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- “I’m going to do whatever it takes” (21 Jan 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- 203 years ago, Toronto lighthouse-keeper disappeared (15 Dec 2020) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper, Video
- A Building Boon Hits the Toronto Islands (14 Feb 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- A Floating home With The City As Its Front Yard (17 Feb 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- A lament for paradise lost (27 Jun 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- A magical, haunting place (11 Jun 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Alan Howard – When cars drove across the ice to the Island (21 Feb 2016) Posted in: Bios-Obits
- All quiet on Toronto Islands (16 Apr 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- An Island Landmark To Go (24 Jan 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Ancient Lighthouse Still Sturdy Beacon (23 Sep 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Architects re-energize Shaw House (24 Apr 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- As water encroaches, Toronto Islands are haunting (13 Feb 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Barnacle Bill Durnan (31 Dec 2019) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Beach-loving Burt spawned a canoeing dynasty (19 Mar 2016) Posted in: Athletics, Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Bill Durnan, Fixture on the Islands (24 Apr 2016) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Bliss (well, almost) is an Island off Toronto (16 Feb 2020) Posted in: Newspaper
- Boats ready to set sail to Toronto Islands (8 Aug 2019) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
- Breaking Point -Toronto Island erosion (22 Jul 2020) Posted in: Document, Newspaper
- Brief History of Manitou Road, Centre Island (19 Aug 2023) Posted in: Document, Research
- Carousel deal up in the air (18 Oct 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Catch o’ the day (18 Aug 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Centre Island’s Carousel (19 Sep 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Children of the Island (27 Aug 2023) Posted in: Research, Video
- Chuck Singer: RCAF base on Lough Erne (12 Feb 2019) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Couples can’t take the plunge on the Island (3 Jul 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Danger and Defiance on a Savage Lake (10 Jul 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Desire to preserve the Islands runs deep (23 Feb 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Despite Potentialities, Island Heyday Over, Businessman Claim (10 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Diary of a water-logged islands dweller (20 Jun 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Don’t mansion it (20 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Durnan Is An Easy Winner (1 Jun 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Edward “Ed” Durnan, Great Sculler (24 Apr 2016) Posted in: Athletics, Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Edward Hanlan, America’s Champion Oarsman! (29 Jan 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- English’s Boathouse, Centre Island, Heritage Toronto Unveiling of Historic Plaque (1 Mar 2020) Posted in: Video
- Enjoy a rowboat cruise through Toronto Islands (17 Nov 2018) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
- Erosion threatens Toronto Islands (28 Nov 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Every lad an Islander (9 Feb 2017) Posted in: Athletics, Newspaper
- Family puts John Hanlan back on map (8 Jun 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Famous Rowing Prizes (11 Oct 2018) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
- Farewell To Arms Dinner Programme, WIA, 1946 (2 Mar 2024) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Document
- Fewer ferries ran on Sundays (18 Feb 2017) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
- Flying through trees (16 Sep 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Fred Mazza Memorial: (30 Dec 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Gibraltar Point Lighthouse (1 Sep 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- GONE – Main Drag, Centre Island Documentary (22 Jan 2018) Posted in: Video
- Green house gets warm welcome (1 May 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- H. James Jim Watt (25 Feb 2016) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Hanlan’s Point Fire – 1909 (18 Feb 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Hanlan’s Point Fire 1909- Ferry Company To Create A Fine New Point (5 Mar 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- He’ll be waiting for Joe Wright, Jr. (10 May 2017) Posted in: Athletics, Newspaper
- Historicist: The People’s Champion (7 Apr 2019) Posted in: Athletics, Bios-Obits, Document
- How Toronto Island Was Born (20 Aug 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- I Live On The Island (2 Sep 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Ice Sports a tradition on Toronto Bay (17 Mar 2022) Posted in: Athletics, Boats, Newspaper
- If it rains (11 Jul 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island Airport Bridge Up In The Air (29 Apr 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island Canoe Club 1943 (27 Jul 2021) Posted in: Athletics, Newspaper, Research
- Island church gets a new lease on life (11 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island Fire Alarm Signals (20 Jan 2019) Posted in: Document
- Island Flavours – Personal Recipes from the Homes of Toronto Islanders (10 Dec 2020) Posted in: Document
- Island home, and island life, that was lost (19 Apr 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island Homes valued higher than proposed price (19 Mar 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island Ignorance – Islanders’ legal rights (13 Jul 2022) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island Public School, A brief history (27 Aug 2021) Posted in: Document
- Island residents brace for flooding (17 Aug 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island Residents Dig In (25 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island Show catches fine folk flavor (9 Apr 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Island’s Last Businessman-Ken Sinclair (12 May 2020) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Boats, Newspaper
- Island’s past full of intrigue (20 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Islander turned part of Ned Hanlan’s bed into cabinet (29 Oct 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Islanders don’t have a spit to stand on (22 Jul 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Islanders envision return to ‘poor man’s paradise’ (3 Apr 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Islanders turn old school into arts centre (6 Feb 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Islanders Weather Political Storms (2 Jul 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Islands back open (29 Aug 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Islands In The Snow (5 May 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- ISO Medal For George Durnan (1905) (6 Apr 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- J. O. Ollie McCrimmon – Hound of Cherokee (25 Feb 2016) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Jean McLarty – Obituary (11 Dec 2016) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- John Durnan’s Water Taxi- “The Louise” (16 Mar 2016) Posted in: Boats
- John Franklin McLarty – Obituary (10 Dec 2016) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- John R Durnan – Obituary (21 Jan 2019) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Johnny Durnan vs Metro Toronto (21 Mar 2019) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
- Joys of island Living (29 Mar 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Junk store bargain buy adds to Hanlon history (12 Nov 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Kathleen Walker – Obituary (31 Dec 2018) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Landmarks of Toronto – At Hanlan’s Point (28 May 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Lawrence Solman, Canada’s Uncrowned Amusement King (5 Aug 2016) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Legendary rower comes home to Hanlan’s Point (27 May 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Lifetime In Lighthouse (20 Feb 2019) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Lol Solman’s Christmas Box (25 Mar 2021) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Lone Islander Drowns Near Home Dock (12 Mar 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Look What They’ve Done To Toronto’s Island (4 Mar 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Lucky few enjoy isle life (3 Apr 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Margaret Durnan – Obituary (1918) (9 Apr 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Mary Ann Hanlan – Obituary (13 Apr 2019) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Metro parks policy shifts – but heat still on Islanders (8 Dec 2020) Posted in: Newspaper
- Metro Plan Bewildering To Residents On Toronto Island (19 Apr 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Metro, Islanders will go to Court (11 Aug 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation: Toronto Purchase / Treaty 13, 1805 & 2010 (21 Aug 2023) Posted in: Document
- Ned Hanlan 50 Years Ago (25 May 2017) Posted in: Athletics, Newspaper
- Ned Hanlan and the Golden Age of Sculling (7 Feb 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Ned Hanlan – World Champion Oarsman (18 Jul 2017) Posted in: Athletics, Bios-Obits
- Ned Hanlan-our first sports hero (6 Apr 2017) Posted in: Athletics, Newspaper
- No club is an island (3 Mar 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- No-profit ferries go for a million (7 Dec 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Notes from a Damp Island (16 Oct 2017) Posted in: Document
- Now, they are trying to evict him (20 Jan 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- On The Island In The Winter-1908 (31 Mar 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- One last spin on iconic carousel (29 Aug 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Only Forty Families Remain (18 Sep 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Only Memories Left of Gay Island Amusement Park (6 Mar 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Our islands in the fun (15 Aug 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Perfect Weather for Ned Hanlan (Tug) Party (6 Mar 2017) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
- Peter Dean – Obituary (11 Dec 2017) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- Please Walk on the People (24 Dec 2020) Posted in: Document, Newspaper
- Post: Medals For Saving Of Life (1 Oct 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Post: Nature on the Toronto Islands (9 Aug 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Posting: Death of Mrs. Jennie Oster (24 Sep 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Posting: For $17,000, Islander builds a $60,000 sailboat (21 Oct 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Posting: Innovation at the Island (15 Sep 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Posting: New rental homes bid for Islands (1 Aug 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Posting: Paradise Lost (24 Jul 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Posting: Piping Plovers (14 Jul 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Posting: Toronto Island: A paradise for all (12 Aug 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Posting: Welcome Home Ned Hanlan (10 Nov 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Proposed land sale could see prices soar (28 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Protest Against Destruction of Hanlan’s Landmark (9 Apr 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Radelmüller, Gibraltar Point Lighthouse Keeper: New Light on Toronto’s Oldest Cold Case (24 Dec 2021) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Document, Newspaper, Research
- Renovation boom on Island (27 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Rethinking the Island Airport as urban resort (27 Feb 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Robertson’s Landmarks excerpt – Gibraltar Point Lighthouse (4 Sep 2022) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Document
- Rogue Peacock (3 Oct 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Rundown cabin is not just for anyone (10 May 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Save Island Homes Booklet (27 Dec 2019) Posted in: Document
- Shivering? That’s For City Folk (18 Mar 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Should Toronto Islands get ready for another flood (9 Nov 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Structures Toronto: Island Community (27 Mar 2017) Posted in: Video
- Takes 6000 Passengers To Pay For New Water Taxi Engine (26 Nov 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Tales from the keeper (13 Sep 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- The Death of Sculler Johnny Durnan (4 Jul 2017) Posted in: Athletics, Newspaper
- The Durnan’s of Toronto Island (12 Dec 2019) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Boats, Document
- The Ferryboat Follies, CIA, 1951 (24 Aug 2023) Posted in: Document
- The Forgotten Idol – Ned Hanlan (5 Mar 2016) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- The Ghosts That Walk Toronto Island (14 Apr 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- The Island – A Literary Guide (15 Mar 2019) Posted in: Document
- The Last Tent Dwellers on Toronto Islands (22 Feb 2020) Posted in: Bios-Obits, Newspaper
- The Lighthouse On The Island (15 May 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- The little ferry that could(n’t) (14 May 2017) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
- The Ned Hanlan Restoration Project (2 Feb 2017) Posted in: Boats, Document
- The never-ending school trip (13 Feb 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- The stormy day that Toronto got its Island (9 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- The worst I’ve seen it (12 Dec 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- The Year Of The Flood (27 Sep 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Tom Hodgson – Obituary (2006) (7 Apr 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Toronto Harbour-The Passing Years (31 Aug 2020) Posted in: Document
- Toronto Island History Project (15 Jun 2014) Posted in: Document
- Toronto Island Hockey Team 1939 (16 Mar 2016) Posted in: Athletics
- Toronto Island school a hinterland (25 Jul 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Toronto Islander, oldest man to row across Atlantic (30 Mar 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Toronto Islands never ceded to Crown (13 Dec 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Toronto Islands resident to row across Atlantic (13 Feb 2018) Posted in: Athletics, Boats, Newspaper
- Toronto Islands taste fall’s serenity (30 May 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Toronto Islands: A little country in a city centre (7 Nov 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Toronto Regatta 1839 Poster (13 Oct 2018) Posted in: Boats, Document
- Toronto Rowing Club (3 Sep 2017) Posted in: Athletics
- Toronto’s Island Airport Opening (9 Feb 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Tour of Homes on Toronto Islands (7 May 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Tree cutting riles residents of the Island (14 May 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Trillium ferry gets tuned up (10 Mar 2018) Posted in: Newspaper
- Troubled Island businesses facing “a perfect storm” (10 Oct 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- TTC Poster – Ferry Service and Island Events 1928 (14 Oct 2017) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
- Tyrrell’s Society Blue Book 1903-04 (4 Jul 2019) Posted in: Document
- Unique lessons from Toronto Island (17 Sep 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Unofficial Mayor of Toronto Island (6 Oct 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Ward’s Island Willow (23 Jan 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Ward’s Voyage an Adventure (16 Nov 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- Wards Fall Carnival (3 Nov 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Water taxi owners (8 Oct 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Welcome Back To The Main Drag (26 Apr 2016) Posted in: Newspaper
- Welcome to Toronto Island Community circa 2014 (13 Dec 2017) Posted in: Video
- West Nile virus found on the islands (29 Aug 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- What’s It Like To Live On Toronto Island? (27 Jan 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- When cars drove across the ice to the Island (13 Oct 2017) Posted in: Newspaper
- Winter On The Island – 1912 (22 Apr 2019) Posted in: Newspaper
- You just fly – Iceboat (6 Mar 2018) Posted in: Boats, Newspaper
Index of Pages
- Historical Maps of the Island (3 Apr 2017)
- Island Sketches by A.Dickson Patterson (1 Dec 2015)
- Robertson’s Landmarks of Toronto (26 Mar 2016)
- Toronto Island Archives collection (8 Jul 2014)
- Toronto Island Houses (29 Nov 2015)
- Ward’s Island Weekly 1918-1935 (6 Aug 2023)
Index of Projects
- Island Public School (IPS) Class Photos (19 Feb 2017)
- Newsletters from the Algonquin Island Archives (30 Dec 2015)
- Picture Postcards (22 Feb 2016)
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