Kristine Morris

Exterior of Old City Hall, sign reads "Old City Hall Now Open"

Old City Hall has reopened to the public for a summer of exciting pop-up events. Take your lunch, chill out in the courtyard, see archival photo and museum exhibitions and enjoy this historic gem!

Learn more: toronto.ca/explore-enjo...

I hope you had a decent turnout. Sadly, I was out of town.

Looking forward to this one.

@adambunch.bsky.social Toronto Book of the Dead spotted at Ben McNally Bookstore.

This sounds great & much needed. I'll be checking it out.

That same cousin is a descendant of the brother of Susannah Moodie and Catharine Parr Trail. 😵‍💫

I just added John Ridout (the one who died in a duel with Samuel Peters Jarvis) to my family tree. Seriously! Not in my direct family line, but a second cousin twice removed is a direct descendant. 😲

Yes. 🙂

The first stone building in Toronto

What was the first recorded stone building in Toronto? This one formerly at Lombard and Church Streets!

I was going to write about it more, but the amazing @kdmorris.bsky.social did it better than I ever could!

lombardstreethistory.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/p...

Photo: Toronto Archives

Thanks for the shout out!

Marked my calendar for next year.

I noticed that too! Took a screen shot.

@adambunch.bsky.social Another contest to add to your list. Maybe not so "weird" but fun none the less.

A Truly Gruesome Tour of Downtown Toronto! A history walk filled with nauseatingly morbid tales from Alex Sein — a grisly new addition to the line-up for The Festival of Bizarre Toronto History.

This one's not for the faint of heart!

The fest is just a couple of weeks away: www.bizarretoronto.com

Toronto’s Old City Hall could soon be a home for its civic treasures. It can be more than that A historic building, set to be transformed into a museum, is also a chance to put our ‘Beautiful City’ rhetoric to the test

Toronto’s Old City Hall is a massive civic building that needs new life. The city’s nascent museum needs a home.

I call on Toronto to put the pieces together

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe...

This Indigenous public art --- five 12-metre panels of glass beads along Hamilton's waterfront --- is stunning. By Cree-Métis fashion designer Angela DeMontigny. My thoughts immediately went to Christie Belcourt's paintings.

The Festival of Bizarre Toronto History is just 3 weeks away!

It'll include an online panel about the weirdest contests in Toronto history — from fly-killing to baby-making — with @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social, the Star's Katie Daubs & @onegalstoronto.bsky.social.

Learn more: www.bizarretoronto.com

They Were Right Here: Tracing Black People Enslaved in the Town of York - Spacing Toronto The presence of Black children, women, and men who were enslaved in Upper Canada has been omitted from, or marginalized, in the Canadian historical narrative. Because of my years of research on slaver...

Read my latest article with @spacing.bsky.social

"They Were Right Here: Tracing Black People Enslaved in the Town of York (Toronto)"

spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

A Weird Toronto Mother's Day Walk. Explore strange stories of extraordinary moms from Toronto history on a downtown walking tour led my author Adam Bunch. Sunday May 11 at 2pm. Meet at University & Richmond (on the south-west corner). Pay what you like.

This Sunday! A Toronto history walk for Mother's Day, filled with strange tales of extraordinary moms from the city's past — from rebellion to scandal to séances.

Just meet at University & Richmond at 2pm and pay what you like!

Our volume "Canada and the Great Irish Famine" is coming along: we now have a cover and a set of typeset proofs! Given the place of the Atlantic Ocean in the Famine emigration, the cover is an appropriate one. @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social More details on publication to follow #irishincanada #refugees

Quick thread worth reading... you'll learn something.

Seen in Hamilton, ON.

The Ports building in Hamilton.

A mural seen in Ithica, NY in 2015 (yikes that was 10 years ago now).

Sharing some of my fav photos: Base 31 in Picton.

I don't think I've ever been inside. Beautiful.

Going through some older photos... here's a shot of the bell tower at Massey College.

‘It’s exceptional’: Limestone gateway a welcome addition to NOTL’s Old Town Niagara-on-the-Lake resident Gerry Kowalchuk had a vision for a revamped gateway feature at Queen and Mississauga streets to reflect the character of the town.

Nice idea for a gateway: www.niagarathisweek.com/news/niagara...

War Memories across Canada Documentary - War Heritage Research Initiative / Patrimoine de la guerre | Royal Roads University

An interesting documentary project, War Memories across Canada, includes 27 stories, each 6 to 22 minutes in length, exploring sites of memory in Canada that have a link to the world wars. warheritage.royalroads.ca/war-memories...