Mike Filey's Toronto Sketches, Books 7-9
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 2014
720 pages
978-1-4597-2948-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 volumes seven to nine, packed with fascinating information about Toronto's history.
Includes
- Toronto Sketches 7
- Toronto Sketches 8
- Toronto Sketches 9
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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
- Cover
- Toronto Sketches 7
- Table of Contents
- Roundabout the Roundhouse
- Toronto's Maritime Past on Display at the Pier
- Sir John A. Preferred the Queen's
- Hotel Spadina Finds New Life As Backpackers' Hostel
- About the Man and Street Called Jarvis
- The Road Through Mount Pleasant
- Keeps on Track with a Unique Gauge
- An Exhibition with Tradition
- Major League Dreams of Yesteryear
- A Marine Disaster of Titanic Proportions
- 100 Years and Counting: Ceremonies to Mark Centennial of Magnificent Old City Hall
- Building Up Our Tallest Structures
- The Genesis of University Avenue
- Harvey's Began a Beautiful Thing
- The Tale of Toronto's Unfortunate Titanic Survivor
- Our Subway Keeps Rolling Along
- Dancing Down at the Pier
- Leaside Long Ago
- The House That Arthur Built
- The Way We Could Have Been
- Take a Turn Through Toronto
- Time and a Clock Keep East Ticking
- Turn of the Century - 100 Years Ago
- Falling Victim to Killer Flu
- Sound Fit for Castle
- Time Running Out on Old Meters
- Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
- Love of Wheels Goes Way Back
- Toronto Has History of Thinking Big
- Oh, For Those Gas Price Wars!
- The House That Was Chorley Park
- Remembering Canada's First War Dead
- Toronto's "International" Intersection
- Downtown Devastation
- Debunking a High Park Myth
- Red Rockets Coloured Childhood
- Sunday Sports Not New
- It Was President's Choice
- Regiment Salutes Queen Mum
- Helping Our Kids Get Better
- Toronto's Shifting Waterfront
- He Leaves Landmark Legacy
- Where Have I Heard That Before?
- A Dandy Fight with the Yanks
- Some Things Never Change
- Imposing Grid on Toronto the Good
- The Latest in Hogtown Mascots
- Hope Floats in Captain John's Story
- Brockville's Toronto Connections
- Good Lord! It's Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe.
- $32-Million Facelift for Coliseum
- Mackenzie Was Railway King
- Toronto Water an Old Problem
- Not All in Favour of City Hall
- Man Behind Mineral Baths
- Watch Out for Streetcars
- Unearthing Necropolis's Past
- Hurricane Hazel Brought Tragedy to Toronto
- History Is All in the Cards
- Some Issues Never Go Away
- Public Transit a "Private" Matter
- Man Who Would Be Mayor - Wasn't
- Motoring Back to Yesteryear
- This Plant Generated Some Steam
- Toronto Then and Now
- Island Airport Bridge Up in the Air
- Memories of Christmases Past
- Old City Hall Bells Still Toll for Us
- Toronto Sketches 8
- Table of Contents
- Fave Painting Tells a Story
- Business Buried in the Past
- Marilyn Buoyed Our Hearts
- Coming to a Dead End
- Auto Shows a Toronto Tradition
- Looking For an Even Better Way
- Dial-Up Phone Changes
- No Getting Away from Them
- Downtown Living at Its Best
- WWII Hit Close to Home
- WWII Heroes Boost Morale
- Leafs Scored First Cup in '32
- Toronto Shows Off Its Easter Finery
- Toronto's Diamond Dreams
- Looking After Our Veterans
- At the Crossroads
- Front and Centre
- Foster Father of T.O.
- Planting the Seeds
- Proud, Old Haida
- Move Over Roswell
- Forever Yonge
- 25 Years and Counting
- Toronto's Capital Idea
- On a Pioneer Quest
- TTC Treasures on Display
- Country Roads Now Busy Scarborough Intersection
- Toronto's Finest Walkin' the Beat through History
- Celebrating Simcoe
- One More Time Around
- Sub Lore Lives On
- New Life from Liberty
- Moving Toronto
- Dying for Recognition
- City's First Superhighway
- Junction Name Survives Many Amalgamations
- Taking Stock of the Junction
- The Evolution of a Corner
- A "Horrid" City Hall
- The Legacy Continues
- Dig Solves Mystery
- Deer Roamed Here
- Hero's Final Journey
- Magic Movie Memories
- Booking Christmas
- A Small Mystery
- Our Long and Winding Roads
- Our Man Filey Is Stumped
- Exposing Our Past in Pictures
- Tracing Toronto's Tracks
- Fort York Under Attack
- Streetwalkin' Man
- Glory Days of the Palace Pier
- Bridging the Gap
- Toronto, A Safe Haven
- When the Leafs Budded
- On the Shelf
- Tripping Down Gasoline Alley
- Last Movie Palace
- The "Déjà Vu" from Here
- TD Centre on Horizon
- Moving Story of Historic Home
- Down Home Heroes
- Charred Ruins in Our City
- Glory for Leafs
- Swimming Into History
- Dickens of a Traveller
- On the Trams
- Thirty-Five Years on the Go
- "Best Used Car Buy in Town"
- Charting Toronto Harbour
- Life's a Beach
- Have a Right Royal Visit
- Recipe for a Riot
- Lighting Up 135 Candles
- In the Market for a Change
- Art at the Market Gallery
- Ahh, Those Good Old Days
- Queen's Quay: Before and After
- Off to Market We Go
- Consummating the Union
- History of Our Brave Mounted Police
- Enter the Princes' Gates
- Making an Exhibition
- What Might Have Been
- Dental College Endures
- A Desire for Streetcars
- That Was Then, This Is Now
- Spad-ee-na, Spad-eye-na?
- Will Plans Fly This Time?
- Rollin' on Toronto Bay
- Say Goodbye to the Past
- Come Dance With Me
- Origins of the Sheppard Subway Line
- From Footpath to Street
- Power to the People
- Memories of Eaton's
- Stories from History on Track
- Streetcar-Only Lanes
- On the Waterfront
- Views of Toronto's Evolving Skyline
- Toronto Sketches 9
- Table of Contents
- The New Old Toronto Street
- Bridging the Western Gap
- Transporting Toronto
- Bright, Shiny, and New
- An Elegant Liquor Store
- Car Show on the Road Again
- Attitude Adjustment
- Wind in Their Sails
- On the Toronto Waterfront
- Send in the Cavalry
- Sightseeing Chariots
- Ma Bell's Birth
- On the Tube
- Looking Forward
- The Big, Big Smoke
- Defending the Empire
- A Century of Grandeur
- Riding the Rails
- West's Side Story
- Sporty Venue
- Taking to the Road
- More of Ernest West's Old Photographs
- All About Bob
- Before Tim Horton There Was Downyflake
- Symbol of Early Days
- How We Envisioned It
- Look on the Sunnyside
- Ferry Across the Bay
- All Aboard . . . Eventually
- Meet You at the Station
- Electric Exhibits
- How Rexdale Was Born
- Get Your Motor Running
- "New" City Hall Aging
- A Make-Work Project
- Moving with the Times
- Never on a Sunday
- Tunnel Vision
- Swimming Towards Fame
- Under the Waterfront
- The Patron St. Lawrence
- Mayoral Elections
- A Heavenly Venue
- Banking on Pizza
- Skating on Thin Ice
- Take Off, Eh?
- Parkway with a Past
- Path Leads to Past
- Gateway to Toronto
- Not Plane Sailing
- Tracking a Mystery
- Past Waxes Poetic
- Fire!
- March of Time
- Fuel for Thought
- Building on the Past
- The Iceman Cometh
- Subway Sandwich
- Seeking Asylum
- Selfless Service
- Toronto's 1904 Inferno
- Walking the Plank Road
- They Shoot, They Score!
- History Loves a Hero
- Streetcars on Parade
- Location, Location, Location
- Tragic Loss
- Royal Site
- It's a Gas, Gas, Gas
- In the Eye of a Camera
- It's Jolly Miller Time
- Ride the Trade Winds
- Madison Square Garden in Toronto
- Blazing a Trail
- Welcome to the Neighbourhood
- Promenade to the Past
- Talk About Gas Pain
- Copyright
