It's all about William Lyon "Little Rebel" Mackenzie in today's Toronto History Curiosities! 📰 open.substack.com/pub/bobgeorg...

Join Toronto Historian Jeremy Hopkin + Track Changes author Cam Gordon for a free walking tour about music, literature, history + physical media. 🗓️ Wednesday, July 8 🕔 7 - 8 PM 📍 Meet outside 10 Edward St. 🎟️ FREE #TrackChanges #jeremyhopkin #samtherecordman #hmv #worldsbiggestbookstore

There's a winning hockey team in Toronto! Go Marlies! Calder Cup Champs!

The latest Toronto History Curiosities digs deep and looks up at a map of Eaton's tunnels, a view of Charlotte's Castle, and some bootlegging under Gladstone(?). bobgeorgiou.substack.com/p/12-tunnels...

Is there a word for a perfectly framed building at the end of a street, and if so, can I submit the Playter House as one of the best? #EastEndTO

A few properties at 390-396 Church Street came up in some research. Very neat to see a Chinese Laundry in the Archives.

Thanks to everyone who attended last night!

Tuesday night! A night on Zoom talking about the city's hidden tunnels with @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social, @ekvery.bsky.social and Barbara Dickson...

A jaunt through Downsview Park for World Partnership Walk! Neat views!

The latest 'Toronto History Curiosities' is weird... bobgeorgiou.substack.com/p/11-bizarre...

📣 I will be a panelist for The Festival of Bizarre Toronto History! Join some amazing Toronto writers -- and me -- virtually on June 2 as we dig through Toronto's history of weird, mysterious, and important underground paths! Thanks @adambunch.bsky.social! 🪏 Tickets at www.bizarretoronto.com!

You have the opportunity to see the exhibit I curated, Illuminate Black, during Doors Open Toronto! The Archives of Ontario will be open 10am to 5pm on Saturday, May 23rd. Info: www.archives.gov.on.ca/doors-open-a...

Who wants to tell them? 😃

For Doors Open this weekend, I'm leading a free walking tour filled with strange stories about the foundations of multicultural Toronto! "From The Ward to Kensington Market" is happening at 11am and 2:30pm on both Saturday & Sunday: www.toronto.ca/explore-enjo...

As always @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social has a fantastic write up on O'Sullivan's Corners & the Muirhead property. It's a good read on the history of what is now more of less a sleeping inner suburb community. As always, if you're not following @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social on here, you really should 3/3

Catching up with the ghosts of Toronto's built heritage at The Guild Park.

Lunch at the Old Stone Cottage. As old as Canada.

The rain came in while at Rosetta McClain Gardens. Still very pretty.

I came across this 1991 Toronto Star article announcing a new library in Bathurst Heights. It's now the Barbara Frum Library. It reminded me of the Lillian H. Smith Library downtown. Both have an older feel. As it turns out, they are by the same architect: Phillip Carter!

On this date in 1928, Alice Kilgour donated Sunnybrook Farm to the citizens of Toronto. Sunnybrook Park opened in September and is now the site of Sunnybrook Hospital. In the image below, she is standing next to Mayor Sam McBride on the day that the park opened.

How to be a Flâneur open.substack.com/pub/howtowal...

The Toronto Soccer Issue (issue 75) is on the shelves of fine retailers! (This one, at Book City at Yonge and St. Clair). Here is the table of contents - lots of great material to remind you that Toronto is and has long been a soccer city.

Lost racetracks, forgotten villages, found old census records, and a Jane’s Walk roundup! The latest edition of 'Toronto History Curiosities' is ready! 📰 bobgeorgiou.substack.com/p/10-lost-an...

This piece of pavement might not seem like much, but this is a piece of an abandoned road. Until the fifties Winchester st used to cross the river here and meet up with Danforth up the hill. #RavineRambles #LoveTheRavines #DonValley #hike #trail @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social

Looking for some neat and nerdy activities and locales in Montreal! I've already got a Heritage Montreal walking tour, le Musée Pointe-à-Callière, and le Musée McCord Stewart.

Looking for some neat and nerdy activities and locales in Montreal! I've already got a Heritage Montreal walking tour, le Musée Pointe-à-Callière, and le Musée McCord Stewart.

"Rediscovering Thorncliffe Racetrack" by Edward Brown & Barry Pieterson for @janeswalk.bsky.social! Lots of neat history & storytelling! It's running tomorrow, too, if anyone wants to check it out.

Hey, it's the long-awaited @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social & @torontoboris.bsky.social meeting! 😀

Thank you to the amazing group of 50+ people who joined me in "Finding Old Castle Frank" for @janeswalk.bsky.social! #JanesWalkTO

It time for a Jane's Walk with @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social If your not following Bob on here, you really should. We're discovering the history of old Castle Frank today. #janeswalkto #OurStreetsOurStories

Sun 3 May, 10AM | Come and find out what makes this park such a special place on the waterfront. @janeswalk.bsky.social #Toronto

Visual aids ✔️ See you tomorrow at 10 AM at Castle Frank for @janeswalk.bsky.social!

#topoli Join @tatumtaylorchaubal.bsky.social & me for a walking tour of The Ward as part of @janeswalk.bsky.social 2026. May 3, 1pm at the Church of the Holy Trinity (west entrance), 90 min, accessible. www.janeswalkfestivalto.com/sunday-may-3...

This Saturday! I'll be leading a free walking tour filled with the stories of some of Toronto's most notorious murders as part of the Jane's Walk festival! www.janeswalkfestivalto.com/saturday-may...

Jane's Walks begins this Friday and I am hosting a walking on Saturday at 10am at Castle Frank! The forecast is looking chilly but dry. Bodes hopefully well for some old road hunting, like these fellows!

Sunday stroll contains ghosts of Jane's Walk past.

A view south west on Yonge Street from Richmond Street in the 1940s. The Bank of Commerce building on King St. W. looms in the distance. #1940s #yongestreet #torontohistory #toronto #jeremyhopkin

New on 'Toronto History Curiosities': I am leading a Jane's Walk on May 2 plus some Toronto World and a review of "Toronto: Biography of a City"! 🚶‍♂️ open.substack.com/pub/bobgeorg...

Jane's Walk-ers, there's an unofficial map of Jane's Walk start and end spots! If you created this, thank you! www.reddit.com/r/toronto/co...

Tonight's research gripe: Why, oh, why 1860s news article, do you have two different spellings of your subject's name in the SAME piece?

Found a neat new-ish article about Jane Ward of the Brook's Bush Gang. After the Hogan murder trial, she changed her name to Lewis and ended up in Guelph, then living her last years in the Wellington Poor House in Fergus until 1904. www.guelphtoday.com/then-and-now...

The video is available now - I hope you enjoy it!

Could you be the next Toronto History Lecturer? Deadline for proposals is May 1.

The Don Jail was Toronto's most notorious prison. In part one of this episode, we'll explain why the prison was built and the ideas behind its design. We'll also talk about some of the people who spent time there during the 19th century. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/ndv23fX3v2b

New issue! Editor @dylanreid.bsky.social introduces our soccer issue (#74), ahead Toronto hosting World Cup games, and argues that Toronto has been and is much more of a soccer city than many might think. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

A dramatic new Toronto history walking tour! The city has been shaken by countless riots over the years — from rampaging firefighters to brawling circus clowns. So we'll be talking about some of the most fascinating Toronto riots in the places where they happened. Next Saturday! Pay what you like!

North side of Eglinton at Victoria Park Ave has some sweet photos of the Bomb Girls! Anyone know who was behind them?

The stairs on Athletic Ave. that used to go down to Ulster Stadium, the home of Ulster United FC. Read all about it in Nancy Dutra's piece in the new soccer issue of @spacing.bsky.social , now at the Spacing Store and soon in mailboxes and fine bookstores.

Does anyone else take out a book on Libby and then forget about it until they get the notification that it's been returned? 😬

📣Let's go "Finding Old Castle Frank" on a Jane's Walk! 👣 Join me on Saturday, May 2 at 10:00 AM at Castle Frank Station as we explore around the history and geography of the Castle Frank area! 🏰 Full details on the @janeswalk.bsky.social site! www.janeswalkfestivalto.com/saturday-may...