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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tomorrow! GHOST STORIES OF TORONTO continues with a talk filled with tales of haunted Victorian houses. It's free! At noon! On Zoom! All thanks to the Toronto Public Library! tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here's an interesting trans history in Toronto find! A Toronto Telegram article from August 1970 with trans sex worker Lily St. Clair! Previously a female impersonator, she is described as having bottom surgery 8 months prior to the article. She performed at the Westover Hotel at 212 Dundas St E.

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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Did you know that election night - municipal, provincial, or federal - used to be party night for the entire family in Toronto? Join me on October 22 at Mackenzie House Museum, where we'll look at how Torontonians celebrated casting their ballots! #TOpoli www.toronto.ca/explore-enjo...

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Toronto Archives @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca · 07/10/2026

You get an expressway, and you get an expressway, and YOU get an expressway! In 1943 the Toronto Planning Board foresaw not only the Gardiner and the 401, but also superhighways along Bloor Street, Queen, Christie/Strachan and Coxwell. ow.ly/7CW450ZOrXG

A fold-out map showing the former City of Toronto in 1943. Parts of the map are coloured to represent different zoning areas. The map is criss-crossed by thick black lines representing superhighways. Series 40, File 221.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The thing is I know I have a lot to offer a prospective employer. Knowledge, skills, a gift for analyzing maps and finding stuff out. But it’s just awful putting oneself out there and hearing absolutely nothing.

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography @dcb-dbc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is #WomensHistoryMonth! Peggy (fl. 1766–1827) was one of the hundreds of Black people enslaved in Upper Canada. She and her three children were held in bondage on Peter Russell’s estate and farm. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/peggy...

Historical newspaper advertisement from 1806 offering an enslaved Black woman - Peggy - for sale, describing her age, child, domestic skills, health, price and payment terms, and naming the seller as Peter Russell.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

Had to walk by the Cloud Gardens today, 4 months later & 4 months before "late 2026" passes No visible change since spring, other than more trash in the fountain & taller weeds growing up through the cracks

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wab Kinew: “It takes strength to be able to look in the mirror.”

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One hang up I have about queer Canadian history is how the 1969 partial decriminalization is discussed. It is often discussed how 1969 didn't really decriminalize homosexuality but my issue is how the bravery of Everett George Klippert is so often erased from the story.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is SO MUCH CRYING in baseball

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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a child of a survivor of these hellish places called residential school, I can tell you with everything in me that the children who survived told the truth. Everything they said and what they didn't say, happened. We lived with the shell of the humans who came back. We know what they experienced.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saying goodbye from the nose bleeds

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The elixir to civic cynicism is the Word on the Street festival. 1000s of book people & some celebrities. Runs till 5 or so. Come on down.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm at Word On The Street this morning! I'll be hosting a little panel about Toronto history with Lorna Poplak & Barbara Dickson. 10:30am at the Neighbourhood Stage!

The Word on the Street. David Pecault Square. September 26-27. 11-6pm Saturday. 10-5pm Sunday. 215 King St W Toronto.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

today in Stop Romanticizing Canada: Quebec’s Bill 9 has just taken effect, barring women in veils from receiving public services. Public employees include university faculty, so professors have been instructed to require veiled women to uncover their faces or be removed from the classroom.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Leaside Heritage Preservation Society is presenting a special historical talk & social at the Amsterdam Brewhall, and you're invited! 😃 🗓️ Sunday, September 27 🕔 2pm -5pm 📍 45 Esandar Drive - Leaside, Toronto 🎟️ FREE #leaside #presentation #torontohistory #torontoevents #jeremyhopkin

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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“How does it feel to celebrate with everyone?” “I AM JAPANEESSSEEE!!!” Ode to Munenori Kawasaki by Munetaka Murakami #WhiteSox

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the experience all historians have in front of the classroom where you say the thing you always say, have been saying for years, and all of a sudden, it takes on new meaning

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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my periodic friendly reminders of just some of the research, fact-checking, and writing services I offer for those of you with historical needs...

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Friday! SPIES OF TORONTO is back by popular demand — a walking tour filled with stories of espionage, traitors & secret agents. Just meet in St. James Park at 7pm. Pay what you like!

Spies of Toronto: A Walking Tour. Explore true tales of espionage, traitors and secret agents with author Adam Bunch. Friday, September 25 at 7 PM. Meet in St. James Park (by the pavilion). We'll end at City Hall around 9 or 9:30 PM. Pay what you like.

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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes I pull a record and get lost in the details for a good 15 minutes. Here’s today’s - Marina Quay West (Spadina Pier) mid-1980s: 7078.sydneyplus.com/archive/fina... #Toronto

Black and white oblique aerial looking northeast, showing construction around a triangular marina on the Toronto waterfront. The CN tower is prominent among a skyline with few towers.

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Contact me for an in-person or online presentation in the Greater Toronto Area. My topics include gangsters, wrongful convictions, a murderous Mountie, war crimes, bank robbers, scams and hoaxes. Libraries, historical societies, senior homes, etc. natehendley.ca/presentations/

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Presentations

I offer online and in-person presentations. I am available to speak at libraries, schools, bookstores, etc., anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). My presentations are all roughly one hour in…

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My new online lecture series/course begins Wednesday night! It's filled with stories of Toronto's weirdest deaths...

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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

19th Century anti-Canada lies/propaganda as told by American slave masters: 1) You have to give half your wages to the Queen. 2) Ground is always covered in ice, nothing can be grown. 3) Geese will scratch your eyes out. (Farrell 1955)

THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO COMMUNITY IN CHATHAM, ONTARIO

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'After we began to hear about Canada', said M.J. Lindsay, "our master used to tell us all manner of stories about what a dreadful place it was;
and we believed some of them, we didn't. When they told us that we must pay half our wages to the Queen, every day, it didn't seem strange to us nor wrong; but when they said it was so cold there that men going mowing had to break the ice with their scythes, I didn't believe that, because it was onreasonable (sic). I knew grass wouldn't grow where ice was all the time.' 'I was old before I left Virginia', said Dan Fackart, 'I have heard it as common talk that the wild geese were so common in Canada, that they would scratch a man's eyes out; that corn wouldn't grow there, nor anything but rice; that everything they had there was imported'........82

As Dr. S.G. Howe puts it, "Nothing invited the Negroes to this
cold region, except the still, small voice of freedom."

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hooray! Late architect Robert Hill's incredible Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 is back online thanks to a recovery. I think Robert would be happy that his decades of work have been preserved. canadianarchitects.org/about/

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The Recovery — Dictionary of Architects in Canada

How the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada was recovered from the Internet Archive.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This Friday! GHOST STORIES OF TORONTO begins! It's on Zoom at noon and it's free — the first talk in my lunchtime lectures series with the Toronto Public Library, diving into the history of ghost stories in our city. More details & free registration here: tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...

A photo from the City of Toronto Archives taking around 1908. Two men and a boy sitting at little table playing cards look up at the figure of a ghost — which you may or may not believe is actually a superimposed image of someone standing there under a sheet.

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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I took these before and after shots mere days apart in October 2024. Ontario Place West Island ripped down in the night, and this is how it still looks today.

Two images side by side, one with a shoreline lined with trees. Below, the same shoreline completely devoid of trees.

Two images side by side, one with a shoreline lined with trees. Below, the same shoreline completely devoid of trees and an excavator moving over a pile of dirt.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Lilian Radovac @lilianradovac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you’re in Toronto this evening, go see this documentary about the demise of 888 Dupont and the fate of artists’ spaces across the city. It’s screening at the Paradise Theatre. www.cbc.ca/arts/thats-n...

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‘That’s not the Toronto that was sold to me’ | CBC Arts

Adam Labadie’s debut short, This May Be A Huge Mistake, documents the end of 888 Dupont, one of the city's last artist havens. It's screening as part of the Toronto Independent Film Festival.

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm part of the Good Mourning Festival at Evergreen Brick Works on October 24th: www.adrianna-prosser.com/2026/09/16/e... Find my AMA Death Doula Booth and let's talk death, dying, grief, and bereavement with warm curiosity 🤍 💀

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yesterday marked 141 years since #Jumbo the Elephant was struck & killed by a passing freight train in St. Thomas. We talked about the elephant’s tragic & exploited life for this week’s #CBC #HiddenHistory of #swont: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In 1956, a predator stalked Toronto's children. Police arrested an innocent 14-year-old boy, leaving the real killer at large. My true-crime e-book/audiobook: Apple tinyurl.com/5xfn35zz Amazon tinyurl.com/3fbnkeny Indigo (Kobo) tinyurl.com/2vsr6kbf @dundurnpress.bsky.social

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‎The Boy on the Bicycle

‎Nonfiction · 2021

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Muddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Okay, it was the Junior World Series, but it still counts. DM Fox, author of Howleyites, joins us to talk about one of the best baseball seasons in minor league history on Muddy York, Toronto's #1 history podcast. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Onbpkhp2r6b

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How Toronto Won the World Series in 1926 w/DM Fox by Muddy York: A Toronto History Podcast

Okay, it was the Junior World Series, but it still counts.In 1926, the Toronto Maple Leafs (they got the name first) went 109-57, winning the pennant by 8 games before sweeping the Louisville Colonels...

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

See you tonight for the Women, Walking launch in Toronto! Remarks from the editors, Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow, will begin at 7:30 PM.

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Bob Georgiou @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently someone was sent to jail 137(!) times in 1857 in Toronto. (The Globe, January 16, 1858)

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Frances Marie Jefferson was a Canadian trans woman that was arrested in Buffalo for a hit and run in May 1954 and was awaiting a deportation trial. She was housed in a women's prison.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Next Sunday! A new walking tour! Explore the history behind the statues of Queen's Park — with tales of murder, invasion, revolution & how that history gets told. Pay what you like!

The Statues of Queen's Park — A Walking Tour. Explore the, uh, complicated history behind Toronto's monuments with author Adam Bunch. Sunday, September 20 at 3pm. Meet by Queen Victoria's Statue (just east of the legislature's main entrance). Pay what you like!

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D.M. Fox @dmfox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

100 years ago today, there was joy not just in Toronto over the Leafs clinching the International League pennant, but around the league itself because Toronto had ended Baltimore’s seven-year reign. The Leafs were headed to the Little World Series.

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Minor Leaguer @minorleaguer.ca · 13/09/2026

I think that was the Blue Jays' first back-to-back-to-back since Colby Rasmus, Jose Bautista, and Edwin Encarnacion on June 19, 2012.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

An astonishing story of hidden-not-lost priceless jewels sitting in a Quebec City safety deposit box and only 2 people had the secret.

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West End Phoenix @westendphoenix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

RIP to one of the West End's greatest athletes, five time Canadian heavyweight champ George Chuvalo. Here is a story from our May 2019 issue featuring George, his son Mitch and a strip mall karaoke bar in the Junction. www.westendphoenix.com/stories/live...

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LIVE, TONIGHT: GEORGE CHUVALO! — West End Phoenix

Once a week, Mitch Chuvalo takes his dad, the five-time Canadian heavyweight champ, to the Pegasus, an unassuming Junction bar in a strip mall, to sing the oldies he loves and to take their best stab ...

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