Toronto Invents: The Whoopee Cushion
A west-end rubber factory devised a classic practical joke.
Posts Filed Under: 1930s 
Toronto Invents: Table Hockey
How a homemade Great Depression Christmas gift turned into an iconic Canadian game.
Linc at Home in Toronto
Historical Holiday Hints: Carving a Turkey
Looking to the past for tips on how to slice a holiday bird.
A Gardens Gallery
Historicist: A New Home for Coaches
As the Toronto Coach Terminal approaches its 80th anniversary, a look back at its beginning.
Historicist: Extending Church Street
How a traffic-relief plan for a growing city became reality.
Lying in State at Old City Hall
Before Jack Layton, the public mourned two former mayors at our main municipal building.
!["Some of the thousands of citizens who passed through [Old] City Hall today to pay their final respects to Mayor Sam McBride as he lay in state are shown above with a few of the many handsome floral tributes and the solemn procession inside the building." The Telegram, November 16, 1936.](http://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110825mcbrideinstate-200x150.jpg)
