Today when I met with my writer friend Robert Hoshowsky for our usual coffee and chat, I started to think. It is seldom that most of us stop to reflect upon the history of the buildings that we frequent each…
Last weekend was one of my favorite weekends in Toronto. The occasion was the annual Doors Open. For historians it’s a great opportunity to venture inside some of Toronto’s oldest and most well preserved buildings. This year however, there…
I was recently invited to a gathering at 45 Spadina Rd, once known as the Spadina Gardens Apartments. This impressive building is one of a pair of Victorian apartment buildings, constructed in 1906 by Sir Henry Pellatt, wealthy entrepreneur and builder of Casa Loma. My hostess, when…
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