The Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, located in the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre on the fifth floor of the Toronto Reference Library, includes a manuscript collection with over 1,500 entries consisting of historical letters, diaries, plans, notebooks, speeches and other unpublished items detailing the private lives of (mostly) Canadian individuals and organizations from […]
The Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, located in the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre on the 5th floor of the Toronto Reference Library, includes a manuscript collection with over 1500 entries consisting of historical letters, diaries, plans, notebooks, speeches and other unpublished items detailing the private lives of Canadian individuals and organizations from the […]
Saturday was Record Store Day; I was at work all day but Toronto (and many other cities around the globe) were bustling with vinyl enthusiasts visiting their local shops to dig through the crates for special limited editions and maybe take in some live in-store performances. And on their way home they probably looked and […]
Today is Record Store Day; I'm going to be at work all day (don't feel bad for me, I already have too many records) but Toronto (and many other cities around the globe) will be bustling with vinyl enthusiasts visiting their local shops to dig through the crates for special limited editions and maybe take […]
Longtime Toronto Star photojournalist Reg Innell passed away on February 1st at the age of 92. He was born in Sussex, England, and got his start in the shutterbug biz by selling pictures to newspapers in London after the Second World War. After a stint in the British Army, he moved to Canada in the […]
Before there was a New City Hall in Toronto, there was Old City Hall…but of course, nobody called it Old City Hall until there was a New City Hall to compare it to. And when Old City Hall was just City Hall, there was already an "Old" City Hall located in what we know as the South […]
The news that Old City Hall may be converted into a civic history museum and library after the lease currently held by provincial and municipal courts ends in 2021 coincided with a presentation I recently gave to the Toronto In Literature Book Club, which had just finished the popular 2009 murder mystery Old City Hall by […]
When I started working at the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre on the 5th floor of the Toronto Reference Library earlier this year, one of the first things that really caught my eye was the Alan and Thomas Suddon Collection: approximately 5,000 posters, broadsides and flyers advertising everything from businesses to protests to […]
Testing ignore When I started working at the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre on the 5th floor of the Toronto Reference Library earlier this year, one of the first things that really caught my eye was the Alan and Thomas Suddon Collection; approximately 5,000 posters, broadsides and flyers advertising everything from businesses to […]
Have you camped out overnight before Record Store Day? Are the words "diggin' in the crates" and "dusty fingers" part of your personal manifesto? When you close your eyes do you see spinning black circles? If any of these are the case, then you're probably a record fanatic. Well, I am too, and on Monday, […]