Aug 8, 2016 | Events & Presentations
With its greenhouse and waterfall, Cloud Garden Park makes for an urban oasis in the downtown core, but the massive quilt-like wall by artist Margaret Priest honours the construction trades that built this city, with each section made of a different construction...
Aug 8, 2016 | Events & Presentations
On March 17, 1960, five Italian immigrant labourers died while digging a water main tunnel that passed underneath the Don River in Hogg’s Hollow when a fire broke out and the tunnel later filled with water and silt. A royal commission afterwards resulted in new labour...
Aug 8, 2016 | Events & Presentations
Though the hall itself is now gone, the current location of Thymeless Bar is where the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and other black groups and organizations met after the hall was purchased by the Toronto division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association...
May 16, 2016 | Events & Presentations
The first meeting of The Toronto Workers’ History Project took place with 16 people (and one guest) at the United Steelworkers’ Hall at 25 Cecil Street in Toronto, the space being donated by the USW.
