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Dateline: Toronto

Bullfighting would become a major motif in Hemingway's writing, appearing in The Sun Also Rises and Death in the Afternoon.


Agincourt, Toronto

The name of the settlement was after Azincourt in northern France and apparently was intended to satisfy a French Canadian Post Office Department bureaucrat who demanded that Hill give his settlement a French name.

Allen Martin

He has appeared as a guest on several local and national radio and television broadcasts including Dateline, 20/20, America’s Black Journal and the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

Beach Hebrew Institute

The Beach Hebrew Institute was founded in 1919 by Jewish residents in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was then a largely Anglo-Saxon area in the east part of Toronto far removed from the Jewish neighbourhoods further to the west in The Ward and around Spadina Avenue.

Bridle Path, Toronto

Forsey Page, a Toronto-based land developer, envisioned the Bridle Path as an "exclusive enclave of estate homes" and he built the neighbourhood's first home, a Cape Cod Colonial style home at 2 The Bridle Path.

Centre for Research on Inner City Health

Founded in 1998, CRICH is based at St. Michael's Hospital, one of Canada's leading research and teaching hospitals.

Clanton Park, Toronto

The neighbourhood is one of the largest Jewish areas of the city, but also contains a large number of residents of Italian, Filipino, and Russian origin.

Colborne Street, Toronto

The street is notable for retaining several historic buildings built during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Collected Works of Northrop Frye

The project of producing a scholarly, uniform edition of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye (1912–1991) grew from modest beginnings in 1993; the project has been funded by grants from the Michael G. DeGroote family through McMaster University, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and from Victoria University, University of Toronto.

Context Development

Ideal Lofts is a residential condominium low-rise building at 301 Markham Street at College Street in Trinity–Bellwoods and Little Italy, Toronto.

Davenport, Toronto

In 1861 the Northern Railway ran a rail line to the south of Davenport Rd and built a station in the area which they named Davenport.

Deer Park School, Toronto

Deer Park is located at 23 Ferndale Avenue, just north of St. Clair Avenue in the neighbourhood of Deer Park, Toronto.

Most students leaving Deer Park attend either North Toronto Collegiate Institute or Northern Secondary School.

Deer Park, Toronto

After a stakeout, Canada's most notorious bank robber of the day, Edwin Boyd, leader of the Boyd Gang, was captured in this house at 6:00AM on March 15, 1952.

Emmanuel College, Toronto

Emmanuel College was the scene in which the British band, Tears for Fears filmed the music video for their song "Head over Heels" in the summer of 1985.

Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale

As a result of significant population growth in Parkdale in the 1880s, the church grew from 40 families in 1880 to 320 in 1887 and the need for another parish was recognized.

The Church of the Epiphany had a close association with Wycliffe College.

Ernest MacMillan Family Home

The Sir Ernest MacMillan family home is a Toronto heritage property located at 115 Park Road, in the Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

George Knudson

He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario.

Governor's Bridge, Toronto

The west part of the neighbourhood was quickly built up during the Roaring Twenties boom period, and most of the houses date from this era.

Greektown, Toronto

It is located on Danforth Avenue, between Chester Avenue and Dewhurst Blvd., in east Toronto.

Insider Exclusive

The Insider Exclusive television show regularly produces original Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Prime Time style television shows for the public and broadcasts them on major cable networks such as PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Tru-TV, Fox, Time Warner and Comcast, Cox, Charter, A & E, Discovery, TLC, and Bravo.

James A. Toronto

James Albert Toronto (born 1951) is a professor of Arabic language and Islamic religion at Brigham Young University (BYU).

John Harrison O'Donnell

He was born in Simcoe, Upper Canada, the son of John O'Donnell, a native of Ireland, and was educated at Victoria University and Trinity Medical College.

Larry Zolf

Zolf is the father of award-winning poet Rachel Zolf and is buried in Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Lawrence Park, Toronto

Notable institutions located in Lawrence Park are Crescent School, Toronto French School, the Rosedale Golf Club, and The Granite Club.

Le Petit Tourette

He quickly tries to cancel the Dateline appointment, but Chris Hansen refuses to allow it and tells him that once, when a pedophile tried to get out of appearing on his To Catch a Predator series, they tracked the pedophile down and he shot himself (see Louis Conradt).

Malvern, Toronto

On June 15, 2007, the Ontario government had released MoveOntario 2020, a plan that would fund 52 different transit projects throughout Toronto and Hamilton for the cost of $17.5 billion, including the Scarborough RT extension to Sheppard Avenue, which would meet the proposed Sheppard East LRT line, also to be funded by MoveOntario 2020.

Morningside Heights, Toronto

The TTC's 133 Neilson bus serves most of the area, with a connection to the Scarborough Centre RT station and Scarborough Town Centre.

Muhammad S. Eissa

Eissa wrote along with James A. Toronto the article on textbooks in Egypt in Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East.

Parkdale, Toronto

John Henry Dunn - Businessman, politician and Canada Receiver General.

Paula Fletcher

As a councillor, Fletcher rallied Toronto City Council to oppose the Portlands Energy Centre, a 550 megawatt power plant in the Port Lands district beside the Hearn Generating Station.

Red McCarthy

His hockey career included stops with Toronto St. Michael's College, Barrie Flyers, Boston Olympics, Nelson B.C. Maple Leafs, and Sudbury Wolves of the Canadian Senior Hockey League.

Regis College, Toronto

Regis College is a theological college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1930 and affiliated with the Society of Jesus.

Runnymede, Toronto

It first opened in 1911, the year of King George V's coronation, it replaced Elizabeth Street School, built in 1882.

The school, named for trustee James Culnan, was opened in 1970 with the official opening and blessing 6 June 1971.

Sherbourne Street, Toronto

In 1838, following the Upper Canada Rebellion, seven blockhouses were built, guarding the approaches to Toronto, including the Sherbourne Blockhouse, built at the current intersection of Sherbourne and Bloor.

South Core, Toronto

Maple Leaf Square, home to Air Canada Centre and thus the home of the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs, sometimes plays host to live broadcasts of sporting events on the huge video screen facing Bremner Boulevard.

St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral, Toronto

The first holy liturgy of the parish was carried out on 12 August 1962 in the "Zhelevo Hall", a community centre established by Aegean Macedonians from the village of Želevo (Antartiko).

On 7 August 1962, members of the United Macedonians Organization held a meeting in the King Edward Hotel in Toronto and the decision was made to build a new church in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood which will bear the name of the medieval Saint Clement of Ohrid.

Stuart Henderson

"Making the Scene" focuses on the history of 1960s Yorkville as a mecca for Toronto's and Canada's counterculture.

Sunnyside, Toronto

The name originates in a local farm owned by John Howard, which was situated just to the north, on the location of the current St. Joseph's Health Centre hospital.

Terry Buckle

Commissioned as a Church Army Evangelist in 1962 he was Parish Assistant at St Philip’s, Etobicoke and then Director of Inner Parish, Little Trinity, Toronto until 1966.

The Ward

The Ward, Toronto, a neighbourhood in central Toronto that for several decades was the centre of the city's Jewish community

Toronto Railway Company Belt Line

The Bloor streetcar was extended from Jane Street to Woodbine Avenue, and remained in operation until it was replaced by the Bloor-Danforth Subway line in 1968.

Volvo Halifax Assembly

The plant was operated by Volvo Canada Limited (now Volvo Cars of Canada Corporation) in Toronto, Ontario and bridged the gap between Volvo of North America (Rockleigh, New Jersey), Volvo headquarters and the flagship Torslanda plant in Gothenburg.

West Hill, Toronto

It is located in the eastern end of the city, in the former suburb of Scarborough.

West Vancouver

West Vancouver is often referred to as one of the wealthiest municipalities in Canada, though two eastern municipalities, primarily Forest Hill in Ontario as well as Westmount in Quebec are often considered contenders for the same title.

William Peyton Hubbard

Losing an election in 1915, Hubbard retired to the Riverdale area of the city, building a home in which he would spend his remaining days until his death at the age of 93.

York East

Called the East Riding of York, it consisted of the Townships of Markham, Scarborough, the Village of Yorkville and the portion of the Township of York lying east of Yonge Street.


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