Courtesy of Don Loucks Lynda Macdonald, OALA, OPPI, RCIP, Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District, has retired
Topic: Toronto Historical Board
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These charming Queen’s Rangers are in a set of three watercolours commissioned by their commander, John Graves Simcoe, just
To mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation this year, the editors invited one of the guard who marched
I met Brigadier John McGinnis for the first time in the 1960s when I was the Curator at Black
For more than forty years George Waters made history at Fort York, first as a uniformed interpreter, for some
Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915) is remembered for accomplishments of sweeping scope and magnitude. His work as a surveyor laid
The Friends of Fort York congratulate Carl Benn on his appointment as Chair of the Department of History at
I was born in 1939 on Huron Street, below College, near my mother’s family home on Willcocks Avenue, now
by Carl Benn, PhD, Chief Curator, City of Toronto Museums and Heritage Services Much of our understanding of Fort
It was April of 1969 and the Officers’ Quarters at Fort York was scheduled to open to the public
When you carry the name of a famous Scottish hero, and the Earl of Lauderdale is a distant cousin,
