Historicist: Early Cinema, Made in Canada
The ambitious but short-lived Conness-Till movie studio in Swansea.

The ambitious but short-lived Conness-Till movie studio in Swansea.
Renowned evangelist Charles B. Templeton finds, and loses, religion.
An "over-praised and over-attacked" movie filmed in Toronto in 1958.
A young Canadian filmmaker's doomed ambition to make a movie in Toronto.
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at Forest Hill's Holy Blossom Temple in March 1962.
Frederick Denison leads Canadians into battle with Mahdist Sudan in 1884.
A review of Jordan St. John's Lost Breweries of Toronto.
Leonard and Gwendolyn Johnston's venerable black-culture bookstore.
Hollywood actor Sterling Hayden gets busted for hashish at Toronto International Airport.
A Yonge Street institution gives rise to a generation of budding folk stars.
Two intrepid northern Ontario women mush dog sleighs over 1,000 km to Toronto.
The Toronto connections of Joseph Shlisky, one of the world's greatest cantors.
Volunteer fireman William Thornton is fatally injured in a November 1848 blaze.
Architect Uno Prii's beloved, and despised, apartment buildings.
The star defenceman of a boys hockey team is revealed to be a nine-year-old girl.
Toronto's peculiar, innovative relief efforts for the catastrophic fire in the Temiskaming District.
In 1911, a group of prominent Liberal businessmen from Toronto take on the prime minister—and win.
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