Historicist: The Catalina Kid and the Black Shark
The world’s top marathon swimmers compete at the 1927 CNE.

The world’s top marathon swimmers compete at the 1927 CNE.
Torontonians travel the world—without leaving the city borders.
Anaesthesia comes to Toronto in the mid-19th century.
Young journalist William Lyon Mackenzie King describes the “foreigners who live in Toronto.”
The women who were prepared to defend Toronto in 1915.
Thousands of Torontonians join a protest against fascism in July 1933.
Ace Bailey’s career-ending injury and the origins of the NHL All-Star Game.
Rival medical schools struggle to serve Toronto students.
Toronto struggles to reduce the number of traffic fatalities during the holiday season.
A Toronto park becomes a much-needed veterans’ hospital.
Greek immigrants bring new life to Toronto’s east end.
The 1910 aviation meet and Count Jacques de Lesseps’ flight over Toronto.
Toronto helps the Junction to celebrate the closing of its bars in 1904.
Works displayed in the art gallery at the 1927 CNE caused an uproar.
The lives, love, and letters of Dr. Frieda Fraser and Dr. Edith Bickerton "Bud" Williams.
A team of dentists and dental students reached the peak of the hockey world in 1917.
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