This is the long Simcoe Holiday Weekend, and Toronto historian Mike Filey describes the very first time we officially called it that – in 1969. He’ll also remember the first time The Mariposa Folk Festival moved to Toronto in 1964, and the opening of Union Station back in 1927.
[Related: The Mariposa Folk Festival: The early Days In Photos]
More great stories of our city’s past this Sunday at 12:30 on Mike Filey’s Toronto, from Zoomer Radio, AM 740.
