Adam Bunch

Exploring the history of Toronto & Canada. Author: Toronto Book of the Dead & Toronto Book of Love / Host: @thisiscanadiana / Creator: Toronto Dreams Project

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I've created a Toronto History "starter pack" on the other site — which helps people find accounts to follow.

So, if you're looking to make the switch, you'll have an easy time finding people who write about the history of our city: https://t.co/0fHAVZfwjN

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@marniuws Hi Marni — I'm unbelievably slow responding, but yes I do! Nothing currently scheduled, but I do public tours about once a month or so, especially during the warmer months: https://t.co/fMPJ2LElBw

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1. Clowns & firefighters got into a brawl at a Toronto brothel on this night 168 years ago.

It sparked the strangest riot in the city's history.

So, here's a thread about the Toronto Circus Riot…

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It will still explore stories about the city's past — along with local heritage news and event listings: https://t.co/j80h2mYPH6

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I'm celebrating the third anniversary of my Toronto history newsletter by giving it a fresh name...

The Toronto History Weekly is becoming The Toronto Time Traveller!

(Link in the replies.)

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The Great Depression was at its height in 1932 and, as Christmas approached, Donald Munro was out of work — so instead of buying his kids a gift, he made them one.

It proved to be an international sensation.

New post on the humble birth of table hockey: https://t.co/N1oIFZdLOS

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This photo was taken on New Year's Eve at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto — revellers ringing in 1942.

It turns out there's a wild story behind it: a tragic tale filled with scandal, war, Broadway stars & betrayal...

Shared it in my annual thread over on the blue site...

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@GateauxAmmo Amazing! I saw one of the newcomers last year and it's hands down one of the most magical things I've seen in the city.

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My favourite stories from The Toronto History Weekly this year — including:

The 9-year-old rebel who blazed the way for women's hockey...
The FBI raid on Donald Sutherland's house...
A brief history bald eagles in Toronto...

And much more: https://t.co/MSeV8e3B4N

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@mrs_oj Amazing

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1. Decades after the sinking of the Titanic, a Soviet submarine descended to the ocean floor to explore the wreck.

It found something surprising down there: 12 tickets for the Toronto streetcar.

Here's my annual thread about how they got there…

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He was a kid from New Toronto, born on a kitchen table in the Depression, who dropped out of high school but would become a professor, teacher, author & one of the world’s leading champions for inclusive education — and also helped me fall in love with the history of our city.

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My father passed away a couple of weeks ago, and Christmas Eve was always the biggest night of the year at our house — so, today, I wrote about him: https://t.co/Su32Tm1bMg

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@BrittNotABot Interesting! The number will be the street address at that block — so I think that would probably place it right at Bay & Albert (out back of Old City Hall).

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It begins tonight! Toronto stories about people fighting oppression, overthrowing tyranny, working to help others, and striving to make the world a better place.

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A History of Hope & Resistance in Toronto — my new online course — starts next week!

All over Zoom, recorded if you have to miss any of it, and pay-what-you-like: https://t.co/9dXqid1CSt

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Just two more days until "A History of Hope & Resistance in Toronto" begins!

[Adam Bunch @TODreamsProject]

A History of Hope & Resistance in Toronto — my new online course — starts next week!

All over Zoom, recorded if you have to miss any of it, and pay-what-you-like: https://t.co/9dXqid1CSt

[Adam Bunch @TODreamsProject]

Doctor Who was created by a Canadian.

I shared my big, wild annual thread about him — and how he ended up as a possible target for kidnapping by the FLQ — on the other place: https://t.co/A0OWQuPgSc

Follow me there if you'd like to continue following my work!

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@Kateretired2021 Amazing!

[Adam Bunch @TODreamsProject]

A History of Hope & Resistance in Toronto — my new online course — starts next week!

All over Zoom, recorded if you have to miss any of it, and pay-what-you-like: https://t.co/9dXqid1CSt

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Was originally going to do something else, but this felt timely for some reason. PWYC.

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Announcing A HISTORY OF HOPE & RESISTANCE IN TORONTO — my next new online course.

Filled with stories about people fighting oppression, overthrowing tyranny, working to help others & making the world a better place: https://t.co/9dXqid1CSt

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@Toronto_History Added you right away!

[Adam Bunch @TODreamsProject]

I've created a Toronto History "starter pack" on the other site — which helps people find accounts to follow.

So, if you're looking to make the switch, you'll have an easy time finding people who write about the history of our city: https://t.co/0fHAVZfwjN

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One spring day 79 years ago, a Canadian medic leapt out of a plane high above Nazi Germany & began floating toward the ground.

Shared my annual thread about Toppy Topham — and how he died — on the other site this year: https://t.co/W1WXQqcLSQ