How Jean Geeson Saw the Fort In the July issue of this newsletter, The Friends proposed that named for
Topic: historic drawing
49 articles tagged historic drawing
May 12, 2026
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Alston, Sandra
The first Toronto Athletic Games were held, beginning on 11 September 1839, under the sponsorship of prominent Toronto citizens
May 12, 2026
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Larry, Ostola
Commons over the passage of a bill allowing the state to imprison and hold an individual for up to
May 12, 2026
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Conrad, Heidenreich
The Great Sail succeeded his father, Keenes. At a ceremony at Fort Canis took up two-year-old Francis by the
May 12, 2026
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Bricker, Darrell
Jonathon Riley. A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock. London: Frontline Books / Montreal:
May 12, 2026
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Archaeologist, David Spittal, the City's Culture division
The Great East Gate Of Fort York by David Spittal, Archaeologist with the City’s Culture division When George
May 12, 2026
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Friends of Fort York
hese two watercolours were painted about 1912 T by the Toronto illustrator Owen Staples (18661949), a close friend and
May 12, 2026
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Ewan Wardle
itled “Entrance to the Port of Toronto,” this delightful watercolour is one of more than 150 works created by
May 12, 2026
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Friends of Fort York
12 The Fife and Drum even then, but the profits of that development were denied to the Ordnance, preventing
May 12, 2026
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Partington, Tony
his article will outline British and Canadian strategy, developed in the decade following the War of 1812, to T
May 12, 2026
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Kevin, Plummer
Among the midway amusements, model airplanes buzzing around the Coliseum, and other attractions on Children’s Day at the 1936
May 11, 2026
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James, Scott
From 1794 until 1863 today’s Victoria Memorial Square, just east of Fort York, was the cemetery for the garrison.
May 11, 2026
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Carter, John C
While the Dictionary of Canadian Biography described Thomas J. Sutherland (1801-1852) as a “Patriot filibuster and author” http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/sutherland_thomas_jefferson_8E.html, his
May 11, 2026
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Friends of Fort York
The first Fort York, built by John Graves Simcoe in 1793, had mostly been demolished by the end of
May 11, 2026
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Otto, Stephen
Between 1802 and 1837 Gustavus Nicolls of the Royal Engineers served twenty-seven years over three tours of duty in
May 11, 2026
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Russell, Stephen Otto, Victor
One hundred and seventy years ago, in May 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin led a Royal Navy expedition of
May 11, 2026
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Reeves, Wayne
Soldiers had fewer recreational options. Drinking was a key activity– in barracks and canteens within the garrisons, and at
May 11, 2026
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Friends of Fort York
To illustrate, a recent opportunity to acquire an important oil portrait of Frances Battersby at a Toronto auction house
May 11, 2026
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Brian Leigh, Dunnigan
John R. Grodzinski. Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and 1812. Foreword by the War of Donald E. Graves.
May 11, 2026
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Friends of Fort York
Inspired by Kevin Plummer’s article on the Toronto Tandem Club in the last issue of Fife and Drum, the
May 11, 2026
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Reeves, Wayne
An exhibit commemorating the Bicentennial of the War of 1812 opened recently at the Market Gallery. Curated by Richard
May 11, 2026
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Otto, Stephen
Twenty-two miners and five soldiers died in an armed uprising at the Eureka goldfield at Ballarat, near Melbourne, Australia,
May 11, 2026
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Gerrard, Richard
The gift to the Friends of Fort York of Charles Pachter’s giclée portrait of John Graves Simcoe in 2008
May 11, 2026
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Chris, Laverton
Reconstruction of the garrison well house, in the summer of 2007, required the dismantling of the 1957 stone well
May 11, 2026
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Burant, Jim; Otto, Stephen
Henry Bowyer Lane (b. Corfu, 1817 – d. Victoria , Australia, 1878) was a trained architect related by marriage
May 11, 2026
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Friends of Fort York
his delightful water colour shows a bucolic scene of the small provincial capital peeking out of the forest T
May 11, 2026
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Otto, Stephen
The earliest view of the capital of Upper Canada following the War of 1812 is Robert Irvine’s grand oil
May 11, 2026
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Friends of Fort York
From the Gallery: Putting the Shot The Shot Put is one of several Track and Field events in which
