Download or read book Toronto Sketches written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are collections of Mike Fileys best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, "The Way We Were."

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 5 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are collections of Mike Fileys best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, "The Way We Were."

Download or read book More Toronto Sketches written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In More Toronto Sketches, the second volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer.

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 8 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toronto Sun columnist Mike Filey is back with Toronto Sketches 8, in the series that captures the people, politics, and architecture of Toronto's past with photographs and anecdotes that will change the way you see the city. The book takes us to the time of Toronto's original horse-drawn streetcar, the construction of Maple Leaf Gardens, and more.-These are collections of Mike Filey's best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, "The Way We Were."

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 5 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 5, the fifth volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns from 1996 and 1997. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches 5 is a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer.

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 6 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Old Toronto never lose favour with the city’s nostalgia buffs, and as long as Mike Filey continues to provide us with his "The Way We Were" columns, no one’s appetite will have to go unsatisfied. When Mike’s Toronto Sunday Sun columns were first brought together in Toronto Sketches, demand was so high that it prompted a second collection ... then a third ... and a fourth ... and a fifth. Now, for 2000, Mike has once again brought together some of the best of his Toronto Sunday Sun columns for Toronto Sketches 6, the latest installment in the wildly popular series. This time around, Mike takes us to a performance at the Royal Alexandra Theatre by Al Jolson, the opening of Sunnybrook Hospital, a game between the baseball Leafs and the Havana Sugar Kings - with Fidel Castro throwing out the first pitch - and many more famous, notorious, and entertaining episodes in the history of this great city.

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 4 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 4, the fourth volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer.

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 3 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are collections of Mike Fileys best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, "The Way We Were."

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 12 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey brings the stories of Toronto, 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 paper’s first edition hit newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has had 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 eleven volumes have been published to great success, with over 5,000 copies sold. In his latest compilation, Filey recounts the story of the controversial (though not altogether surprising) renovations at Union Station, as well as the history of Toronto’s own Kennedy family.

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 8 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toronto Sun columnist Mike Filey is back with Toronto Sketches 8, the series that captures the people, politics, and architecture of Toronto’s past with photographs and anecdotes that will change the way you see the city forever. The book brings us back to the time of Toronto’s original horse-drawn streetcar, the construction of Maple Leaf Gardens, and other memories of Toronto, many of which show how history repeats itself, as in the gas price wars of the early 20th century or the debate in 1911 over building a bridge to Toronto island.

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 7 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey is back again with another installment in the popular Toronto Sketches series. Mike’s nostalgic look at the city’s past combines legend, personal anecdotes, and photographs to chronicle the life of an ever-changing city. Among the stories in this volume, Mike looks back to the introduction of the "horseless carriage." He laments the loss of great movie houses of the past - the University, Shea’s Hippodrome, the Tivoli - and applauds those looking to save the Eglinton Theatre, and he tells the history of the King Edward Hotel as it enters its 100th year. Toronto Sketches 7 is a valuable addition to the collection of any fan of Toronto history.

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 10 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th volume of Toronto Sketches highlights some of Torontos greatest landmarks and steps back in time to revisit the Avrocar, Miss Toronto of 1926, and The Hollywood, the citys first talkie theatre.

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 3 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 3, the third volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer.

Download or read book Mike Filey s Toronto Sketches Books 10 12 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-10-24 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey brings the stories of Toronto, 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 paper’s first edition hit newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has had 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 eleven volumes have been published to great success, with over 5,000 copies sold. Includes: - Toronto Sketches 10 - Toronto Sketches 11 - Toronto Sketches 12

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 9 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are collections of Mike Fileys best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, "The Way We Were."

Download or read book Toronto Sketches 7 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are collections of Mike Fileys best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, "The Way We Were."

Download or read book Mike Filey s Toronto Sketches written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special collection gathers the volumes ten and eleven of the Toronto Sketches series, a fascinating compendium of Mike Filey's columns about the people and history of Toronto. These are essential reading for history buffs and for people who want to understand their city.