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The origin of Toronto Sketches, “The Way We Were,” this being Volume 11 in the series, goes back to the late summer of 1971 when the editor of the real estate section of Toronto’s now-defunct Telegram newspaper asked me to provide a few lines of text and a couple of photographs to fill space that had resulted from an insufficient number of ads being sold. This arrangement went on for a few months until the good old Tely finally folded. Within days, a new kid, the Toronto Sun, appeared in news boxes around town. Perhaps desperate for material to fill the struggling tabloid, the Toronto Sun made my columns a semi-regular feature. Then, with the introduction of the Sunday Sun in 1973, “The Way We Were” became a weekly feature. And the rest, they say, is history — at least eleven volumes’ worth so far!

Many of my earlier columns have been reproduced in volumes 1 through 10 of this series. The columns in this book originally appeared in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Appended to each column is the date it first appeared as well as any relevant material that may have surfaced since that date (indicated by an asterisk).