Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 12 (eBook, ePUB)

"The Way We Were"

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781459731714
• Artikelnr.: 43986970

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 7¢ 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