Historical Maps of Toronto makes hard-to-find maps easily accesible on the web. Nathan Ng, brainchild behind the project, answers a few questions about maps, history and his love for both.

The recent hubbub surrounding the arrival of two giant pandas to the Toronto Zoo triggers memories of a time when bears used to wander Toronto’s streets and Bay Street was popularly referred to as “Bear Street.”

Who says time travel is impossible? The new Toronto in Time app, with over 150 stories, is a gateway to Toronto’s past.

Marilyn Bell became a Toronto heroine after swimming across Lake Ontario and later the English Channel and Strait of Juan de Fuca.

No one expected the 1967 Leafs to win the Stanley Cup and no one expected that it might never happen again! The Leafs that year knew they were flawed.

Legend has it that soldiers from Fort York went to the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse to buy beer, but when the keeper refused to sell, the soldiers chopped him to pieces and buried him.

Film historian Wyndham Wise considers the history of TIFF, from its roots as an inclusive informal festival to its rise as a glamorous “world class” starfest.

A crop of promising homegrown films at the Toronto International Film Festival herald a new, exciting era of Canadian filmmaking.

The campaign to save Toronto’s libraries from cuts, spurred by literary giant Margaret Atwood, reached a boiling point last week when mayor Rob Ford said, “Good luck to Margaret Atwood. I don’t even know her. If she could walk by me, I wouldn’t even have a clue who she is…Tell her to go run in [...]

In honour of the Blue Jays’ Roberto Alomar and Pat Gillick’s induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Editor in Chief James Marsh recalls his baseball days in Toronto.