March 28, 2024

Articles by Simon Wallace

A Spy Drone For The Rest of Us

By Simon Wallace | January 10th, 2012
Find out exactly what your neighbours are doing. Read More

Toronto Gambling Dens: New and Old

By Simon Wallace | January 9th, 2012
Read about Toronto's gambling dens: the ones from a long time ago, and the ones here todayRead More

The Reason Frozen Food Was Invented? Toronto.

By Simon Wallace | January 6th, 2012
Were it not for 1920s Toronto, it's likely frozen pizza wouldn't existRead More

Why Grenadier Pond is called Grenadier Pond, and a Suicide.

By Simon Wallace | November 15th, 2011
The poetic and prosaic theories of drowning in the muddy "bottomless" waterhole.Read More

Slavery and Abolition, Circa 19th Century Toronto

By Simon Wallace | October 31st, 2011
On the end of slavery in Upper Canada, and Toronto's not always warm welcome for escaped slaves.Read More

Toronto's Would-Be Martyr of the 1837 Rebellion

By Simon Wallace | October 26th, 2011
Back when Toronto was at war, the establishment feared a young woman, convicted of murder, might become a martyr for reform.Read More

Occupied Toronto, Circa 1996

By Simon Wallace | October 18th, 2011
If the demonstrators participating in Occupy Toronto are looking to antecedents for inspiration, they might consider October 26, 1996.Read More

Night and the City and Toronto's Hidden History

By Simon Wallace | October 12th, 2011
The history of Toronto's night is often the most revealing part of the city's narrative. The day is progress, a better work day, a more perfectly managed city; the night is chaos and creativity.Read More

When Toronto Really Was a Bike Town

By Simon Wallace | October 3rd, 2011
The omnipresence of the bicycle and bike culture in 1890s Toronto far surpasses anything we know today. But remarkably, the political issues associated with cycling are almost unchanged.Read More
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