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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 20d

Ontario Land Records Index is now digitized and freely available to the public: archive.org/details/onta....
Thanks to the collaboration with the Archives of Ontario, @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social, OurDigitalWorld and CRKN.
internetarchivecanada.org/2025/09/24/n...

Now Online! Ontario Land Records Index – Internet Archive Canada

internetarchivecanada.org

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · 28d

Excellent alt text: dopey windows. More emphasis on the faux boulders, though. A remarkable choice!

dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 28d

Reporting an architectural crime. 3610 W. 26th, Chicago. Built in 1922, Dubin & Eisenberg, architects.

Two-story flat-roofed commercial building. It's a brick building with a white terra cotta facade, at least on the 2nd floor. (Or is it stone?) The terra cotta ornament includes festooned arches, finials, fluted pillars, and an elaborate pediment/cartouche at top center decorated with bunches of fruit. The first floor facade has been criminally altered with ugly brown brick, faux stone, two dopey picture windows, and a red awning.

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Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · Aug 21

Biidaasige Park!!
The new park everyone is talking about!!

Fantastic team design, construction, TO's P&R, TRCA, led by amazing Waterfront Toronto.
Shannon Baker Project Director does amazing 30 min presentation, from moving Don River, planting thousands of trees...
Watch & share: bit.ly/4mSiIYg

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Aug 20

The two Ontario land record courses this fall organized by @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social are filling fast. Both Sept and Nov series are at about 2/3 capacity. Jump in quick if you want a spot!
torontofamilyhistory.org/learn-about-...

Watercolour painting of the farm house and outbuildings of land surveyor Edward Miles, Weston Road, York. Toronto Public Library, Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, via Digital Archive Ontario. Public domain.

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Aug 13

Tomorrow, August 14, is the final day to view the recording of the 2025 Toronto History Lecture.

Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you missed the 2025 Toronto History Lecture on Tuesday (or just want to see it again) you're in luck. @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social recorded the lecture and it is available to view until August 14: torontofamilyhistory.org/learn/toront...

Night shot of red and yellow streetcar speeding along Dundas Street.

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you missed the 2025 Toronto History Lecture on Tuesday (or just want to see it again) you're in luck. @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social recorded the lecture and it is available to view until August 14: torontofamilyhistory.org/learn/toront...

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Toronto's Changing Street Names" with Wayne Reeves.
This Thursday 7:00 pm at TRL
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...

Two men fastening street signs to a pole already cluttered with traffic lights and a no-left-turn sign. The signs are for Bay St and Queen St W.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’ll be at the clubhouse in Riverdale Park until 4pm!

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Aug 4

I predict tomato sandwiches.

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Toronto Branch, OGS @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social · Jul 28

Toronto has a large streetcar network but did you know other cities in North America also have streetcars? Cincinnati has the Connector, a colourful modern electric system that riders can board for free:
www.cincinnati-oh.gov/streetcar/

The Connector

The Cincinnati Bell Connector is an electric mode of transportation operating in its first phase on a 4-mile loop connecting key communities in the city's urban core.

www.cincinnati-oh.gov

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Toronto Branch, OGS @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social · Jul 28

Or visit San Francisco and ride on a historic streetcar on their F Line:
www.sftravel.com/article/guid...

Guide to San Francisco's Historic F Line Streetcar

Hop aboard San Francisco's F Line streetcar and you'll be taken to some of the city's best restaurants, hotels, and attractions.

www.sftravel.com

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Toronto Branch, OGS @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social · Jul 28

Join us on Tuesday August 5 at 7:00 pm to learn more about Toronto's iconic streetcars. Pictured here is the classic PCC streetcar that was retired in 1995. The Toronto History Lecture is free for all but you must pre-register.
torontofamilyhistory.org/event/the-to...

The classic PCC streetcar pictured on Dundas Street in 1980 in the evening.

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Jul 30

Each summer @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social holds a very special event to remember a friend. The 2025 Toronto History Lecture is Tues Aug 5 at 7:00 on Zoom. @briandoucet.bsky.social & Michael Doucet present Toronto's Streetcars: How the past shapes the present
torontofamilyhistory.org/learn/toront...

Toronto History Lecturers on the Bathurst streetcar with the metal superstructure of a bridge in the background

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Jul 30

Each summer @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social holds a very special event to remember a friend. The 2025 Toronto History Lecture is Tues Aug 5 at 7:00 on Zoom. @briandoucet.bsky.social & Michael Doucet present Toronto's Streetcars: How the past shapes the present
torontofamilyhistory.org/learn/toront...

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Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon @nhenrydixon.bsky.social · Jul 9

On July 9, 1793 the Act to Limit Slavery passed, influenced by the Chloe Cooley incident. Read about it and her life here:

Dictionary of Canadian Biography @dcb-dbc.bsky.social · Jul 9

No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight the stories of:
📖Chloe Cooley (fl. 1793), an enslaved Black woman biographi.ca/en/bio/coole...
and
📖An enslaved Black woman (fl. 1802–3) whose name is unrecorded: biographi.ca/en/bio/name_...
Learn more: biographi.ca/en/topics/to...

COOLEY, CHLOE – Dictionary of Canadian Biography

One of the hundreds of Black people who were enslaved in Upper Canada, Chloe Cooley (fl. 1793) came to public attention in March 1793 after her enslaver, Adam Vrooman, forcibly transported her across the Niagara River to sell her on the American side. Two witnesses reported the incident and her desperate resistance, which directly influenced the subsequent passage of the Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada. In 2022 the Canadian government designated Cooley a person of national historic significance.

biographi.ca

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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · Jul 1

🇨🇦 Wishing everyone a Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦! gifcities.org/gram/35d4bc2... Send a Gifgram to a pal - part of the GifCities project at @archive.org 🎆

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Jun 29

In the summer of 1903, Toronto had a party—a four-day blowout over the Dominion Day holiday—July 1 to 4. More than 4,000 former Torontonians were invited to the Toronto Home Comers' Festival. I wrote a thing.
wherethestorytakesme.ca/home-comers-...

Front page of the special Home Comers issue of the Globe newspaper published on 4 July 1903. Images include Toronto City Hall, the Ontario Legislature, and skyline with sailboats racing on the Bay in the foreground.

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Jun 25

Not just Chrome. Not being able to get to the next page is a frequent frustration. As is getting kicked back to the beginning. If the records you need happen to be on the interloan page, it is much better.

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Jun 19

You can read all about Lt. Fitch, his family, and the painting of his demise in this investigative memoir by his cousin. Available through @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social
torontofamilyhistory.shop/item/the-sto...

The Story of a Painting

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CREATION OF “THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT FITCH” by Robin Brooks-Hill Published by the author on Blurb.ca 8 x 10 inches, 44 pages, PDF download

torontofamilyhistory.shop

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Toronto Branch, OGS @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social · May 27

Thinking of taking a genealogy research trip? Then you'll want to attend our next in-person only meeting. Join us on June 14 at 1pm at the North York Public Library for Preparing for a Genealogy Holiday. All are welcome but you'll need to register in advance:
torontofamilyhistory.org/event/prepar...

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · Jun 3

Yonge just south of Trinity, the little street that led to Trinity Square. Maybe Townleys made Rev Henry Scadding's suits?

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · May 31

Wheeler was wheeling way down the Winchester hill into the ravine? That wasn't wise.

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · May 23

Local robins were pretty happy, too. Worms not so much.

Kaye Prince-Hollenberg @kayeprince.bsky.social · May 23

My favourite headline from yesterday's local paper.

Headline: Hamilton rain perfect for parsnip seeding. Local farmer takes advantage of recent rainfall.

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · May 19

Lovely spirally terracotta finials (if that's the correct term) on the ends of the arches. An unusual motif?

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Jane MacNamara @wherethestory.bsky.social · May 13

Very interesting tour of items tucked away in the undercroft in the 1930s and where they've ended up.

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · May 13

We have been having a rummage through our collections today and have come across this photo of the Undercroft taken in the 1930s.

Apart from the stonking oak posts there are some other interesting items in this room.

Join us for a virtual tour as we find out a bit more!

We are looking at a black and white photo of a large room with large central oak posts and a newly laid stone flagged floor. In the background are brick fireplaces as well as panelling, a large light fitting and a carved wood fire surround.

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