Adam Bunch
Exploring the history of Toronto/Canada. Author: The Toronto Book of the Dead & Toronto Book of Love. Host of Canadiana. Prof at George Brown. Creator: Toronto Time Traveller newsletter, The Festival of Bizarre Toronto History & The Toronto Dreams Project
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Adam BunchHappy 45 anniversary of the Toronto bathhouse raids to all who celebrate. Our current police chief was one of the officers behind the 2000 "Pussy Palace" lesbian bathhouse raid. History is not so old.
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- It begins tomorrow night! SECRET TORONTO: SPIES, TRAITORS & UNDERCOVER AGENTS explores true tales of espionage, betrayal and conspiracy from the city's past — in four online lectures. Pay what you like! And they'll all be recorded in case you have to miss any: tinyurl.com/secretTOreg
- It begins tomorrow night! SECRET TORONTO: SPIES, TRAITORS & UNDERCOVER AGENTS explores true tales of espionage, betrayal and conspiracy from the city's past — in four online lectures. Pay what you like! And they'll all be recorded in case you have to miss any: tinyurl.com/secretTOreg
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- Reposted by Adam BunchThe guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
- Reposted by Adam Bunch"There is no visible trace left of a plot just outside the main cemetery set aside for Canadian UN peacekeepers. Inside the main graveyard two whole sections of graves have been razed, of more than 100 allied soldiers killed in the second world war..."
- Reposted by Adam BunchPart 1 in a 2-part series by Cheryl Thompson on reggae legend Jimmy Cliff's connection to Toronto. #TOpoli #BlackHistoryMonth spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
- Sabotage at Union Station — an unlikely secret attack carried out by *our own spies* during WWII. It's one of the stories we'll be talking about in SECRET TORONTO: SPIES, TRAITORS & UNDERCOVER AGENTS. The new online lecture series starts Thursday night — pay what you like! tinyurl.com/secretTOreg
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- From Bay Street brokerage firms to Communist spy. Jennifer Miles is just one of the spies we'll be talking about in SECRET TORONTO: SPIES, TRAITORS & UNDERCOVER AGENTS. The new online course starts Thursday night — pay what you like! tinyurl.com/secretTOreg
- Reposted by Adam BunchEscorted over to Ward’s Island this morning #Toronto
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- A teenage girl carrying secret revolutionary messages in her corset. Eunice Whiting is just one of the spies we'll be talking about in SECRET TORONTO: SPIES, TRAITORS & UNDERCOVER AGENTS. The new online course starts this Thursday — pay what you like! tinyurl.com/secretTOreg
- Reposted by Adam BunchA federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying." "You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
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- Reposted by Adam BunchThe inimitable Catherine O'Hara has died at age 71. From the archives, we revisit her reflections on her early days performing at Second City and on SCTV—and how her work helped shape a fresh, silly and distinctly Torontonian comic sensibility
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- Catherine O’Hara has died at the age of 71, TMZ reports. (www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...)
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- It begins next Thursday! SECRET TORONTO: SPIES, TRAITORS & UNDERCOVER AGENTS explores true tales of espionage, betrayal and conspiracy from the city's past — in four online lectures. Pay what you like! tinyurl.com/secretTOreg
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- Reposted by Adam BunchEverything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.
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- Reposted by Adam Bunch"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.
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- Reposted by Adam BunchSigns about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.
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- I use this as part of my research all the time
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- Tonight!
- This Wednesday night — I'll be sharing stories from Toronto's shadowy Victorian criminal underworld! It's free over Zoom thanks to the Simcoe County Historical Association. Learn more: www.simcoecountyhistory.ca/speaker-seri...
- Reposted by Adam BunchTFW you realize in the longue duree historians will view the fall of the Soviet and US empires as basically taking place simultaneously
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- James Acaster at Massey Hall
- This Wednesday night — I'll be sharing stories from Toronto's shadowy Victorian criminal underworld! It's free over Zoom thanks to the Simcoe County Historical Association. Learn more: www.simcoecountyhistory.ca/speaker-seri...
- Reposted by Adam BunchThe ambassador should be called to the carpet on this. No canadian should set foot in America. This is an escalation.
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- Reposted by Adam BunchSpiraling into law. The spiral staircase in the American Room in Osgoode Hall, probably the nicest library room in the city. #Toronto #EastCoastKing #Architecture #BlueSkyArtShow #OsgoodeHall #TOhistory #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks #library
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