05-12-2010, 12:59 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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Photo of iceboating on Toronto Bay by John Boyd Sr., December 30, 1924. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1548, Series 393, Item 19456.
"For as long as Toronto has been settled, Lake Ontario has been a source of winter recreation.
As soon as the ice closed in, the harbour became crowded with skaters, sleighs bounding across the drifts,
people curling, and men cultivating ice for shopkeepers' iceboxes. And local thrill-seekers—to paraphrase
marine historian C.H.J. Snider—skimmed and swooped across the bay in iceboats."
... [ torontoist.]
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