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Brilliant sir

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Loved this! Fantastic documentary. So well done Bill! On behalf of the Jewish community in Toronto and Jews and historians everywhere, thank you!

I was surprised I was unable to make out the St. Lawrence Market buildings easily.

Very cool..Ty for posting!

Toronto has a fake history .. The city is much older .

This is wonderful, beautiful architecture , there's still many amazing buildings in Toronto, thank you for this great video 🇨🇦

Dear Kitty and Ralph, How wonderful that you are both retelling this story now, and that you both still have the spirit and stamina that I remember when I lived in Toronto. I still think of both of you fondly and with admiration. Love, Rabbi Corinne Copnick Los Angeles, CA

Great video - Thanks for that!

What a beautiful, beautiful tribute to a family. This is really informative and touching. Well done, Billy. ---Denise

Couzin Billy, that made my heart swell up with love for grandpa. Thank you for making this film. You're a tender gentle soul. I'm going to return to it again and again. PS I would love prints of some of those photos. Cheers Couzin Angie 💋

sweet

Wonder if anybody was living on the Toronto Islands then . I see them in the distance .

Thanks Bill, I'm a Toronto historian fanatic, I love the glimpses back in time. My family has been in Toronto since it was called York, so I have an even great reason to study our history. My father also studies our family history, right back to when we first arrived in Halifax, coming from both England and Ireland, way back before Canada was even Canada. As you know, it was a British protectorate for over a century, but if my fathers calculations are correct (we do have the papers, but sadly, most were ruined in a basement flood 100 years ago, all that remains are small documents in such poor condition it's barely legible), our ancestors first arrived in Canada in August, 1820, so you can see why I'm so interested in knowing my roots, and in turn, Toronto's roots as well.

great stuff

I'd like to know how it ended up at the US Library of Congress. I guess they won't let a Toronto archive keep it.

I very much enjoyed this video. So much information and great photos. Thanks for sharing this................

Glad somebody is doing this - awesome photo - Toronto history doesn't get the respect it deserves. @2:37 the "big spit" is actually what is now the southern end of the port lands, extending to "Fisherman's Island", a small community which was expropriated during WWI. Prior to the early 1800's, the triangle area enclosed by it & Cherry street was once the largest wetland habitat in eastern Canada. The current Leslie spit would have been well south of all this, and is entirely man-made IIRC.