Toronto Sketches 12
"The Way We Were"
Will be published approx. on 24. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-4597-3169-1 (ISBN)
Description
Mike Filey brings the stories of Toronto, its people and places, to life.
Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the paper's first edition hit newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey's column has had an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper's most widely read features. In 1992, a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: "The Way We Were." Since then another eleven volumes have been published to great success, with over 5,000 copies sold.
In his latest compilation, Filey recounts the story of the controversial (though not altogether surprising) renovations at Union Station, as well as the history of Toronto's own Kennedy family.
Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the paper's first edition hit newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey's column has had an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper's most widely read features. In 1992, a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: "The Way We Were." Since then another eleven volumes have been published to great success, with over 5,000 copies sold.
In his latest compilation, Filey recounts the story of the controversial (though not altogether surprising) renovations at Union Station, as well as the history of Toronto's own Kennedy family.
Reviews / Votes
This eclectic compilation contains much in the way of Toronto facts on any number of subjects, and makes for informative and fun reading. * Ontario Historical Society Bulletin *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4597-3169-1 (9781459731691)
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E-Book
10/2015
Dundurn Press
€7.49
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Person
Mike Filey was born in Toronto in 1941. He has written more than two dozen books on various facets of Toronto's past and for more than thirty-five years has contributed a popular column, "The Way We Were," to the Toronto Sunday Sun. His Toronto Sketches series is more popular now than ever before.
Content
Contents
Here's to Our Kennedys
St. Clair Bridge Still Gives Us Trouble
Cemetery Last Port of Call
Escaping Summer by Boat
They Lined Up to Cross Niagara
Where Is Our Spitfire?
Makin' Tracks through History
This 1910 Idea Was a Real Lifesaver
Pleasant Streetcar History
From Civic to Simcoe
This Canuck Was a Golf God
Toronto Still Yonge at Heart
The Ill-Fated Ex of 1974
CNE's Back to the Future
Stately Structures Indeed
World's First Movie Star
Streamlining T.O.'s Streets
Rollin', Rollin' Down the River
Keewatin Comes Home
Tunnel Comes in for Landing
Mother Parker Turns One Hundred
Belt Line Was Short-Tracked
Wharf Lighthouse Turns 150
The Very First Grey Cup
Travels Back in Time
Gardiner in a Pickle
T.O.'s Evolving Skyline
T.O.'s Little Piece of Venice
Identified Flying Object
Toronto's Master Sleuth
The Best-laid Plans ...
T.O. Tried its Luck Before
Starter Motors
T.O.'s Second Subway
A Real Swinger on Bathurst
Gargoyles Get a Second Life
The Fileys Head South
Historic and Truly Moving
Jets Back on Island Radar
A Hot Time in the Old Town of York
Streetcar Inferno
Toronto's Changing Waterfront
Floating History
Postcard from the Wedge
Toronto's Early Hotels
The Little Tug That Could
Northern Fighters
The Way We Kept Our Cool
Wonderful Flying Machine
Never Got Off the Ground
Never Taxed for a Topic
Scarborough's Lost Dream
Getting There from Here
City Joined the Streetcar Biz
Toronto's Union Station, Then and Then
Toronto's Worst Disaster
Can't Beat New City Hall
When Vaudeville Ruled
Take the Time to Go to Jail
Pachyderms from the Past
Our First Remembrance
First TTC Rider Paid 7c Fare
Mi Casa Es Su Casa
Streetcar's Brush with Fame
A Piece of T.O.'s Flying History
When Eaton's Was Christmas
1944 Storm Still the Worst
Here's to Our Kennedys
St. Clair Bridge Still Gives Us Trouble
Cemetery Last Port of Call
Escaping Summer by Boat
They Lined Up to Cross Niagara
Where Is Our Spitfire?
Makin' Tracks through History
This 1910 Idea Was a Real Lifesaver
Pleasant Streetcar History
From Civic to Simcoe
This Canuck Was a Golf God
Toronto Still Yonge at Heart
The Ill-Fated Ex of 1974
CNE's Back to the Future
Stately Structures Indeed
World's First Movie Star
Streamlining T.O.'s Streets
Rollin', Rollin' Down the River
Keewatin Comes Home
Tunnel Comes in for Landing
Mother Parker Turns One Hundred
Belt Line Was Short-Tracked
Wharf Lighthouse Turns 150
The Very First Grey Cup
Travels Back in Time
Gardiner in a Pickle
T.O.'s Evolving Skyline
T.O.'s Little Piece of Venice
Identified Flying Object
Toronto's Master Sleuth
The Best-laid Plans ...
T.O. Tried its Luck Before
Starter Motors
T.O.'s Second Subway
A Real Swinger on Bathurst
Gargoyles Get a Second Life
The Fileys Head South
Historic and Truly Moving
Jets Back on Island Radar
A Hot Time in the Old Town of York
Streetcar Inferno
Toronto's Changing Waterfront
Floating History
Postcard from the Wedge
Toronto's Early Hotels
The Little Tug That Could
Northern Fighters
The Way We Kept Our Cool
Wonderful Flying Machine
Never Got Off the Ground
Never Taxed for a Topic
Scarborough's Lost Dream
Getting There from Here
City Joined the Streetcar Biz
Toronto's Union Station, Then and Then
Toronto's Worst Disaster
Can't Beat New City Hall
When Vaudeville Ruled
Take the Time to Go to Jail
Pachyderms from the Past
Our First Remembrance
First TTC Rider Paid 7c Fare
Mi Casa Es Su Casa
Streetcar's Brush with Fame
A Piece of T.O.'s Flying History
When Eaton's Was Christmas
1944 Storm Still the Worst