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Adam Bunch

@adambunch.bsky.social

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Exploring the history of Toronto/Canada. Author: The Toronto Book of the Dead & Toronto Book of Love. Host of Canadiana. Prof at George Brown. Creator: Toronto Time Traveller newsletter, The Festival of Bizarre Toronto History & The Toronto Dreams Project

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 6h

Soul-crushing BABIP

Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 8h

A little Canada in the American League Championship Series

Fans wave their rally towels at the end of the national anthem, the SkyDome bathed in re

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Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon @nhenrydixon.bsky.social · 1d

What did the everydayness of racial chattel slavery look like in Upper Canada beyond enslaving? I explore this question in my talk. Join us on Oct. 15th!

Register here: www.thecounty.ca/residents/se...

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 1d

The Toronto & North York Hunt’s annual Thanksgiving parade in Creemore.

They no longer actually hunt, but have roots going back to the big Toronto fox hunting club of the 1840s.

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 2d

From the Hudson’s Bay Company Collection — now being sold after HBC’s bankruptcy.

I feel we should ask City of Toronto or the Toronto Public Library, or the AGO to acquire this painting and keep it public within the city it depicts.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 2d

The world’s longest rainbow path. The 600 metre “Long Walk to Equality” by artist Travis Myers at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island … the location of Canada’s first Pride in 1971.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 7d

Feels like a good time to reshare this oral history of the SkyDome. It’s probably the thing I’m proudest about. I’d love if you read and share: amp.tvo.org/article/it-w...

“It works, Toronto!”: An oral history of the SkyDome | TVO Today

A World Series win. The first Raptors home game. The city’s landmark stadium has played host to memorable events in the last 30 years — but getting it built was a story in itself.

amp.tvo.org

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 3d

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 4d

216 outs left to go

Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 5d

The last out on Sunday.

243 left to go.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 4d

Ready for the ALCS

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

"The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in are not opposed to the mine, but they want to ensure it is carried out with consultation and reducing environmental impacts on the land and water." - @drheathergreen.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2018/05/02/h...

#envhist #mining #mininghistory #indigenous #yukon

Historical Mining and Contemporary Conflict: Lessons from the Klondike

The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in are not opposed to the mine, but they want to ensure it is carried out with consultation and reducing environmental impacts on the land and water.

niche-canada.org

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 5d

The last out on Sunday.

243 left to go.

Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 5d

High-fived so many strangers this weekend.

Ready to do it again at a bar tonight!

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 5d

“You always feel the weight of the world and decisions you make, but when you feel a country, it gets a little dicey at times, like the 6th inning with the bases loaded, nobody out and Aaron Judge hitting. You feel like people in Nova Scotia want to come murder you.” — Toronto manager John Schneider

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6d

TARMOLA. I think Tarmola would have been fun to visit. Suffered damage during hurricane hazel. Tarmola is where i climbed out of the valley just by the city limits at Humber Summit. 🚲

Tarmola, 1927 - 1968
Actual site: 1km N.E.)
This was the site of Tarmola, established in 1927 by the Finnish Society of Toronto as a summer retreat for Finnish workers and artisans. Volunteers built a large recreational complex here, including athletic facilities, an open-air dance pavilion and bandshell, a sauna, a restaurant, and rental cottages.
During the 1930's, at a time when there were few other comparable athletic fields, many Canadian Olympians trained at Tarmola. The site regularly hosted Finnish-Canadian cultural and athletic festivals. As many as 3000 people would attend performances featuring choirs and bands from across the country and track and field championships with athletes representing as many as 77 sports clubs from Salmon Arm, B.C. to Val D'Or, Quebec. The property was sold to the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority in 1968.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 6d

(They might even be able to offer a discount on membership for new LIFE students if you mention this is how you learned about it.)

Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not entirely sure what it looks like on their end, but they have a page explaining the registration process here:
thelifeinstitute.ca/page/courseR...

I know they're eager to have more students for this one, so you could also try emailing them at: [email protected]

Hope that helps a bit!

thelifeinstitute.ca

Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 6d

It begins tomorrow! Filled with even more stories of cross-border tensions this time around...

Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 12d

My most popular online course is back! And this time it's being offered through the LIFE Institute for students 50+.

We'll spend eight weekly lectures exploring the history of cross-border tensions.

Learn more: thelifeinstitute.ca

Toronto vs The United States: A History of Cross-Border Tensions. An online course about the times we haven't gotten along with our neighbours in eight weekly lectures from author Adam Bunch. Begins October 7, 2025. thelifeinstitute.ca

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Bob Georgiou @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social · 6d

Well, this is one of the odder police reports I've come across: A girl of 12 years(!) charged with larceny!
(The Globe, June 16, 1857)

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 6d

I am giving a presentation about 1950s-era Toronto bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd.

Where: Wychwood branch, Toronto Library

When: Oct 7 at 2 pm.

Free and open to the public.

Event info tinyurl.com/569r3ya2

My book at Amazon tinyurl.com/3pmav3j4 and Indigo tinyurl.com/y4bl4gv2

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 6d

If you pass through Queen’s Park Station, take note of the fabrication dates on the exposed tunnel liners before they are tiled over. A cool detail that will soon be hidden once again.

Below:
20•10•60
24•1•61
8•2•61

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 7d

The Blue Jays have scored 23 runs in their first two postseason games this season.

That's the most by any team in MLB history 🤯

H/T @chriskirschner.bsky.social

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 7d

Teams that Trey Yesavage has beaten in professional baseball this year:

- Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
- Clearwater Threshers
- Tri-City Dust Devils
- Hartford Yard Goats
- the New York Yankees in the MLB Postseason

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 7d

The admiration, the bat flip, the zoom to Fried 🫡

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 7d

*alt text “stake”