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Vintage Toronto Ads: Be Sure of Your Radiantubes and Thermizers
If this spacious stove were marketed today, what expression would the customer service rep at your friendly neighbourhood big box retailer display if you asked them about the radiantube and thermizer...
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Historicist: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Vice-Principal’s...
Every Saturday morning, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Flipping through your family’s high school...
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Vintage Toronto Ads: Who Are the Educational Trustees in Your Neighbourhood?
With today marking the first day back to school for most students in the city, we take this opportunity to let parents know who runs the institutions that will mould your children into upstanding...
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One Wrong Turn
When some people see an erroneous street sign, they call the city to have it fixed. Others will glance for a moment, pop their eyes, and then move along without a second thought. In the case of a...
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Vintage Toronto Ads: Another Modern, New Dominion
Source: the Telegram, June 5, 1957. Perhaps there was something magnetic in the lighting used at the new Dominion supermarket at Bayview and Eglinton. As if possessed by an alien force, residents of...
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Whatever Happened to Peggy Atwood?
Margaret Atwood’s high school yearbook; Clan Call, 1956–1957 edition. As people continue to joke about Margaret Atwood running for mayor, we feel it is our duty as a responsible media outlet to scope...
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New Indoor Trampoline Centre Brings Some Bounce to Leaside
Toronto's first Sky Zone opens in midtown. If you’re looking for a little bit of bounce after trudging though Toronto’s slushy streets, the new Sky Zone trampoline park, which opened in Leaside over...
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Historicist: The Birth of Leaside
How a railroad planned a community around its expansion plans a century ago.Map of plan for Leaside, the Toronto Star, December 2, 1912. When the provincial government passed a bill incorporating the...
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Historicist: “All Ski Jumpers Are Not Intent on Suicide”
Torontonians tackle the Thorncliffe Ski Jump.The Toronto Telegram. February 12, 1934.Toronto’s many hills and ravines made skiing a popular pastime in the early 20th century. Although most of the local...
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Long Live Mediocrity!
Drivers passing through the south end of Leaside on Millwood Road may have noticed commentary added to a Baxter’s Soup billboard. An anonymous critic with a penchant for exclamation marks has...
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Historicist: The Battle of the Belles
The 1966 East York municipal election saw two female incumbents, Beth Nealson and True Davidson, run for mayor.Beth Nealson and True Davidson. The Toronto Star, October 11, 1966. Always good for a...
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Extra, Extra: More Shelter Ire in Leaside, Pumpkins Plundered, and a Very...
Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not to miss. Photo by Donna Britain from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. A video containing hidden camera footage...
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