Archive for 'Kevin Plummer'
Rabble-rousing feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman died in Toronto in 1940.
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Kevin Plummer May. 19th, 12:00 pm
That time Jimi Hendrix mistook heroin for Bromo Seltzer and got arrested in Toronto.
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Kevin Plummer May. 5th, 12:00 pm
Frederick Gardiner and Tracy leMay show off the possibilities and problems of their newly created realm: Metro Toronto.
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Kevin Plummer Apr. 21st, 12:00 pm
The double life of Arthur Irwin, baseball star and polygamist.
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Kevin Plummer Apr. 7th, 12:00 pm
Finding Communist "Reds" in the woodwinds and strings.
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Kevin Plummer Mar. 24th, 1:30 pm
An Oshawa native scores the men's world figure skating championship by landing the sport's first triple lutz.
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Kevin Plummer Mar. 10th, 12:00 pm
Beloved by shoppers and blasted by critics, Yorkdale opened 48 years ago this week.
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Kevin Plummer Feb. 25th, 12:00 pm
Struggling writers from the University Of Toronto to the Big Apple.
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Kevin Plummer Feb. 11th, 12:00 pm
From a village in Punjab to the first dedicated Bollywood theatre in North America.
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Kevin Plummer Jan. 28th, 1:00 pm
In 1928, two teams of aboriginal hockey players embarked on a barnstorming tour through Ontario and the northeastern United States.
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Kevin Plummer Jan. 14th, 12:30 pm
For more than 100 years, a modest hotel graced the northeast corner of King and York Streets.
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Kevin Plummer Dec. 31st, 11:00 am
A father-son photography duo captured 80 years of Toronto's history.
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Kevin Plummer Dec. 17th, 12:00 pm
Master of the cartoonist's pen but burdened by inner turmoil, George Feyer is a long-neglected mid-century pop culture figure.
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Kevin Plummer Dec. 3rd, 12:00 pm
Frank Darling and John A. Pearson defined an era in Canadian architecture.
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Kevin Plummer Nov. 19th, 12:00 pm
A renegade Toronto hockey team owner, and the contentious path to the creation of the National Hockey League.
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Kevin Plummer Nov. 5th, 12:00 pm
Canada's first Victoria Cross recipient, Alexander Roberts Dunn, was a native of York, Upper Canada, who fought in the Crimean War and charged with the Light Brigade.
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Kevin Plummer Oct. 22nd, 12:00 pm
The evolving, modernizing waterfront through the lens of Toronto Harbour Commission photographer Arthur Beales
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Kevin Plummer Oct. 8th, 12:00 pm
"We're completely in the dark," a Trans-Canada Air Lines official admitted after thieves took gold bullion from Malton Airport in 1952 in a seemingly perfect and still-unsolved caper.
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Kevin Plummer Sep. 24th, 12:00 pm
The 1949 fire aboard the SS Noronic took 199 lives. As the worst disaster in Toronto's history, the tragedy led to both heroism and a grisly aftermath.
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Kevin Plummer Sep. 10th, 12:00 pm
At the Canadian National Exhibition during the First World War, Torontonians on the home front got a glimpse of the war effort overseas.
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Kevin Plummer Aug. 27th, 12:00 pm