Toronto: A Place of Meeting II

About the Exhibit

Renew your love affair with Toronto by browsing the rare, original paintings, posters, and photographs from the Toronto Public Library's Special Collections. New items in the exhibit include decorative sheet music of catchy Toronto tunes. Reminisce over Take Me out to Sunnyside and Casa Loma Way. A showcase of books includes a letter written by Anne of Green Gables author, Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Montgomery lived on Riverside Drive in Toronto from 1935 until her death in 1942.)

Back by popular demand, rare maps including one from 1753, eerie black and white photographs that show the massive destruction of the city's downtown core by fire in 1904 and newspaper account of the anti-Semitic riots that took place at the east end beaches and Christie Pits in 1933.

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