About This Gal

Guildwood Park
2017 Nominee for the Heritage Toronto award for Public History
2018, 2019 Nominee for Architectural Conservancy Ontario’s Media Award
Author of Toronto: City of Commerce – Available for pre-order via:
I’m a Toronto girl, born and raised, and I love my city.  But more than the Toronto you find today – with its spiky glass towers scratching at the sky – I love the bones of the place it once was.  The human sized buildings, closer to the ground and shaped of wood, brick and stone, decorated with tile, columns and gargoyles and claimed by names etched deeply to fend off the ages.  They’re becoming rarer than their bland, glass brethren but there are still many of these beauties to be discovered.  Finding them and rooting out the names of the men, women and industries once housed within gives me the greatest thrill – and that joy of discovery is what I hope to share with you here. 

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  3. Have you heard of the “Butcher’s of Toronto ? We have had a trophy presented by them “To the Toronto Rifle Club, Won by Dr. A. May Esqr., St.Catharines, Toronto, Nov. 1861” This trophy was given to us at the Mayholme Foundation recently and I have been trying to obtain more information concerning it. This Club may have joined the Canadian Rifle Association which formed in 1868. Dr. A. Andrew May is supposed to have won a cup from this group as well.
    Read “Digging Deeper” in Jan 30, 2022 Star and found it very interesting.
    Corlene Taylor,

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    1. So pleased to hear you found the Star article of interest! I’m not familiar with the Butchers of Toronto, but am now intrigued. Thank you for the tip! I’m going to have to look into it – bet there’s a great story there. All the best, Katherine

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