Wednesday, July 20, 2011  Photo: Rowing Around The Islands in
1908  Derek Flack has a tendency to nail it over at blogTO when
he posts galleries of old Toronto photos. His most recent
collection is a visual history of the Islands, stretching all
the way back to the 1830s. In those early days, the Islands
weren't islands at all, but a sandy peninsula still connected to
the mainland. Giantass storms in the 1850s finally severed them
from the rest of the city. I've re-posted what might be my
favourite photo from his gallery — of these folks rowing
sometime around 1908 — but, really, you're going to want to
scroll through the whole collection to get a sense of how one of
our city's awesomest features has evolved over the years. And
you can do that by clicking right here.  Thursday, July 14, 2011
An Army Gathers On Yonge Street  This isn't Yonge Street. It's
Quebec. Louis-Joseph Papineau speaks to L'Assemblée des six-
comtés, 1837  This is the fourth in a series of posts about
William Lyon Mackenzie and the birth