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Toronto's Founding Dog & How He Almost Got Eaten It was the summer of 1793. The summer our city was founded. On an early Tuesday morning, as the late July sun rose above Lake Ontario, a...

Dream 18 "Russell Creek" (Peter Russell, 1799) Peter Russell dreamed that his sister Elizabeth had fallen ill. She’d taken a drink from the creek that ran through their property at Pet...

Toronto in 1851 — a snapshot of the booming city at the dawn of a new age In 1851, the year this painting was painted, Toronto was beginning to boom. It had been less than 60 years since the first British soldie...

The True Story of Toronto's Island Ghost They say that on some dark nights, as an eerie mist creeps over the Toronto islands, you can still hear him moaning somewhere in the dist...

Samuel Jarvis' Deadly Duel Samuel Jarvis in the 1850s In 1781, William Jarvis got shot. They say it's probably the best thing that ever happened to him. Before...

Dream 14 "The Great Fire" (Lucie Blackburn, 1849) Lucie Blackburn dreamed that she saw the Devil on King Street. She was crossing the road and there he was, leaning up against the wall of...

A Thought About Stephen Harper from 1849 The day Canada became a democracy, a mob of angry Tories burned the Parliament Buildings down. They were mad because the Governor General...

Dream 10 "The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern" (William Lyon Mackenzie, 1837) The night before the Battle of Montgomery’s Tavern, William Lyon Mackenzie dreamed that someone was shaking him awake. Something strange ...

The Jarvis Family: 60 Years Fighting Revolutionaires And Radicals — And How It All Backfired UK TOUR DAY THIRTEEN (LONDON): I returned to London for the last few days of the Toronto Dreams Project's UK Tour. And on my first day ba...

Dream 15 "The Winter Beaver" (Anna Jameson, 1837) Anna Jameson was lulled to sleep by the jingle of sleigh bells and the rocking of her sled as she was pulled through the slumbering pine ...

The Bloody Burlington Races & The War for Lake Ontario They appeared out of the darkness, looming above the waves. Ten warships sailing across Lake Ontario, far out in the water south of Toron...

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