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Trillium and Toronto Island

Mike Filey

Trillium and Toronto Island

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Toronto Sketches 9

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 9

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...

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Toronto Sketches 8

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 8

Toronto Sun columnist Mike Filey is back with Toronto Sketches 8 , the series that captures the people, politics, and architecture of Toronto's past with photographs and anecdotes that will change the way you see the city forever. The book brings us back to the time of Toronto's original horse-drawn streetcar, the construction of Maple Leaf Gardens, and other memories of Toronto, many of which show how history repeats itself, as in the gas price wars of the early 20th century or the...

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Toronto Sketches 7

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 7

Mike Filey is back again with another installment in the popular Toronto Sketches series. Mike’s nostalgic look at the city’s past combines legend, personal anecdotes, and photographs to chronicle the life of an ever-changing city. Among the stories in this volume, Mike looks back to the introduction of the «horseless carriage.» He laments the loss of great movie houses of the past – the University, Shea’s Hippodrome, the Tivoli – and applauds those looking to save the Eglinton Theatre, and...

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Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 6

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 6

Stories of Old Toronto never lose favour with the city’s nostalgia buffs, and as long as Mike Filey continues to provide us with his «The Way We Were» columns, no one’s appetite will have to go unsatisfied. When Mike’s Toronto Sunday Sun columns were first brought together in Toronto Sketches , demand was so high that it prompted a second collection … then a third … and a fourth … and a fifth. Now, for 2000, Mike has once again brought together some of the best of his Toronto Sunday Sun ...

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Toronto Sketches 5

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 5

Mike Filey’s «The Way We Were» column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 5 , the fifth volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns from 1996 and 1997. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches 5 is a nostalgic...

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Toronto Sketches 4

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 4

Mike Filey’s «The Way We Were» column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 4 , the fourth volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the...

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Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 3

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 3

Mike Filey’s «The Way We Were» column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 3 , the third volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the...

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Toronto Sketches 12

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 12

Mike Filey brings the stories of Toronto, its people and places, to life. Mike Filey’s column “The Way We Were” first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the paper’s first edition hit newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has had an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most widely read features. In 1992, a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: “The Way We Were.” Since then another eleven volumes have...

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Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 11

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 11

Mike Filey brings Toronto’s history and the stories of its people and places to life. 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 on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most widely read features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: «The Way We Were.» Since then another nine...

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Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 10

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches 10

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 on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: «The Way We Were.» Since then another eight volumes of Toronto Sketches have been published, each of which has attained great...

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Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches

Mike Filey

Toronto Sketches

Mike Filey's «The Way We Were» column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper's most popular features. In Toronto Sketches Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city's people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for...

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Mike Filey

Toronto

Mike Filey

Toronto

For decades Toronto historian Mike Filey has regaled readers with stories of the city’s past through its landmarks, neighbourhoods, streetscapes, social customs, pleasure palaces, politics, sporting events, celebrities, and defining moments. Now, in one lavishly illustrated volume, he serves up the best of his meditations on everything from the Royal York Hotel, the Flatiron Building, and the Necropolis to Massey Hall, the Palais Royale, and the Canadian National Exhibition, with streetcar...

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Mike Filey

The TTC Story

Mike Filey

The TTC Story

Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation. The TTC Story:The First Seventy-five Years , by Mike Filey, features over one hundred magnificent black and white images selected to illustrate the principal «transit» event in each year of the TTC's...

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Mike Filey

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Mike Filey

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Established in 1876, Mount Pleasant Cemetery has a rich and textured history. It is the keeper of thousands of stories, each of which has contributed to the history of our city, province, and country. Many of Canada’s most beloved figures rest there – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Foster Hewitt, Glenn Gould, and Timothy Eaton are just a few. Other, less known historical figures are buried there also – the first Canadian soldier killed in First World War and victims of the 1949 Noronic disaster. ...

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Mike Filey

More Toronto Sketches

Mike Filey

More Toronto Sketches

Mike Filey’s «The Way We Were» column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In More Toronto Sketches , the second volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the...

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Mike Filey

I Remember Sunnyside

Mike Filey

I Remember Sunnyside

First published in 1982, I Remember Sunnyside is a mine of golden memories, bringing back to life an earlier Toronto, only hints of which remain today. Like the city itself, Sunnyside was an everchanging landscape from its heady opening days in the early 1920s to its final sad demolition in the 1950s. The book captures the spirit of the best of times a magical era which can only be recaptured in memory and photographs. It also presents the reality of a newer Toronto where change, although...

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Mike Filey

From Horse Power to Horsepower

Mike Filey

From Horse Power to Horsepower

From the 1890s through the 1920s, as horse gave way to machine, the look of Toronto and the lifestyles of its inhabitants were irrevocably altered. From Horse Power to Horsepower is a pictorial history of the vehicles of the era.

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Mike Filey

Discover & Explore Toronto's Waterf...

Mike Filey

Discover & Explore Toronto's Waterfront

Out of print for many years, this much sought-after guide is being brought back just in time for the megacity's first summer. Mike Filey has expanded his original book to include areas that are now the waterfront of the new City of Toronto, stretching from the west end of Etobicoke to the Rouge River in the east. This valuable guide is an essential tool for anyone with an interest in Toronto: tourists, locals, and even out-of-towners who want to learn more about the lakeside sites of North...

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Mike Filey

A Toronto Album 2

Mike Filey

A Toronto Album 2

Winner of the 2013 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit A Toronto Album 2 , companion edition to Mike Filey's immensely popular original album, is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s. Among the 100-plus photographs is a quartet that shows the remarkable changes to Toronto's skyline over a half-century. Others capture the 1939 royal visit, steam trains in their twilight years, the evolution of the Hospital for Sick Children, a look at...

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Mike Filey

A Toronto Album

Mike Filey

A Toronto Album

Mike Filey’s collection of pictures of Toronto from the earliest days of photography had gained a reputation as one of the most interesting visual archives of the city’s history. This classic look at old Toronto portrays scenes of public life from 1860 to 1950, illustrating how dramatically the urban fabric and environment have changed. There are photographs of the beaches and the islands, of mud streets and gas lamps, of steam engines and trolley cars, amusement parks and the everchanging...

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