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The Toronto Daily Telegraph was a conservative newspaper founded by John Ross Robertson in 1866 after he left The Globe, a Liberal-leaning paper, to establish a Conservative-leaning paper. [ 1 ] Launched on May 21, 1866, it initially ran a daily and evening version and was a pro-British voice against increasing American influence a year before ...
Burns Monument at the poet's birthplace, Alloway This is a list of over sixty known memorials (statues, busts, fountains, buildings and street names) to the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Of these, the oldest outdoor statue is given to be at Camperdown, Victoria, Australia (1830). Dumfries town centre statue Scotland Burns Monument, Edinburgh Statue by John Flaxman, Scottish National Portrait ...
The Toronto Evening Telegram was founded in 1876 by publisher John Ross Robertson.He had borrowed CA$10,000 to buy the assets of The Liberal, a defunct newspaper, [2] and published his first edition of 3,800 copies on April 18, 1876. [1]
Young Telegraph was a weekly section of The Daily Telegraph published as a 14-page supplement in the weekend edition of the newspaper. Young Telegraph featured a mixture of news, features, cartoon strips and product reviews aimed at 8–12-year-olds. It was edited by Damien Kelleher (1993–1997) and Kitty Melrose (1997–1999).
O'Connor–Parkview is a neighbourhood in the East York area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.While the name is taken from the definition used by the city of Toronto, local residents are more familiar with the niche areas that define the larger neighbourhood.
Toronto: Toronto gained considerable industrial, cultural and demographic strength from 1920 to 1970. The industrial strength of Toronto area was reinforced by the establishment in 1918 of an auto production plant by General Motors in nearby Oshawa, where it produced Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Oaklands and by Studebaker Canada Ltd. which produced ...
The Garden District is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The name was selected by the Toronto East Downtown Residents Association (TEDRA) in recognition of Allan Gardens, an indoor botanical garden located nearby at the intersection of Carlton and Jarvis Streets. The Garden District was officially designated by the Mayor and ...
Victoria Memorial Square is a park and former cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1793 [ 1 ] as the burial place for those affiliated with the nearby Toronto Garrison ( Fort York ). It was the first cemetery to be used by European settlers in what would become the city of Toronto.