Time Capsule

CAHIERS DU CINÉMA is France’s oldest film magazine. Here we have included an excerpt from issue number 144, published in 1963, which contained an interview with Jean Rouch. Jean Rouch is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France, and in this interview he talks about the influence of the National Film Board…

How to use Canada’s First Subway is a pamphlet that was distributed by the Toronto Transit Commission in 1954, a portion of which is included in the pages to follow. It provides instructions on how to find subway entrances, use turnstiles, and obtain transfers, among other things. Credit: City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series…

67 Homes for Canadians is a book of house plans published by the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) in 1947. Among the sixty-seven plans were many iterations of the one-and-a-half storey strawberry box house. One of the most influential house plan books after the war, 67 Homes is said to have shaped house designs…

An Excerpt from Chapter 3 IT WAS IN VISITING THE INTERIOR that we always suffered most. I will here narrate a single circumstance which will convey a correct idea of the sufferings to which the Indians were often exposed. To collect furs of different kinds for the traders, we had to travel far into the…

Toronto Harbour CommissionThe Toronto Harbour Commission was established in 1911 in the interest of regulating, developing, and expanding Toronto’s waterfront. It spent a decade laying the groundwork for Sunnyside Amusement Park, which opened to the public on June 28th, 1922.

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, 1984-92-141. https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=3839577 Rochdale CollegeRead all about me: https://torontojournal.com/issue3-rochdale/

WAKEFIELD WHITEOAK ran on and on, faster and faster, till he could run no farther. He did not know why he had suddenly increased his speed. He did not even know why he ran. When, out of breath, he threw himself face down on the new spring sod of the meadow, he completely forgot that…

with an introduction by Bridget Fairfax. It is a well-known fact that Torontonians through the decades have shared a common unfavourable trait – they have always discarded their history. Take Fort York, which arguably marks the beginning of the metropolis we know today. It had to ward off no less than three destructive attempts: 1)…