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Toronto Sketches 11: The Way We Were
Contributor(s): Filey, Mike (Author)
ISBN: 145970763X     ISBN-13: 9781459707634
Publisher: Dundurn Group
OUR PRICE:   $17.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Canada - General
- History | Social History
Dewey: 971.354
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.09" W x 8.97" (0.85 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Canadian
- Locality - Toronto, Ontario
- Geographic Orientation - Ontario
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

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 volumes have been published, each of which has attained great success.

Included in this latest compilation are stories about the controversial, though not altogether new, improvements to the TTC's St. Clair streetcar route, as well as accounts of such fondly remembered gasoline brands as Joy, B-A, and White Rose. Then there are those popular Great Lakes passenger ships that carried thousands to such foreign ports as Lewiston and Rochester in New York State. Recounting the unforgettable Toronto snowstorm of 1944 and the tragedy of the fire aboard the SS Noronic prove that not all memories are pleasant ones.


Contributor Bio(s): Filey, Mike: -

Mike Filey was born in Toronto in 1941. He has written more than two dozen books on various facets of Toronto's past and for more than thirty-five years has contributed a popular column, "The Way We Were," to the Toronto Sunday Sun. His Toronto Sketches series is more popular now than ever before.



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