A photo taken in 1926 looking north from the waterfront towards Fort York, very similar to one in Mike
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The Toronto Shipbuilding Company yard seen looking northeast from the top of the newly expanded Canada Malting silos on
William Notman’s studio took this photo in 1859 looking south from the tower of what is now University College
March Break Family Drop-in March 11 to 17, 10 am to 4 pm Bring your family down to Fort
REVIEW David Campbell, It Can’t Last Forever: The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War
St. John the Evangelist Church was for many years an important spiritual and military establishment in Toronto. First established
The inquiry that led to the image on the cover of July’s The Fife and Drum began with a
After kicking off the first half of 2017 with an extremely busy calendar of events and programs, including Vimy
To mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation this year, the editors invited one of the guard who marched
The portrait of the Rev. John Strachan in our December issue appeared in reverse by mistake. But the upside
The first Fort York, built by John Graves Simcoe in 1793, had mostly been demolished by the end of
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
This article is an abbreviated version of the original, published in 2005 on the website of the Wellington Place
Her Majesty’s Army and Navy Veterans’ Association (sometimes Society), formed in Toronto in August 1887, and incorporated in 1888,
Visitors to Fort York for Doors Open on 28 May lucked out in being able to attend Artillery Day
Between 1905 and 1909 it wasn’t a foreign invasion but an internal attack that threatened the very existence of
The murder of John Paul Radelmüller is one of Toronto’s oldest mysteries and the city’s most enduring ghost story.
The declaration of war in early August 1914 was not a surprise to Torontonians. The newspapers had warned of
With Fort York hosting the Magna Carta and its sylvan sister, the Charter of the Forest, this fall we
I met Brigadier John McGinnis for the first time in the 1960s when I was the Curator at Black
“A giant causeway, edged with huge square blocks and an immense railing leads up to a massive building with
From the Gallery: An Exhibit from 1934 when Fort Yet another image in the Gallery section of The Friends’
Construction of the new Visitor Centre has attracted much public attention in the last two years but another major
Under these layers of archaeological evidence, a deeply buried dark soil was preserved. This soil essentially represents the surface
Fort York’s interpretive emphasis has traditionally focused on the period starting with John Graves Simcoe’s arrival in 1793 to
John Boyd (1865-1941) was an amateur photographer who had the good fortune to work at a job that allowed
This well-known photo of the Queen’s Wharf lighthouse being moved to its present location at Fleet Street and Lakeshore
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