HERITAGE RESOURCES
Research your House and Historical Plaques
Research the History of Your House - a Guide by Barb Myrvold
Heritage Toronto - Historical plaques APP
Libraries and Archives
- Digital Archive Digitized books, pictures and maps.
- Toronto Local History New books, databases for historical Toronto newspaper databases, library programs, virtual exhibits, etc.
- Toronto neighbourhoods
Use the map to find digital and in-library resources - Beach (Toronto, Ont.)
- Upper Beach (Toronto, Ont.)
- Danforth (Toronto, Ont.), includes some items from beyond the local area
- Toronto city directories available digitally (1834-1969) and in-library (1833-2001)
- Toronto architecture and buildings
- Toronto maps and fire insurance plans (available digitally and in-library)
- Beaches Branch Local History Collection
- Toronto Mapping Historical Photographs. An open-source map created by Sidewalk Labs that provides block-by-block browsing of more than 30,000 historic Toronto photographs from the City of Toronto Archives.
- Malvern Red and Black Society
Community newspapers
Heritage Conservation Districts
Online local history books
- Beach in Pictures
- Danforth in Pictures (includes some information beyond the local area)
- Historical Walking Tour of Kew Beach by Mary Campbell and Barbara Myrvold
War service
For King and Country is a project to transcribe the war memorials inside TDSB schools. Neighbourhood schools included in this project to date are:
- Adam Beck Public School
- Balmy Beach Public School
- Blantyre Avenue Public School
- Bowmore Road Public School
- Coleman Avenue Public School
- Courcelette Public School
- Earl Beatty Public School
- Earl Haig Public School
- Gledhill Public School
- Kew Beach Public School
- Kimberley Street School
- Malvern Collegiate Institute
- Norway Public School
- Williamson Road School
Updated November 2, 2016.