Of course I didn't have my little digital camera with me to take lots of photos on that trip - it was 1982 - the image above is from google's cache. The image below is from this site and shows the Royal York Hotel, one of the grand old railway hotels - but not the iconic CN Tower, which was once the world's tallest building (553.33m). I'd like to go to the museums in Toronto - especially ROM (the Royal Ontario Museum), which in addition to "world culture" galleries has a collection of 50,000 textile and costume pieces, of which about 200 are on show at any time. One of its publications, Cut My Cote, has been on my bookshelves since about 1980. It's by Canadian textile expert Dorothy K Burnham and deals with the relation of the cut of garments to the width of cloth in traditional cultures. Dorothy worked at ROM from 1929 to 1977. Toronto's newspaper, the Globe and Mail, had a good obituary of her (11 November 2004) but it's not available online [why?], nor - like so many textile people - does she have an entry in Wikipedia [why?].
16 November 2008
Toronto
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Aha - I see a retirement activity in the offing. You could register with wikipedia and, with your skills, deluge them with textile related entries!
What a good idea, Linda.
BTW I can't remember where you do come from, Margaret? Did I miss something in the post?
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