The Archives hosts exhibits and events throughout the year. Find out what’s on.
The Canadian National Exhibition is an odd and encompassing consumer capitalistic ritual that emerges from a giant parking lot to mark the end of summer each year. Toronto-based artist Kristan Klimczak has photographed the fair since 2015.
Klimczak will discuss and present selected images from her long term project, ‘The Ex’. Following the talk, visitors can explore selected original archival records relating to the CNE from the City of Toronto Archives’ collections.
Toronto’s post-war era was marked by a long period of optimism and prosperity, which among other things, resulted in massive architectural projects emblematic of the city’s wealth and modernist ambitions. The years between 1960 and 1989 witnessed the city’s downtown core transformed through large-scale land redevelopments. These projects were made possible by the sudden availability of railway lands, changes in architecture and engineering, and the growth of Toronto’s banking and financial sector. This exhibit explores the impact of these visionary decades, and the demolitions of older city blocks that resulted. The structures that arose in their place forever changed the Toronto streetscape.
