Toronto Harbour-The Passing Years

Toronto Harbour-The Passing Years

Toronto Harbour – The Passing Years, A Sesquicentennial Project

  • Created by: Toronto Harbour Commission
  • Date: 1985
  • Provenance: Scanned by Ted English; PDF by Eric Zhelka
  • Notes: Includes an extensive text and photo summary of Toronto Harbour and Island History and development.
    The last page recounts the sinking of the QCYC’s boathouse (1920).


You just fly – Iceboat

You just fly – Iceboat

‘You just fly,’ says Islander as he glides across Toronto harbor in his iceboat

Provenance: From the collection of Ted English
Digitized by: Ted English
Document: From the website of the Toronto Star; text reformatted
Date of document 01-04-2018
By-Line: Tamar Harris, Staff Reporter
Photograph by: Hannah Mittelstaedt

You just fly.pdf

When cars drove across the ice to the Island

When cars drove across the ice to the Island

When cars drove across the ice to the Island (3 pages)

Document: A Telegram Centennial Supplement, from an interview with Alan Howard, Curator of the marine Museum of Upper Canada

Date of document: 07-1-1967

Provenance: From the archives of Ted English

Digitized by: Ted English, from an original issue of the document