In memoriam: Eb Zeidler, architect, 1926-2022
From the Rogers building to Ontario Place, he gave us fabulous architecture that left an enormous mark on the look and feel of the postmodern city
Richard Longley
January 16, 2022
From the Rogers building to Ontario Place, he gave us fabulous architecture that left an enormous mark on the look and feel of the postmodern city
Toronto’s bronze memorial to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery during the Second World War was the third to be unveiled outside Korea
The tracking of cases was done on paper with colour-coded post-it notes – Toronto was using 19th-century tools to fight a 21st-century disease
The author of four books on Toronto’s architectural heritage reached beyond the bricks, mortar and masonry of heritage preservation
They might be less interesting than a strip mall, but in Toronto they are becoming the default method of architectural conservation
The most lethal pandemic in history claimed the lives of some 50,000 Canadians, almost as many as died in the First World War
From Jumbo The Elephant to the haunting of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Hamilton’s civic architecture, we offer a long list of must-see heritage landmarks to take in this summer
Life after the Second World War was supposed to be safer and modern, where the only things to fear were communists, nuclear war and abduction by aliens from outer space, but children were being paralyzed by polio in droves
If a vaccine for COVID-19 is discovered, it will surely be by a team that will include players of genius who share the strengths of John Gerald FitzGerald, an almost forgotten pioneer of vaccine research in Canada
Disease was rampant and a foul stench hovered over the city that had been labelled one of the dirtiest and unhealthiest on the continent