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Nov 11, 2010 · One of the Poppy File’s most interesting items is an article and accompanying map that uses typed index cards – created by the Toronto city clerk’s office and now housed in the city archives – to trace the residential location of the city’s war casualties from 1942 to 1945 on a contemporary map of Toronto. These index cards formed the ...
In 2005, the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, we can look at these photographs, and remember. Dorothy McCabe, Queenie Edward, and Edith Allen knitting in a Red Cross workroom. March 2, 1943. Photographer: John H. Boyd. City of Toronto Archives. Fonds 1266, Item 83771.
Nov 11, 2019 · Here's a look at wartime Toronto during the First and Second World Wars. A tank crushes a car in a Victory Bond drive on University Avenue during the First World War. (City of Toronto...
Apr 8, 2013 · I recently launched Historical Maps of Toronto, featuring simple and free access to a selection of notable maps of my fair city.
Canada: past, present and future. Being a historical, geographical, geological and statistical account of Canada West. 1851. SMITH, William Henry of Toronto. Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto. A collection of historical sketches of the old town of York from 1792 until 1833 (till 1837) and of Toronto from 1834 to 1893 (to 1914). Also ...
Located in the front lawn of the East York Civic Centre this cenotaph, built in 1948, commemorates soldiers who fought in the First World War, the Second World War, and the Korean War and Canada’s various peacekeeping missions.
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War on the Homefront. During the war, civilians played a critical role in building ships, aircraft, tanks and munitions needed at the front in Europe. As so many young men were serving overseas, women were recruited from all over Canada to fill manufacturing and munitions positions.
