Historicist: Early Cinema, Made in Canada
The ambitious but short-lived Conness-Till movie studio in Swansea.
Archive for 'Kevin Plummer' 
Historicist: Blind Faith
Renowned evangelist Charles B. Templeton finds, and loses, religion.
Historicist: Now That April’s Here
An "over-praised and over-attacked" movie filmed in Toronto in 1958.
Historicist: Sidney Furie and A Dangerous Age
A young Canadian filmmaker's doomed ambition to make a movie in Toronto.
Historicist: “The long arc of history bends towards justice”
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at Forest Hill's Holy Blossom Temple in March 1962.
Historicist: Ascending the Nile
Frederick Denison leads Canadians into battle with Mahdist Sudan in 1884.
Beer Built This City
A review of Jordan St. John's Lost Breweries of Toronto.
Historicist: Third World Books and Crafts
Leonard and Gwendolyn Johnston's venerable black-culture bookstore.
Historicist: “An Exceptional Man”
Hollywood actor Sterling Hayden gets busted for hashish at Toronto International Airport.
Historicist: Steele’s Tavern and the Rise of Gordon Lightfoot
A Yonge Street institution gives rise to a generation of budding folk stars.
Historicist: The Mushing Mothers’ Adventure
Two intrepid northern Ontario women mush dog sleighs over 1,000 km to Toronto.
Historicist: Torn Between the Synagogue and the Concert Hall
The Toronto connections of Joseph Shlisky, one of the world's greatest cantors.
Historicist: An Authentic Viking Hoax
Historicist: Toronto’s First Firefighter Fatality
Volunteer fireman William Thornton is fatally injured in a November 1848 blaze.
Historicist: Space-Age Living, Ahead of its Time
Architect Uno Prii's beloved, and despised, apartment buildings.
Historicist: “She certainly doesn’t play like a girl”
The star defenceman of a boys hockey team is revealed to be a nine-year-old girl.
Historicist: The Great Fire of 1922
Toronto's peculiar, innovative relief efforts for the catastrophic fire in the Temiskaming District.
Historicist: The Toronto Eighteen
In 1911, a group of prominent Liberal businessmen from Toronto take on the prime minister—and win.
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