The Future of the Toronto Island Airport
The Future of the Toronto Island Airport

Author: Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront (Canada)

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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The current paper looks at another aspect of the Toronto Harbour Commissioners' responsibilities, the Toronto Island Airport, which the THC has operated and managed since the facility was established in 1939. The report is presented in three parts. The first describes the Airport's origins and history, noting significant changes that have occurred at various stages of its development, including the 1961 capital program, the introduction of scheduled services in the 1970s and of Short Take-off and Landing Aircraft (STOL) in the '80s, and the signing of the 1983 Tripartite Agreement amongst the City of Toronto, the Toronto Harbour Commissioners, and the federal Minister of Transport.

Colossal Canadian Failures 2
Colossal Canadian Failures 2

Author: Randy Richmond

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1550026186

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This second entertaining collection offers more evidence that Canada could adopt as its national slogan ?If we don't laugh, we'll cry.”

Toronto Sketches
Toronto Sketches

Author: Mike Filey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 1992-09-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1459710932

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Mike Filey's "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper's most popular features. In Toronto Sketches Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city's people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer.

Trillium and Toronto Island
Trillium and Toronto Island

Author: Mike Filey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1770705503

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In June 1910, the new steam ferry for the Toronto Island Company was launched and christened the Trillium. As it reaches the century mark, Mike Filey revisits the history of the memorable Canadian landmark. With updated photographs, Filey traces the Trillium’s remarkable rise and fall and commemorates one of Toronto’s finest treasures.

Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront
Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront

Author: Gene Desfor

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1442610018

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Large-scale development is once again putting Toronto's waterfront at the leading edge of change. As in other cities around the world, policymakers, planners, and developers are envisioning the waterfront as a space of promise and a prime location for massive investments. Currently, the waterfront is being marketed as a crucial territorial wedge for economic ascendancy in globally competitive urban areas. Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront analyses how and why 'problem spaces' on the waterfront have become 'opportunity spaces' during the past hundred and fifty years. Contributors with diverse areas of expertise illuminate processes of development and provide fresh analyses of the intermingling of nature and society as they appear in both physical forms and institutional arrangements, which define and produce change. Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront is a fundamental resource for understanding the waterfront as a dynamic space that is neither fully tamed nor wholly uncontrolled.

Mike Filey's Toronto Sketches, Books 1-3
Mike Filey's Toronto Sketches, Books 1-3

Author: Mike Filey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13: 1459729463

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Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: "The Way We Were." Since then another ten volumes have been published. Each column looks at Toronto as it was and contributes to our understanding of how the city became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches are nostalgic journeys for the long-time Torontonian and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer. This special bundle collects the first three of those volumes, packed with fascinating information about Toronto’s history. Includes Toronto Sketches More Toronto Sketches Toronto Sketches 3

A Toronto Album 2
A Toronto Album 2

Author: Mike Filey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2002-09

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1550023934

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A companion edition to A Toronto Album, this is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s.

Toronto
Toronto

Author: Mike Filey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2008-10-27

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1459703081

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For decades Toronto historian Mike Filey has regaled readers with stories of the city’s past through its landmarks, neighbourhoods, streetscapes, social customs, pleasure palaces, politics, sporting events, celebrities, and defining moments. Now, in one lavishly illustrated volume, he serves up the best of his meditations on everything from the Royal York Hotel, the Flatiron Building, and the Necropolis to Massey Hall, the Palais Royale, and the Canadian National Exhibition, with streetcar jaunts through Cabbagetown, the Annex, Rosedale, and Little Italy and trips down memory lane with Mary Pickford, Glenn Miller, Bob Hope, and Ed Mirvish. Filey recounts in vivid detail the devastation of city disasters such as Hurricane Hazel and the Great Fire of 1904 and spins yarns about doughnut shops old and new, milk deliveries by horse, swimming at Lake Ontario’s beaches, Sunday blue laws, and how both World Wars affected Torontonians.

How We Changed Toronto
How We Changed Toronto

Author: John Sewell

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2015-09-21

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1459409418

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By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth. All this "progress" had a price. Heritage buildings were disappearing. Whole neighbourhoods were being destroyed -- by city hall itself -- in the name of urban renewal and high-rise developers. Many idealistic, young Torontonians didn't like what they saw. At a time when political activism was in the air, they engaged in local politics. Recently graduated lawyer John Sewell was one of many. He joined his friends working for local residents in areas targeted for demolition by city hall. Others were fighting the Spadina expressway, planned to push its way through the city to the lakeshore. Still others were saving Toronto's Old City Hall from demolition. This was the modest start of a twelve-year transformation of Toronto, chronicled in John Sewell's new book. Bringing together a fascinating cast of characters -- from cigar-chomping developers to Jane Jacobs and David Crombie, from a host of ordinary citizens to some of the world's most innovative architects and planners -- Sewell describes the conflict-filled period when Toronto developed a whole new approach to city government, civic engagement, and planning policies. Sewell went from activist organizer, to high-profile opposition politician, to leading light of a bare reform majority at city hall, to become Toronto's mayor. Along the way he sparked the rethinking of an amazing array of old ideas -- not just about how cities should grow, but about race relations, attitudes toward the LGBT community, and the role of police. His defeat in the city's 1980 election marked the end of a decade of dramatic transformation, but the changes this reform era produced are now entrenched -- in Toronto, but in other Canadian cities, too. How We Changed Toronto is the inside story of activist idealists who set out to change the world -- and did, right in their own backyard.