Toronto of Old / Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario

A compendium of recollections and archival fragments presenting the early settlement and social life of a Canadian port city. The author proceeds street by street, combining personal memory, oral tradition, and printed and manuscript relics to sketch buildings, incidents, neighborhood lore, and the people associated with them; extended routes and a chapter on the harbour record vessels and maritime culture. Material gathered from pioneer associations and periodical installments supplements the narrative. The work emphasizes preservation of local anecdotes and everyday detail rather than offering a formal chronological or statistical municipal history.