Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands and front porches on September 16, 1973. Since that day more than three decades ago, Mike’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the paper’s most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: The Way We Were by Dundurn Press. Since then another seven volumes of Toronto Sketches have been published, each of which has attained great success both with Toronto book buyers and with former Torontonians wishing to relive an earlier, gentler time in the city’s past.
This ninth volume features a variety of stories, including a look at Toronto’s 1904 inferno, the birth of Rex Heslop’s Rexdale community, a visit to Sunnyside Amusement Park, and a few fascinating tales about the city’s streetcars.
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.3/541
- General Note
- Columns from the Toronto Sunday sun"--Cover Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 1550026135 9781550029451
- LCCN
- F1059.5.T6857
- LCCN Item number
- F556 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (238 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00601451 (OCoLC)288061470 (CaOOCEL)410757
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Toronto sketches nine
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Toronto Sketches Toronto Sketches 1
- Table of Contents 6
- The New Old Toronto Street 10
- Bridging the Western Gap 13
- Transporting Toronto 16
- Bright Shiny and New 20
- An Elegant Liquor Store 23
- Car Show on the Road Again 26
- Attitude Adjustment 29
- Wind in Their Sails 32
- On the Toronto Waterfront 35
- Send in the Cavalry 38
- Sightseeing Chariots 41
- Ma Bells Birth 45
- On the Tube 48
- Looking Forward 52
- The Big Big Smoke 56
- Defending the Empire 59
- A Century of Grandeur 62
- Riding the Rails 64
- Wests Side Story 67
- Sporty Venue 71
- Taking to the Road 74
- More of Ernest Wests Old Photographs 76
- All About Bob 79
- Before Tim Horton There Was Downyflake 82
- Symbol of Early Days 85
- How We Envisioned It 88
- Look on the Sunnyside 90
- Ferry Across the Bay 93
- All Aboard ... Eventually 96
- Meet You at the Station 99
- Electric Exhibits 101
- How Rexdale Was Born 104
- Get Your Motor Running 107
- New City Hall Aging 110
- A Make-Work Project 113
- Moving with the Times 116
- Never on a Sunday 119
- Tunnel Vision 122
- Swimming Towards Fame 126
- Under the Waterfront 130
- The Patron St. Lawrence 134
- Mayoral Elections 137
- A Heavenly Venue 140
- Banking on Pizza 143
- Skating on Thin Ice 146
- Take Off Eh 150
- Parkway with a Past 152
- Path Leads to Past 155
- Gateway to Toronto 158
- Not Plane Sailing 162
- Tracking a Mystery 165
- Past Waxes Poetic 168
- Fire 171
- March of Time 174
- Fuel for Thought 178
- Building on the Past 181
- The Iceman Cometh 184
- Subway Sandwich 187
- Seeking Asylum 189
- Selfless Service 192
- Torontos 1904 Inferno 195
- Walking the Plank Road 197
- They Shoot They Score 200
- History Loves a Hero 203
- Streetcars on Parade 206
- Location Location Location 209
- Tragic Loss 211
- Royal Site 213
- Its a Gas Gas Gas 216
- In the Eye of a Camera 219
- Its Jolly Miller Time 221
- Ride the Trade Winds 224
- Madison Square Garden in Toronto 227
- Blazing a Trail 229
- Welcome to the Neighbourhood 232
- Promenade to the Past 235
- Talk About Gas Pain 237
- Toronto Sketches Toronto Sketches 242
