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Archive for 'Kevin Plummer'

Historicist: Empire State of Mind

Struggling writers from the University Of Toronto to the Big Apple.

By Kevin Plummer

Photo of Fifth Avenue on Sunday, New York City, 1898, from the {a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?801628"}NYPL Digital Gallery{/a}.

Historicist: Nights Out At The Naaz Theatre

From a village in Punjab to the first dedicated Bollywood theatre in North America.

By Kevin Plummer

The Naaz Theatre, 1430 Gerrard Street East, 1981, from the Toronto Public Library.
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Historicist: The Cree & Ojibway Indian Hockey Tour

In 1928, two teams of aboriginal hockey players embarked on a barnstorming tour through Ontario and the northeastern United States.

By Kevin Plummer

Cree and Ojibway hockey teams, 11 January 1928, from City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 5619.
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Historicist: “The Warmest Welcome, At An Inn”

For more than 100 years, a modest hotel graced the northeast corner of King and York Streets.

By Kevin Plummer

Shakespeare Hotel, c. 1865, from {a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shakespeare_Hotel,_northeast_corner_of_King_and_York_streets.jpg"}WikiMedia Commons{/a} (Originally from the {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/torontohistory/4504689658/"}City of Toronto Archives{/a}).
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Historicist: The Two John Boyds

A father-son photography duo captured 80 years of Toronto's history.

By Kevin Plummer

Freezing rain with cars parked on the street, ca. 1925, by John Boyd Sr., from {a href="http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=000003194988"}Library and Archives Canada{/a} (PA-104956).
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Historicist: Armed with a Felt Pen and a Sense of Humour

Master of the cartoonist's pen but burdened by inner turmoil, George Feyer is a long-neglected mid-century pop culture figure.

By Kevin Plummer

Photo of George Feyer on CBC's {em}Razzle Dazzle{/em}, 1961, by Albert Crookshank, CBC Still Photo Collection.

Historicist: The Lasting Legacy of Darling and Pearson

Frank Darling and John A. Pearson defined an era in Canadian architecture.

By Kevin Plummer

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Historicist: Arch Enemy of the NHL

A renegade Toronto hockey team owner, and the contentious path to the creation of the National Hockey League.

By Kevin Plummer

Photo of a typical Ontario Hockey team, 1915, by George Irwin, from Provincial Archives of Ontario (C 119-1-0-0-42).
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Historicist: Storm’d At With Shot and Shell

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.

By Kevin Plummer

Richard Caton Woodville's {em}Relief of the Light Brigade{/em}, 1897, from {a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Relief_of_the_Light_Brigade.png"}Wikimedia Commons{/a}.
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Historicist: On the Waterfront

The evolving, modernizing waterfront through the lens of Toronto Harbour Commission photographer Arthur Beales

By Kevin Plummer

Arthur Beales with photography equipment set up near Ship Channel, looking northwest to city skyline, October 2, 1914, by Beales' assistant. Toronto Port Authority Archives, PC 1/1/135.
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Historicist: A Perfect Crime, Forgotten

"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.

By Kevin Plummer

Globe and Mail of September 26, 1952.
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Historicist: Queen of the Great Lakes Aflame

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.

By Kevin Plummer

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Historicist: Patriotic Fervour at the CNE

At the Canadian National Exhibition during the First World War, Torontonians on the home front got a glimpse of the war effort overseas.

By Kevin Plummer

CNE Midway, 1914. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 877.
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Historicist: Hailey’s Comet

Arthur Hailey's 1950s teleplay Flight Into Danger, which inspired the film Airplane!, was one of the “most gripping, tension-packed” plays of its time

By Kevin Plummer

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Historicist: “Life Could be a Dream, Sweetheart”

By Kevin Plummer

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Historicist: Citizenship and Character

By Kevin Plummer

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Historicist: Centre Stage in the Cold War

By Kevin Plummer

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Historicist: The Onondaga Wonder

By Kevin Plummer

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Historicist: Marshall McLuhan, Urban Activist

By Kevin Plummer

Stanley Barracks, From Red Coats to Squatters

By Kevin Plummer