As part of last week’s column, I featured two early (c1909) colour Toronto postcards each depicting one of the city’s busiest intersections — Yonge and Queen Sts. — but seen from opposing directions, ...

Perusing old postcards of Toronto is a surefire way to invoke a heavy dose of nostalgia, but it's not as if the this bit of ephemera has completely disappeared. Sure, locals don't buy them, but pass ...

The Toronto Board of Trade is one of the city’s oldest institutions having been founded in 1845. Over the succeeding years its offices were located in series of different buildings scattered around ...

Toronto postcards from the 1980s are a bit more difficult to come by than you might think. While we're blessed with a huge collection of these bits of nostalgia from the 1970s, less have made their ...

A girl is pictured chasing a pig through a four-leaf clover in this English card sent out in 1908. (Toronto Public Library ) St. Patrick's Day celebrations are well underway, and while the holiday is ...

They are storytellers as much as they are collectors. Inquire about a postcard for sale at the annual Toronto Postcard Club show at the Old Mill Inn and you receive a free history lesson along with it ...

Toronto, home of the original “nutty” professor. Toronto, where American writer William Faulkner had a flying accident in 1918 as the drunken pilot of a First World War-era biplane.

At Queen Street, looking north on University Avenue, a portion of a building appears on the horizon. But it's not until College Street that the whole vista is revealed: a postcard-ready view Queen's ...