- Accumulation, the State, and Community Struggle Impacts on Toronto's built Environment, 1945 to 1972
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 1985
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
- Along the Shore: Rediscovering Toronto's Waterfront Heritage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Toronto area residents and visitors who are curious about the history of some of the city's outstanding waterfront features will like M. Jane Fairburn's Along the Shore. The book offers a trove of historical information about four areas of this urban metropolis that have retained their natural beauty, including the Scarborough Shore, the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore.
- Alternative Schools in Toronto in the 1960s & early 1970s
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
In the 1960s, there was increasing criticism of the education system in Ontario, as in many other parts of the world, and a corresponding search for changes or alternatives.
- Alternative Toronto: 1980 - 1995
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2018
A community archive and historical map of Toronto’s alternative cultures, scenes and spaces of the 1980s and early 1990s.
- Approaches to Poverty in the Toronto School Board, 1970 - 1990
No Shallow Roots
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Published in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. December, 2009
- Ashbridge's Bay
An Anthology of Writings by Those Who Knew and Loved Ashbridge's Bay
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
The story of a great freshwater marsh destroyed by urbanization.
- Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
- The Beach in Pictures, 1793 - 1932
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Traces the chronological development of Toronto Beach (Beaches) neighbourhood, and highlights the area's important personalities, institutions, and landmarks. Includes origins of 28 Beach names.
- Bloor/Dufferin in Pictures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
The changes in this west end Toronto neighbourhood are traced from is 19th century beginnings as a gentleman's country retreat to today when it is one of the city's most multicultural areas.
- Buildings of Toronto
Resource Type: Website
- Cabbagetown
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Depicts life in the Toronto neighbourhood of Cabbagetown during the Depression.
- Cabbagetown in Pictures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
Photos of Toronto's historic Cabbagetown, with accompanying text.
- Cabbagetown People
Resource Type: Website
Cabbagetown People salutes not only famous persons, historical figures, or people who have distinguished themselves in their occupations or careers. It also honours the average person who has contributed to his or her community and has left a lasting legacy, either in a tangible way or in leading by example, inspiring those who follow.
- Cabbagetown, Remembered
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
Stories and photographs of the Toronto neighbourhood known as old Cabbagetown.
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- City of Toronto Archives
Resource Type: Organization
The official archives of the City of Toronto.
- A city that forgets its history is condemned to delete it
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
John Ralston Saul, author and a self-proclaimed “public intellectual,” has taken it upon himself to rescue Baldwin and LaFontaine from obscurity.
- College Street - Little Italy
Toronto's Renaissance Strip
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Community Control of the Schools
In New York and Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
George Martell believes that community control of schools is a complicated and difficult thing to achieve. He makes suggestions for organization of different structures using New York City schools as an example.
- Crestfallen Lane may soon commemorate piece of Seaton Village history
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The neighbourhood’s lane-naming project recalls a sad-eyed horse who helped end the local scourge of diphtheria.
- Crestwood Heights
A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- Davy the Punk
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2014
Bob Bossin's story of his father's life in Toronto's gambling underworld of the 1930s and 1940s.
- The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2022
An in-depth exploration of the Don Jail from its inception through jailbreaks and overcrowding to its eventual shuttering and rebirth.
- Doors Open Toronto
Illuminating the City's Great Spaces
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- The East York Workers' Association
A Response to the Great Depression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
An account of the activity of relief recipients in the township of East York, an eastern suburb of Toronto, in the 1930s.
- East York Workers' Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
- 'Equality Now!': Race, Racism and Resistance in the 1970s Toronto
PhD thesis, Queen's University, 2012
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- The Estates of Old Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Exploring Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Fighting Back
Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A detailed report on the conflict between city bureaucrats and residents of Trefann Court, a five-block area just east of downtown Toronto. Bent on tearing down as a step towards urban renewal, the planners and government officials met organized resistance by homeowners, landlords and tenants for over six years.
- From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
- Gooderham and Worts
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Gooderham and Worts was a Canadian company that was once the largest distiller of alcoholic beverages in Canada. Its former manufacturing facilities on the Toronto Waterfront are today the well-known Distillery District.
- Historial Maps of Toronto
A collection of maps to amuse, delight and inform
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2013
- Historical Atlas of Toronto
Resource Type: Book
- Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
New Communities and the Institutional Church
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
- History museums launch new program to address lack of representation in stories about Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Toronto's 10 history museums have launched a new program that aims to address the lack of representation in stories about the city. The program, called Awakenings, is a virtual series of art projects by artists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. The projects will be released in stages over the next couple of years.
- A History of Scarborough.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Bonis provides an account of the settlement, founding, and subsequent development of the Township of Scarborough, Ontario. His account begins with the indiginous populations and continues on until 1965.
- A History of Women's Rights in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Whether they were marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington or commemorating International Women's Day, women in Toronto have a longstanding tradition of advocating for gender equality across Canada.
- Hogtown
Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- Howard Huggett in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Interview May 24, 1989
Resource Type: Audio
Published: 1989
An interview with Canadian socialist Howard Huggett. An audio recording of this interview is in the Connexions Library & Archive.
- The Humber
Tales of a Canadian Heritage River
Resource Type: Book
- Humber Forks at Thistletown
Resource Type: Book
- Hurricane Hazel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Hurricane Hazel
Canada's Storm of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
- I Remember Sunnyside
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Jeannie's Demise
Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2020
- Les cimetières historiques de Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- A Little Wilderness
A Natural History of Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- The lost movie theatres of Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Photo essay.
- Lost Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Lost Toronto
Resource Type: Website
Photos of Toronto from days gone by.
- Mackenzie
A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
History has often dismissed William Lyon Mackenzie as a comical figure, or as the political hothead who bungled the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Former Toronto mayor John Sewell suggests he may actually be the best model this country has ever had of a responsible politician.
- Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto, 1960-1970
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2007
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
- Miriam Garfinkle Lane
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Miriam Garfinkle Lane is a laneway in the city of Toronto. The name honours Dr. Miriam Garfinkle (1954-2018), a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
- Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
This book is about a group of Mississaugans that few people who live in Mississauga, Ontario, today are likely familiar with. The people profiled are none other than a handful of the original inhabitants of much of the land that is now covered by the sprawling city of more than seven hundred thousand people in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- More Than an Island
A History of the Toronto Island
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A thorough history of the natural, social, political, and economic history of the Toronto Island.
- The Morningside World of Stuart McLean
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Radio essays by Stuart McLean.
- MyseumIntersections
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
- New website gives Torontonians a glimpse of the city's past
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Sidewalk Labs has unveiled a interactive map based on City of Toronto Archives images that allows people to view old pictures of Toronto by clicking on a map. However, the mapping is often wrong.
- Nexus
A magazine of land, corporate and community affairs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Focusing on the financial, development, and real estate industries in the urban arena, primarily in Toronto. Published in the 1970s. Some copies are available in the Connexions Archive.
- 1960s CounterCulture in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Amidst the overt political developments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a small but significant portion of youth became attracted to Beat or bohemian culture.
- The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
A history of the Ojibwa in Southern Ontario.
- Old Toronto Houses
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Photographs of old Toronto houses, with accompanying text.
- Over the Don
Resource Type: Book
- Parkdale in Pictures
Its Development to 1889
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
The formative years of a Toronto city neighbourhood.
- Pen Sketches of Historic Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
- Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
- Rear-View Mirror: A Snapshot of Toronto Activist Art (1976-1996)
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2014
A snapshot of Toronto activist art from the 1976 general strike to the 1996 Days of Action.
- Reclaiming the Don
An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Illuminates the impact of the Don River Valley on Toronto's development and unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city.
- Remembering the Don
A Rare Record of Earlier Times Within the Don River Valley
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
Memories of Toronto's Don River in days gone by.
- The Riot at Christie Pits
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Rochdale
The Runaway Collage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
- Rooming Houses in Toronto -- 1960s & 1970s
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Rooming houses in Toronto became a big issue in the late 1960s and early 1970s as housing priorities were changing rapidly. These dwellings were usually old houses that had been converted for single-room-occupancy tenants, who typically paid weekly rent and shared the bathroom and kitchen facilities with four or more (unrelated) tenants.
- Sackville Street School
Resource Type: Article
A brief history of Sackville Street School in Toronto.
- Sci-fi author Judith Merril and the very real story of Toronto's Spaced Out Library
A prolific author and pioneer Merril's donation of 5,000 items started the Toronto Public Library's massive speculative fiction collection.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The story of Judith Merril's work promoting and developing Science-fiction writing in Canada, and the founding of the Rochdale Library, which later became the Spaced Out Library.
- Setting the Table
An Anthology of Community Stories
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Reminiscences about food.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Seven News: Principles & Purposes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
Statement of principles of Seven News, a community newspaper.
- Seven News: The Story of a Community Newspaper
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years.
- Sewell, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
- The Short Happy Walks of Max MacPherson
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Harry Bruce walks the streets of Toronto.
- The Sociology of Political Sects
Four sects in Toronto in 1968-1969
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1972
- Spadina Labour Lyceum
Resource Type: Film/Video
346 Spadina
The Labor Lyceum was the hub of social and political life of several needle trade unions.
- Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
History of the Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC), which was formed to oppose the proposed Spadina Expressway that was supposed to be bulldozed through the middle of downtown Toronto.
- The Streets Belong to the People
Expressway Disputes in Canada, c. 1960 - 75
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
PhD Thesis, McMaster University, 2012
- A study of urban communes and co-ops inToronto
MA Thesis, University of Toronto, 1973
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
- SUPA, Selma, and Stevenson
The Politics of Solidarity in mid-1960s Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Published in Journal of Canadian Studies, 41 (Spring 2010)
- Todmorden Mills
A Human and Natural History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
An urban natural history pamphlet.
- Toronto: Carved in Stone
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
An illustrated survey of Toronto's buildings featuring decorative stonework.
- Toronto Necropolis Cemetery
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
A historic cemetery, located between Sumach Street and the Don River, opened in 1850, and the final resting place of people who were originally buried in Potter's Field.
- Toronto Rocks
The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Toronto’s urban geology.
- Toronto Since 1918
An Illustrated History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- The Toronto That Used To Be
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
- Toronto's Historic Cemeteries
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
A overview of Toronto's early cemeteries.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- Toronto's Spadina Ave. when it was a quiet rural location
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
- Trails of the Don
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Charles Sauriol recalls Toronto's Don Valley.
- The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity, the New Left, and the Hip counterculture in Toronto, 1965-1975
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2021
- The University of Toronto
A History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- Up Against City Hall
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic politics, and gives behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the major battles at City Hall.
- Urban amenities; erotic anxieties
Baths, lavatories, and the YMCA: The politics of bodies in civic space
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A history of public baths, in particular public baths and similar spaces in Toronto in the last century, and the changing perceptions and uses of such spaces by the public, in particular the treatment of private acts within public spaces.
- Utopia: Towards a New Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Torontonians begin to see their city as a place of possibility and potential. Visions of a truly workable, liveable and world-class city are once again dancing in citizens' heads. "uTOpia" aims to capture and chronicle that spirit, collecting writing by many of the people inspired by and involved in the developing projects.
- The Valley of the Humber 1615-1903
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- A Village Grows on Markham Street
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
- Villages of Etobicoke
Resource Type: Book
- Vintage Toronto
Resource Type: Website
Photos of old Toronto.
- The Ward
The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto’s first 'priority neighbourhood.'
- When a hurricane swept through Toronto, this firefighter made the heartbreaking first rescue attempt
Hurricane Hazel caused 81 deaths and more than $1B in damages in 2017 dollars
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
On the wet and windy evening of Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel was bearing down on the city. The fire department was to take no unnecessary risks in the storm, which had already claimed more than 400 lives in Haiti and close to 100 in the United States. As it spiralled towards Canada, Hazel merged with a cold front, intensifying the system.
- Wolfe Erlichman in conversation with Ulli Diemer
October 26, 2016
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
An interview with Wolfe Erlichman, who worked as a community worker/organizer in Trefann Court in Toronto in the late 1960s. An audio recording of the interview, and a transcript, are held in the Connexions Archive.
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
- Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Yorkville in Pictures, 1853 - 1883
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Outlines Yorkville's history, buildings, and people, especially during its thirty years as a village prior to its 1883 annexation to Toronto.
- Yorkville in the 1960s
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
A section of urban Toronto that was the centre of the counterculture in the mid-1960s.
- ZeitagTO
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2011
When you’re out and about in a city, do you ever wonder what it looked like forty, fifty, a hundred years ago? Zeitag TO pinpoints where you are on an interactive city map of Toronto and displays historical photographs nearby. In the downtown core, where photographs exist close together, you can create your own walking tour of the past. Farther afield, on the Toronto Islands or out beyond the first subway line, images show a way of life now completely gone. The first in a planned series of apps for sites around the world, Zeitag TO includes more than five hundred photographs of the city dating from the nineteenth century to the 1980s. Each is shown with the date and street.
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