future public school in the Fort York
Between 1802 and 1837 Gustavus Nicolls of the Royal Engineers served twenty-seven years over three tours of duty in
The murder of John Paul Radelmüller is one of Toronto’s oldest mysteries and the city’s most enduring ghost story.
As part of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Fort York National Historic Site will have the privilege of playing host to
The first Toronto Athletic Games were held, beginning on 11 September 1839, under the sponsorship of prominent Toronto citizens
From the Gallery: Putting the Shot The Shot Put is one of several Track and Field events in which
One hundred and seventy years ago, in May 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin led a Royal Navy expedition of
Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, settled five years apart, share some early connections. Their founders, Governors Arthur Phillip and John
The number of Native People having a connection to early Fort York who are known by name is exceedingly
Mail: 260 Adelaide St. E., Box 183, Toronto, M5A 1N1 e-mail: info@fortyork.ca website: www.fortyork.ca The Fife and Drum 7
Soldiers had fewer recreational options. Drinking was a key activity– in barracks and canteens within the garrisons, and at
John R. Grodzinski. Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and 1812. Foreword by the War of Donald E. Graves.
To illustrate, a recent opportunity to acquire an important oil portrait of Frances Battersby at a Toronto auction house
