Tourists, honeymoon couples, traffic jams and wax museums. These might come to mind when we think of Niagara Falls. But in winter Niagara Falls is transformed into a peaceful, frozen wonderland that has attracted tourists for decades. Lamp posts, trees and buildings near the falls are turned into natural pieces of art that change every year. Below are highlights from Digital Archive Ontario, a database of over 170,000 digitized photos, maps and more from Toronto Public Library.
Vintage Food and Cigarette Cards at the Toronto Reference Library
One of the many treasures located in the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre is a collection of vintage food and cigarette cards, ephemeral artifacts from a time when smoking was much more commonplace than it is today (food, on the other hand, is still quite popular). In 1875 an American tobacco company named Allen…
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