The Toronto Dreams Project Historical Ephemera Blog
Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Con Artist Harry Decker — Toronto's First Star Baseball Catcher

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Toronto was celebrating. The 1887 baseball season was over, and the city had just won its first championship. The team was packed with be...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

My Favourite Memory of Roy Halladay

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My favourite memory of Roy Halladay came on a night he lost an unimportant game in the middle of an unimportant season. The Jays were p...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Dream 24 "The Herd of Lambton Hall" (George Brown, 1880)

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Seven weeks after being shot by a disgruntled Globe employee, George Brown dreamed that a herd of cows had come to speak with him on his ...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Launch Party! Come Celebrate The Toronto Book of the Dead!

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After years of researching, writing, and editing, The Toronto Book of the Dead is officially being released this weekend! And you can al...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

A Tour of Toronto's Most, Uh, Complicated Statues

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Most of Toronto's statues feature dead White dudes and were erected by other dead White dudes to celebrate figures whose histories a...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

The Bizarre History of "O Canada"

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"O Canada" has a long and bizarre history. The song didn't become our national anthem until 1980, but it was written a hund...
Friday, August 11, 2017

The Imperial Airship Scheme — A Blimp Above 1930s Toronto

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In 1928, Germany launched the world's greatest airship, the Graf Zeppelin . For the next decade, it would make hundreds of flights all...
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