Christopher Moore's History News

    So this is happening. And if you think the neighbourhood is "the Beach" and not "the Beaches," take it up with Richa...

I've been a member of my local historical society for longer than I can remember, though not the full forty years of its existence.  I...

Every Sunday lately the Toronto Star has enlivened its "Together" section with a quiz on Toronto history .  Props to Jamie Bradbur...

Went round last week to hear a talk at the local historical society by my friend Ron Brown, who knows everything about the lost, remarkab...

Lambton House, not in January Went down to Lambton House on the edge of the Humber River in west Toronto last night to hear the annual H...

Went down last night to the launch of Fort York Stories,  an anthology of articles from Fife & Drum, the half-newsletter, half-histo...

Congregations dwindle, and churches close all over.  In the cities they sometimes turn into condos. In rural areas they may re-emerge a...

Ars Musica's Michael Tobey, tenor (centre left, with cap) singing "Joshua" forWalk the 6 West participants Saturday we we...

Parnaby When my good friend and colleague, the late and lamented Robert Morgan of Windsor, Ont, moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia in the 196...

The leaves say Time for Change On a beautiful Thanksgiving weekend in southern Ontario, we went walking north of Toronto. The sun was b...

Mostly swamp once, and the battlefield was off to the left, somehow The blogger has been travelling more and posting less lately, and a...

Just to say that Danielle Terbenche's piece in Active History recently was a very nice piece of historical work on a small subject: ...