Toronto Sketches 9 - Mike Filey

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      Toronto Sketches 9

      MIKE FILEY

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      THE DUNDURN GROUP

      TORONTO

      Copyright © Mike Filey, 2006

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

      Copy-Editor: Michael Carroll

      Design: Andrew Roberts

      Printer: Transcontinental

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Filey, Mike, 1941-

      Toronto sketches 9 : “the way we were” / Mike Filey.

      ISBN-10: 1-55002-613-5

      ISBN-13: 978-1-55002-613-9

      1. Toronto (Ont.)--History. I. Title. II. Title: Toronto sketches nine.

      FC3097.4.F5496 2006 971.3'541 C2006-900524-9

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      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

       J. Kirk Howard, President

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       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

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