Interested in learning about the heyday of cycling in Toronto? Be sure to visit our current exhibit Toronto’s Sporting Past in the TD Gallery located on the main floor of the Toronto Reference Library. Catch the exhibit before it closes on September 5! You can also check out our virtual exhibit to learn more. Librarian Joanna Morrison, one of the curators of […]
This is our closing piece on the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Parapan Am Games. To highlight our sports collection at the Toronto Reference Library, we looked at athletic facilities, various aspects of sport, special materials collected on the Pan American Games and, last but not least, we’ll look at competitive sports and the disabled. Sport […]
Today you can catch the Men’s Single Sculls Final at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. Did you know that back in the late 19th century, single sculls rowing was one of the most popular sporting events in the city? In fact, Ned Hanlan, a handsome and mustachioed young sculler from Toronto is widely regarded as Canada’s first […]
You have just two more weeks to check out Exposed, on display at the TD Gallery on the first floor of the Toronto Reference Library. Exposed is our first exhibition of images from the Toronto Star Photograph Archive – a collection of over one million images donated by the Toronto Star to the Toronto Public […]
One of the more unusual collections in the Humanities & Social Sciences Department at the Toronto Reference Library is the Municipal Election Campaign Literature Collection. This primary source collection of pamphlets, flyers, and door hangers put out by candidates running for mayor, alderman (now known as councillor) or school trustee have been collected and preserved […]