Gentlemen of England vs. Toronto Cricket Club, 1872
Canada
ethnic identity
culture
cricket
Match 2-4 September 1872, at Toronto Cricket Club grounds n. side College st. e. of St. George St.
Rolph, Smith and Co. Toronto
Designed & Lithographed by Rolph, Smith and Co. Toronto, “Gentlemen of England vs. Toronto Cricket Club ,” TPL Virtual Exhibits,
Toronto Public Library, Toronto Reference Library Blog, "That's not cricket...or is it?", online: <a href="http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/trl/2011/06/its-not-cricket-or-is-it.html" target="_blank">http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/trl/2011/06/its-not-cricket-or-is-it.html</a>
Toronto Public Library Virtual Exhibit, "Toronto's Sporting Past: Cricket", online: <a href="http://omeka.tplcs.ca/virtual-exhibits/exhibits/show/sports-history/field-sports/cricket" target="_blank">http://omeka.tplcs.ca/virtual-exhibits/exhibits/show/sports-history/field-sports/cricket</a>
Rolph, Smith and Co, Toronto,
1875
Public Domain
JPEG
Still image
Lithotint
The Views are Different Here
Canada, Toronto, diversity, tolerance
This video was produced by Tourism Toronto to promote the city, which typically bills itself as being diverse and tolerant. Tourism Toronto provides the following description: "The views are different in Toronto. A city where all flavours are welcome, where beauty has many faces, where it's okay to let your guard down. "
Tourism Toronto
Youtube
Tourism Toronto
Tourism Toronto
March 5, 2017
(c) Tourism Toronto
Standard Youtube licence
moving image
embedded video
hyperlink
English
moving image
Blog Post: First Stories: "Places: Lake Ontario"
Canada
Ontario: Toronto
Lake Ontario
Indigenous legal tradition
Indigenous land rights
This blog post tells the story of Lake Ontario. The blog as a whole focuses on the Aboriginal history of Toronto using story telling.
Jennie Fiddes
Jennie Fiddes, First StoryTO, blog post: "Lake Ontario": <a href="https://firststoryblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/lake-ontario/" target="_blank">https://firststoryblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/lake-ontario/</a>
First Story Toronto: Exploring the Aboriginal History of Toronto, website: <a href="https://firststoryblog.wordpress.com/aboutfirststory/" target="_blank">https://firststoryblog.wordpress.com/aboutfirststory/</a>
April 29, 2014
First Story TO
(c) Jennie Fiddes
(c) First Story Toronto
First Story Toronto: Exploring the Aboriginal History of Toronto, website: <a href="https://firststoryblog.wordpress.com/aboutfirststory/" target="_blank">https://firststoryblog.wordpress.com/aboutfirststory/</a>
Hyperlink
English
Blog post
Riot at Christie Pits
Canada
Sports
history
human rights
riots
anti-Semitism
This is the only known photograph of the riots at Christie Pits in Toronto, 1933. Here is a description of the event provided by The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, online: <a href="https://humanrights.ca/riot-christie-pits" target="_blank">https://humanrights.ca/riot-christie-pits</a> <br /><br />"
<blockquote><span>On the night of August 16, 1933, after a softball game at Toronto’s Christie Pits Park, a gang of young men unfurled a white banner. On it was a black swastika, symbolic of Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews. It was directed at a team of mostly Jewish teens from Toronto’s Harbord Playground. Anti-Semitism had been mounting in Toronto, then an overwhelmingly British, Protestant city. Groups called “swastika clubs” had formed to intimidate Jews. The banner sparked a riot. Youth from Italian and Ukrainian backgrounds rallied to the Jewish side. The six-hour brawl marked a turning point for resistance to anti-Semitism. It led to a Toronto ban on the swastika."</span></blockquote>
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Description of the Toronto Public Archives record, online: <a href="http://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-16c19056:15abbf4ebfb:-7c6a&UniqueID=6000_1580_11104_4&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(SearchRequest)%5B0%5D=&ProcessID=&1POI31_240=-KEY_46341&2POI1_51345=30791&Logic=1%20AND%202" target="_blank">http://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-16c19056:15abbf4ebfb:-7c6a&UniqueID=6000_1580_11104_4&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(SearchRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=&1POI31_240=-KEY_46341&2POI1_51345=30791&Logic=1%20AND%202</a><br /><br /><br /><table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="73%">
<blockquote><span style="font-size:small;">Item is an image showing the riot that took place at Christie Pits (Willowvale Park) on August 16, 1933. The riot, which lasted six hours, broke out after a quarter-final baseball game at Christie Pits between two local clubs: Harbord Playground, predominantly Jewish, and St. Peter's, a baseball team sponsored by a church at Bathurst and Bloor streets. The night of the riot was the second game between Harbord and St. Peter's. Two nights earlier, at the first game of the series, a swastika had been displayed. After the final out of the second game, Pit Gang members displayed a blanket with a large swastika painted on it. A number of Jewish boys and young men who had heard about the previous Swastika incident rushed the Swastika sign to destroy it. Supporters of both sides (including Italians who supported the Jews) from the surrounding area joined in, and a fight started. No one was killed in the riot.</span></blockquote>
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</tr></tbody></table><br /><blockquote><span>The riot revealed the xenophobic attitudes toward Jews and other non-Anglo immigrants among Anglo Canadians. Jews represented the largest minority in Toronto in 1933 and were thus a target of xenophobic residents. In August 2008, a Heritage Toronto plaque was presented to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the riot.</span></blockquote>
Photographer: Unknown
"Anti-Semitic Riot at Christie Pits Park", Toronto Archives, Fonds 1266, Globe and Mail collection, Item 30791, online: <a href="http://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-16c19056:15abbf4ebfb:-7c6a&UniqueID=6000_1580_11104_4&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(SearchRequest)%5B0%5D=&ProcessID=&1POI31_240=-KEY_46341&2POI1_51345=30791&Logic=1%20AND%202" target="_blank">http://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/request/Action?ClientSession=-16c19056:15abbf4ebfb:-7c6a&UniqueID=6000_1580_11104_4&TemplateProcessID=6000_1580_11104&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(SearchRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=&1POI31_240=-KEY_46341&2POI1_51345=30791&Logic=1%20AND%202</a>
"Riot at Christie Pits", The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, online: <a href="https://humanrights.ca/riot-christie-pits">https://humanrights.ca/riot-christie-pits</a>
Toronto Archives
August 16, 1933
Public Domain
Credit: City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1266, Item 30791
"Riot at Christie Pits", The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, online: <a href="https://humanrights.ca/riot-christie-pits">https://humanrights.ca/riot-christie-pits</a>
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English
Photograph
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1266, Item 30791
G20 Riots in Toronto: Burning police cruiser
Canada
Protests
G20 Toronto
G20 RIOTS SAT 26 JUNE 2010 - Burning police cruiser at the intersection of Bay and King Streets in the heart of Toronto's Financial District
Mark Mozaz Wallis
Mark Mozaz Wallis via Wikimedia: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AG-20_Toronto_June_2010_(28).jpg" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AG-20_Toronto_June_2010_(28).jpg</a>
Self-published
Wikimedia
June 2010
By Mark Mozaz Wallis [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
image file/jpeg
photograph
"People boxed in by riot police at Queen and Spadina"
Canada
Protests
G20 Toronto
This photograph captures police using "kettling", a controversial crowd control technique that involves boxing people into an intersection and slowing moving inward so that people are crowded tightly together. <br /><br />Photographer Jonas Naimark provides this description via Flikr [<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasnaimark/4739841273/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasnaimark/4739841273/</a>]:<br /><br /><blockquote><span>The last day of the G20, protesters ended up at Queen and Spadina. Soon after stopping the crowd police boxed them in and began grabbing them out 1 by 1 to arrest people. They were standing there peacefully, many people weren't even protesting they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm not sure what the police's plan was. Shortly after this pic was taken it started to pour rain. Many of these people were forced to wait for hours in the rain in restraints.</span></blockquote>
Jonas Naimark
Jonas Naimark via Flikr: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasnaimark/4739841273/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasnaimark/4739841273/</a>
Jonas Naimark via Wikimedia: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AToronto_G20_Protests.tif" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AToronto_G20_Protests.tif</a>
Self published via Flikr
June 27, 2010
By Jonas Naimark [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
image file/jpeg
English
Photograph
Stained glass window, City Hall
Canada
Courts
Toronto City Hall
City halls
This is a photograph of a stained glass window in Toronto's City Hall
William James
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 323
William James [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AStained_glass_window_at_City_Hall.jpg
1910
Public Domain
Credit: City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 323
William James [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
image file/jpeg
Photograph
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 323
Stained glass window, City Hall
Canada
Courts
Toronto City Hall
City halls
This is a photograph of a stained glass window in Toronto's City Hall
William James
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 323
William James [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AStained_glass_window_at_City_Hall.jpg
1910
Public Domain
Credit: City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 323
William James [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
image file/jpeg
Photograph
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 323
Original plan of the Toronto Purchase from the Indians, 1787-1805.
Canada
Indigenous Peoples
Toronto
Caption pasted on this item:<br /><blockquote>Original Plan of the Toronto Purchase from the Indians, 1787-1805. Showing the 250,808 acres, of which Toronto occupies (1911) 10,477, sold by the Indians to the Government for $9,500.</blockquote>
Unknown
Via Toronto Public Library Archives: <a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-MAPS-R-125&R=DC-MAPS-R-125&searchPageType=vrl" target="_blank">http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-MAPS-R-125&R=DC-MAPS-R-125&searchPageType=vrl</a>
1911
Public Domain
image file/jpeg
English
Map
Manuscript, colour; mounted on linen.
Toronto Reference Library call no: MsX.1918.1.6
Police line, advancing Queens Park Circle West side
Canada
Policing
G20 Protests
This is a photograph of police at the G20 protests in Toronto taken as the police were advancing on protesters. The protesters had gathered just south of Queens Park, Toronto, which had been designated a "Free Speech Zone". Police, however, ordered the protesters to move out of the area. Police then formed a line and began to advance toward protesters, forcing them to withdraw.
Theresa Miedema
Theresa Miedema, Private Collection
June 2010
Theresa Miedema CC-By-4.0
image file/jpeg
Photograph
St James Cathedral, Toronto
Canada
Toronto
Churches
A photograph of St James Cathedral in Toronto, ON
Theresa Miedema
Theresa Miedema, Private collection
Dec. 24, 2015
Theresa Miedema CC-By-4.0
image file/jpeg
English
Reflection of St. James Cathedral, Toronto
Canada
Toronto
churches
Photograph of St. James Cathedral, West Side, reflected in building
Theresa Miedema
Theresa Miedema, Private collection
Dec. 24, 2015
Theresa Miedema CC-By-4.0
image file/jpeg
English
Dish with one spoon Wampum Belt
Canada
Indigenous Peoples
This is a replica of the One Dish One Spoon Wampum, which established an agreement to share resources of territories in vast regions of the Great Lakes peacefully among a number of Indigenous nations, including the Anishinaabek and Haudenosaunee.
Muskrat Magazine: http://muskratmagazine.com/toronto-aka-tkaronto-passes-new-city-council-protocol/