An invasive species native to Asia and Europe, buckthorn was planted in the 1800s to separate farm properties from one another. The Riverwood Conservancy is located on land once used ...

James went on a tour at BioBlitz titled 'Trees and Plants'. He was impressed with how the trees were planted to block the wind in the winter by First Nations ...

I'm the project manager of the Credit Valley Trail, which is funded by the Green Belt and sponsored by the Credit Valley Heritage Society. It's going to be a 113 ...

I'm a member of a field naturalists organization and so I'm really interested in bio-diversity and wild flowers in particular.

Today I'm helping lead one of the walks on bats. I'm very excited to see any bats: big browns, little browns, there may be horny bats, red bats- I just ...

I ran a half marathon a few months ago. It was the first time she did any running. I didn't know I could do it because I've never done it. ...

I play basketball. I play with my friends. At school they had a tournament and we won the first game. We had a lot of training. A lot of people ...

This is an old basketball that I was practically born with. Many street games among the local children used this basketball. I played for hours and hours during the day. ...

I started skating when I was really young. When I was a kid my dad used to make a crappy rink in our backyard. It didn't always freeze so it ...

There was one game that I played—this goes back maybe 6 years ago now—where I played for Unionville (Markham) against Stoufville in women's open competitive soccer. They were our rival ...

I played tennis is Georgetown. I started playing it when I was 12 and then I migrated to Toronto when he was 17 in the late 80s. I moved here ...

I played track and Field during my youth. I played from 10 years old to Junior High. Hurdles were my top event. Indianapolis Peace Games was a major track event ...

The game took place three years ago. It was a good game, but we lost by one still. It wasn't a good goal though. No matter how good your side ...

House at corner of Beverley and D'Arcy Streets, owned by Elizabeth Csók and her husband.

When Luba’s west-end Toronto neighbourhood announced that its annual Solstice Party would be retro themed, she was at a loss as to what to wear. When immigrating to Toronto from ...

Commemorative plate from 1937 marking the coronation of George VI and the Queen consort, Elizabeth. The plate depicts colour ­transferred images of the royal couple amidst a crown, flags, and ...

Panel from the Real Canadian-Portuguese Historical Museum explaining the history of Portuguese fishing for cod in Newfoundland in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Have you ever gone treasure hunting in your home? Toronto's history may be buried there. It may sound silly, but you'd be surprised what you might find. As a city ...

The fibres all come from the same sheep, but different parts. You have to wash it to get the dirt out. This is a diorama of the process from raw ...

This was my maternal grandfather's easel. He was a professional painter, though he wouldn't have described himself that way. He had a day job working for the land office drafting ...

This is a painting from a photograph stylized in attempt to get as far away from the photograph as possible. It triggers a mental image of a person riding a ...

I created these sketches in 1981 while attending school at OCAD University. Old City Hall (Top Left); St Andrews Cathedral (Top Right); Sunnyside Beach ( Bottom Left); Queens Park (Bottom ...

This is a listing of my first home in 1963. I bought it for $4,900 with a down payment of $2,300.

Ron: I was in science and engineering for a while, but then I got involved in the teaching business. Olive has a much more interesting career. Olive: I was a ...

I've been a member of the Calligraphic Arts Guild for probably about 20 years. It truly has been an inspiration for me to be part of it, as it has ...

The 1810 map of City of Toronto Ward 1/The Beaches

My story is about Ripley's Aquarium. It's special to me because I like animals. All of the big animals except the little fish were saved. I bought a stuffie there ...

This collage shows condos surrounded by pollution.

Relics from rationing during the Second World War. These are meat tokens. I remember going to the dominion store with my mother, standing at the meat counter, and watching her ...

This is an ordinary clay garden pot, decorated and smashed by my son at the Royal Ontario Museum. He was doing a class there. He smashed it. It's lovely though ...

In 1990, I started taking hand weaving classes at the guild here in Etobicoke. They have some great shows and it's been very enjoyable. Even though I live downtown, I ...

My father came here after surviving a concentration camp in World War II. He was a Jewish refugee, born in Poland. He escaped the Warsaw ghetto to Russian controlled Poland, ...

Traditionally a stuffing spoon is used for Thanksgiving to take the stuffing out of a Turkey, which is also associated with the celebration of Harvest Day.

I live in a co-op which is run by an array of committees. Everyone who lives within the co-op is supposed to put in a minimum of 4 hours a ...

I was the one who was appointed to go to Sherwood Park and gather grasshoppers to feed the praying mantis. Praying Mantis' are common during the fall and I remember ...

Books - vintage book about bee care and bee rearing

I bought this backpack in 2008 and I bring it with me on all my adventures. I got it at Pacific Mall. I brought it to the ROM and to ...

I immigrated from Hong Kong in 1973, arriving with my husband and two daughters (ages 3 & 1). I was working as a nurse. I came to Canada because my ...

This is an offshoot from a specimen brought to Toronto from Vienna during World War II. Graham received the plant from a stranger in the Toronto neighbourhood, the Annex. She ...

This is a cob of corn that was grown on the grounds of Hart House. It is a Seneca Chief variety, so it is a heritage variety. The exhibition was ...

This is the t-shirt that I wore during World Pride—against the Toronto Anti-Violent Intervention Strategy.

A poster for the Dykes In The Streets march organized by Lesbians Against the Right, and a matching button on October 17 1981,

A 1986 book of lesbian short fiction.

I didn't have a sense of community until I moved to Toronto at age 20. I don't really have a huge connection to Massachusetts as I was thrust into this ...

Several LGBTQ related and other political buttons.

I lived on Yonge Street for more than 40 years. When I lived there, Pride was mostly just queens. It wasn't even official! You know what, they came out during ...

In the late 1970s and 1980s, bookstores began having the content they ordered from the US examined when it crossed the border, and more and more of it was being ...

Hoodie with Green Apple logo, a skateboard lifestyle brand from Winnipeg, Devon's hometown.

I arrived in Canada with my three kids from Nigeria. My husband was a student at York University for two years and then applied for PR. I worked in health ...

I moved to Canada in 1990 from Jamaica. My dad was already living here. I've been working for McDonald's since 1993. All my sisters used to work there, but I'm ...

At the age of 13 I had a choice of whether to do something or nothing all summer. My mother decided I should volunteer with the City of Toronto. I ...

The first time I came to the festival was in 1983. This year I was "voluntold" to volunteer by the friend I was here visiting. I had been in Florida ...

I went to the first Caribana in Toronto. It was on Yonge St, starting at University and ending at Yonge. It was new, very enjoyable, and I used to go ...

I came to Toronto in August 1998 for Grade 13. Went to school in Etobicoke at Cambridge International School, which had a mixture of students from various backgrounds. I had ...

I went to Caribana when I was 16 with a few friends. There weren't any wristbands at the time, everyone just danced and enjoyed themselves. The idea of VIP and ...

I attended my first parade at the age of 15. I lived in Scarborough at the time. Now I live in Ajax. The parade used to be at University, which ...

Story of Exhibition Grounds.

This was the first passport I got at the age of 11 so I could immigrate to Canada.

My first time going to Caribana, the first year it started. 1967 - post Expo.

Map of Leaside. The map shows 3/4 of residential area and 1/4 allocated for an industrial area with no defined roads or boundaries. The map is based on two primary ...

I was born in Aliston, ON and moved to Victoria BC on July 31,1993. I lived on Vancouver Island for 20 years and moved to Toronto on July 31, 2013, ...

I immigrated from Dubai, where I was an IT professional. My immigration interview was waved because of my high status as an IT professional. My friends over here said I ...

A complete 1977 edition of The Toronto Star. From October 16, 1977, the newspaper highlights a front page story on Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau speaking on the high unemployment rates ...

The ring was shipped here form Germany in the 1950s by my grandfather who ran an import store, in Kitchener. He drove to Toronto to get the shipments. He was ...

These are the first books detailing the history of the Chinese in Toronto. After writing the first, Arlene was asked to write many more. "The Chinese in Toronto from 1878" ...

The Order of Canada was awarded to my mom Jean Lumb, the first Chinese-Canadian to receive it in 1976. Her citation credited her for her work in saving Toronto's Chinatown ...

These are buttons for the work of local artists.

Ring, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Arabic calligraphy "Is God not sufficient for his servant"

Small, bronze coloured milk token from Donlands Dairy Ltd.

These are restaurant menus from Scarborough, related to the countries participating in the 2015 Pan Am Games.

Three souvenir books with photos of Toronto in early periods.

Triangular savoury pastry, filled with potato, spice, other veggies and sometimes chicken or beef. Typically served as a meal but in Toronto more frequently eaten as a snack. Smaller in ...

Teddy Bear

Pamphlet celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Leaside's incorporation in 1913.

Musidora by Marshal Wood, Famous British Sculpture. One of the earliest examples of public art in Toronto. Marble figure of a woman.

This photo shows the Queen and King driving east on Bloor St. There is quite a crowd gathered on the north side of the street in front of an old ...

Broadview and Danforth apartment view looking into the DonValley South. Image take 1984. First photgraph taken of this couple. Married three years later.

Admission Ticket from Dec 13, around 1975. It was a pre-taped event at 99 Queen St East.

Bone handled sharpening steel inscribed Ian Dickinson and silver lighter.

Audio featuring Geoff Ketttel, the event's organizer. Beginning in June 2006, it is a festival that celebrates and builds community among the 30,000 residents in medium high rise buildings in ...

3 stone tools and two ceramic pottery sherds.

First style of Omega's self-winding watch

Back and white marble, used during one of the periodic phases of the ROM expensions from the south West wing, demolished in 1979.

Plate #5 Male genitalia in situ:1. Go pus livid us; 2.g.notatus The affinities of the North American species Gomphis as revealed by the genitalia (Odonata, Gomphidae) by E.M.Walker PUBLICATION: Contributions ...

The story begins in my basement at St. George TTC Station. After we decked ourselves out in gold Dollarama tattoos we began the journey on the subway and we went ...

Toronto is a greet mix of old and new. A mixture of old historic buildings and new communities. Important to me is the community I attend school in, which is ...

Growing up in Downsview Park back when it was still the military base.

My great great grandmother and grandfather with my great aunt and great grandmother in high park in the winter.

Mount Pleasant Cemetery makes me feel peaceful because of nature. I ride my scooter. We live right next to it. Maya would find letters and read the inscriptions in the ...

My partner and I had our children at home, assisted by midwives. We had moved into the house a year before, and having our children there really reinforced our sense ...

Black bike helmet

This is a 4 year old girl's story of Centre Island.

For a long time, we've always watched the makeup and fashion YouTube videos done by LaurDIY, a Toronto vlogger. We found out there was a Brandy Melville warehouse sale in ...

My mother's UHN hospital card.

I saw King Billy at an Orange parade once. There wasn't much of a crowd. He was there riding on his signature white horse. It was in 1963. There were ...

I met Kurt Lehner when I was a student at Don Mills Middle School in spring 2014. He came to visit my class so he could teach us to draw ...

A Document in french telling the story of the Shared Path historic walking tour.

An article by George Dunbar titled "The Phototeria- A Canadian Invention" which appeared in the journal "Photographic Canadiana" May-June 2007.

Me and my dad had hardly spent time together because he had to work. we had a good time rollerblading we went so many places, my favorite part was roller ...

Scale model of Toronto's oldest existing house and building in the city, built in 1784.

Tobacco silks such as this were included as promotional items in cigarette and tobacco packages. They often featured series such as breeds of horses or dogs, or flags of countries ...

Statement of adjustments for the Rudolfs family for the first home they owned after immigrating to Canada from Germany.

Celadon Korean "white ware" vase.

Sheet Music of the official song of the Toronto Canoe Club.

Admission wrist bands to the Field Trip Music Festival. Including the inaugural year in 2013, 2014 and 2015.