Mike Filey: 23 books
Toronto Sketches 9
"The Way We Were" Columns from the Toronto Sunday Sun
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands and front porches on September 16, 1973. Since that day more than three decades ago, Mike’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one...
Toronto Sketches 8
The Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Toronto Sun columnist Mike Filey is back with Toronto Sketches 8, the series that captures the people, politics, and architecture of Toronto’s past with photographs and anecdotes that will change the way you see the city forever. The book brings us back to the time of Toronto’s original horse-drawn...
A Toronto Album
Glimpses of the City That Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Mike Filey's collection of pictures of Toronto from the earliest days of photography had gained a reputation as one of the most interesting visual archives of the city's history. This classic look at old Toronto portrays scenes of public life from 1860 to 1950, illustrating how dramatically the urban...
The TTC Story
The First Seventy-five Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation.
The...
A Toronto Album 2
More Glimpses of the City That Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Winner of the 2013 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit
A Toronto Album 2, companion edition to Mike Filey’s immensely popular original album, is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s. Among the 100-plus photographs is a quartet that shows the remarkable...
Discover & Explore Toronto's Waterfront
A Walker's Jogger's Cyclist's Boater's Guide to Toronto's Lakeside Sites and History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Out of print for many years, this much sought-after guide is being brought back just in time for the megacity's first summer. Mike Filey has expanded his original book to include areas that are now the waterfront of the new City of Toronto, stretching from the west end of Etobicoke to the Rouge River...
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
An Illustrated Guide: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Established in 1876, Mount Pleasant Cemetery has a rich and textured history. It is the keeper of thousands of stories, each of which has contributed to the history of our city, province, and country.
Many of Canada's most beloved figures rest there - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Foster Hewitt,...
by Mike Filey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
First published in 1982, I Remember Sunnyside is a mine of golden memories, bringing back to life an earlier Toronto, only hints of which remain today.
Like the city itself, Sunnyside was an everchanging landscape from its heady opening days in the early 1920s to its final sad demolition in...
From Horse Power to Horsepower
Toronto: 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
From the 1890s through the 1920s, as horse gave way to machine, the look of Toronto and the lifestyles of its inhabitants were irrevocably altered. From Horse Power to Horsepower is a pictorial history of the vehicles of the era.
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