Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto
Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the
newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later,
Filey's column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the
newspaper's most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were
reprinted in Toronto Sketches: "The Way We Were." Since then another
eight volumes of Toronto Sketches have been published, each of which
has attained great success.
This 10th volume highlights some of Toronto's greatest landmarks such as
the Don Jail and its graves and Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island. Mike
also steps back in time to revisit the Avrocar, the flying saucer of the
Great White North; takes a peek at Miss Toronto of 1926; conjures up The
Hollywood, the city's first "talkie" theatre; and recalls historic snow
days Canada's largest city has experienced.