I've created a Toronto History "starter pack" on the other site — which helps people find accounts to follow. So, if you're looking to make the switch, you'll have an easy time finding people who write about the history of our city:

It will still explore stories about the city's past — along with local heritage news and event listings:

I'm celebrating the third anniversary of my Toronto history newsletter by giving it a fresh name. The Toronto History Weekly is becoming The Toronto Time Traveller!. (Link in the replies.)

The Great Depression was at its height in 1932 and, as Christmas approached, Donald Munro was out of work — so instead of buying his kids a gift, he made them one. It proved to be an international sensation. New post on the humble birth of table hockey:

This photo was taken on New Year's Eve at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto — revellers ringing in 1942. It turns out there's a wild story behind it: a tragic tale filled with scandal, war, Broadway stars & betrayal. Shared it in my annual thread over on the blue site.

My favourite stories from The Toronto History Weekly this year — including:. The 9-year-old rebel who blazed the way for women's hockey. The FBI raid on Donald Sutherland's house. A brief history bald eagles in Toronto. And much more:

He was a kid from New Toronto, born on a kitchen table in the Depression, who dropped out of high school but would become a professor, teacher, author & one of the world’s leading champions for inclusive education — and also helped me fall in love with the history of our city.

My father passed away a couple of weeks ago, and Christmas Eve was always the biggest night of the year at our house — so, today, I wrote about him:

It begins tonight! Toronto stories about people fighting oppression, overthrowing tyranny, working to help others, and striving to make the world a better place.

Just two more days until "A History of Hope & Resistance in Toronto" begins!.

Doctor Who was created by a Canadian. I shared my big, wild annual thread about him — and how he ended up as a possible target for kidnapping by the FLQ — on the other place: Follow me there if you'd like to continue following my work!

A History of Hope & Resistance in Toronto — my new online course — starts next week!. All over Zoom, recorded if you have to miss any of it, and pay-what-you-like:

Was originally going to do something else, but this felt timely for some reason. PWYC.

Announcing A HISTORY OF HOPE & RESISTANCE IN TORONTO — my next new online course. Filled with stories about people fighting oppression, overthrowing tyranny, working to help others & making the world a better place:

One spring day 79 years ago, a Canadian medic leapt out of a plane high above Nazi Germany & began floating toward the ground. Shared my annual thread about Toppy Topham — and how he died — on the other site this year:

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