Welcome to TXTilecity – an interactive project that brings the city to life in stories and memories that show the significant role textiles have played in shaping Toronto’s urban landscape.
Executive Producer
Textile Museum of Canada
Project Funders
Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Interactive Fund
Ontario Trillium Foundation, Community Grants
Project Partners
Year Zero One
[murmur]
Toronto District School Board
Leadership Team
Project Director & Concept Development
Shauna McCabe Executive Director, Textile Museum of Canada
Project Administration
Pat Neal Operations Manager, Textile Museum of Canada
Technical Project Management & Concept Development
Michael Alstad Year Zero One
Communications Lead
Alexandra Lopes Marketing and Communications, Textile Museum of Canada
Education Lead Susan Fohr Educational and Curriculum Programs, Textile Museum of Canada
Creative Development
Patricia Bentley
Natalia Nekrassova
Sarah Quinton
Roxane Shaughnessy
Amber Yared
French Translation
Editext
--- TXTilecity Web Design and Development
Design and Graphics
Michael Alstad, Camille Turner
Logo Design
Alexandra Lopes
Web Development
Collabra
---- TXTilecity App
Project Coordination, User Interface, Graphic Design
Michael Alstad, Camille Turner
Design and Graphics
Michael Alstad, Camille Turner
Logo Design
Alexandra Lopes
App Development
Collabra
---- TXTilecity Street-Level Phone System
Production Coordinator
Robin Elliott
Signage Design
Alexandra Lopes
Voice Over
Robin Elliott
Map Illustration
Dory Kornfeld
Technical Production
Robin Elliott, [murmur]; FluidIT Solutions; Simon Ditner
Original [murmur] Concept
Shawn Micallef, Gabe Sawhney, James Roussel
---- Audio Content
Direction
Robin Elliott
Research, Production, Editing
Robin Elliott, Tim Groves, Alexandra Shimo, Nadia Halim, Rose Bianchini
Photography
Robin Elliott, Tim Groves, Alexandra Shimo, Nadia Halim, Rose Bianchini
Interview Participants
Juliet Palmer, Craig Morrison, Elizabeth Evans, Alisa McRonald, Lewis Kaye, Simon Rabyniuk, Joyce Gunhouse, Judy Cornish, Rick Salutin, Rhya Tamasauskas, Winnie Ng, Marya Follinsbee, Kim Huyn, Elly Green, Neil Brochu, Ken Bontius, Bob Jeffcott, Shelli Oh, Pam Woodward, Barbara Sternberg, Alec Keefer, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Laurell Ritchie, Kingi Carpenter, Maria Vitoria, Adam VanHorne, Giuseppe Bianchini, David Kidd, Karen Dagg, Stacey Paterson
Special Thanks
Dorion Liebgott, Beth Tzedec Museum; City of Toronto Special Collections; Toronto Public Library; Steve Birek; Textile Museum of Canada; Heritage Canada
---- Video Content
Research, Direction, Writing, Production
Camille Turner, Michael Alstad
Research Assistants
Lee Dickson, Karie Liao
Videography, Photography
Brahm Rosensweig, Barbara Greczny, Michael Alstad
Voice Over
Brahm Rosensweig, Camille Turner, Barbara Greczy, Reena Katz
Editors
Brahm Rosensweig, Barbara Greczny
Interview Participants
Linda Lundström, Andy Fabo, Josh Title, Larry Saltsman, Arlene Chan, Anna Chatterton, Damieon Royes, Joe Mimran, Lisa Marie DiLiberto, Jennifer Halchuk, Richard Lyle, Michelle Jacques, Vid Ingelevics, Steven Loft, David Dunkley, Sandra Corazza, Joe Lewis, Pat McDonagh, Chung-Im Kim, Roger McTair, Kate Hartman, Jessica Kasparian, Doug Begoray, Reena Katz, Herman Stewart
Special Thanks
Kyle Neill: City of Toronto Archives, Alex Dagg: Workers United, Maureen Hynes, Donna Bernardo-Ceriz: Ontario Jewish Archives, Dorion Liebgott: Beth Tzedec Museum, Rosemary Donegan, Winnie Ng: Ryerson University, Deborah Barndt: York University, Laurie Belzak: City of Toronto Sector Development Officer, Gerald Tulchinsky, Sarah Quinton, Patricia Neal, Shauna McCabe, David Kidd, Larry Kolton, Howard Podeswa, Sybil Goldstein, Brent Hollowell: Woolrich, Caron Phinney, Ruth Ladovsky, Gerald Tulchinsky
--- Image and music credits by location
+++Art Gallery of Ontario
Germaine Koh - Knitwork, 1992, Performance/installation detail, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1997, photo: David Clearwater
Photo courtesy of the British Museum, 2002
Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario, 2002
Galerie B-312, Montreal February 2012. Photo: Gordon Hicks
Balfour: Balfour Building History
City of Toronto Archives:
T. Eaton Factory 1912, Fonds 1244, Item 7034A
Spadina, King to Adelaide, Fonds 372, Sub-Series 58, Item 1204
Ontario Jewish Archives:
Benjamin Brown with Ben Hillman at Kew Beach, ca. 1912, Fonds 49, item 2
Benjamin Brown in front of the Ostrovzter Synagogue, 1974. Ontario Jewish Archives,
photo #291.
Archives of Ontario:
Eaton's store factory, Toronto, 1901, T. Eaton Co. Fonds
Box 3, F 229-1-0-21
Used with the permission of Sears Canada Inc.
Kheel Center, Cornell University:
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Archives, ILGWU Toronto striking women garment workers, March 25, 1912
Balfour Building: Dressmakers Strike
Ontario Jewish Archives:
Dressmakers General Strike, Dressmakers Union I.L.G.W.U, 1931.
City of Toronto Archives:
Fonds 1266, Item 23261
Fonds 1266, Item 23262
Fonds 124, File 124, Item 1000, id0026
Balfour Building: WTF
Ontario Jewish Archives:
S. Kelman Furs, Fashion Building, ca. 1935, Fonds 12, item 26
City of Toronto Archives:
Fonds 1244, Item 601
Toronto City Hall image (Creative Commons)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/97373666@N00/4024626320/
Balfour Building: Cate and Levi
Photos courtesy of Josh Title, Cate & Levi
Big It Up
Photos courtesy of the Big It Up collection
Music courtesy of Partners in Rhyme
The Bay/Simpsons
Flora MacDonald Denison
Toronto Public Library Collection:
Robert Simpson Co. Department Store, Yonge & Queen Street, 1895 - public domain
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Flora MacDonald Denison papers [manuscript] 1898-1921 Ontario Parks: Bon Echo
Steven Loft: Hudson’s Bay Blanket
Hudson’s Bay Company Archives - Archives of Manitoba
Blackfoot Indians dressed in HBC blankets ca. 1925, HBCA 1987/363-W-114/12.
HBC point blankets in Kwakiutl Indian house at Fort Rupert, 1898, HBCA 1987/363-W-114/6
Rebecca Belmore’s The Blanketimages courtesy of Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg
+++Berkeley Castle - Joseph Simpson Knitting Mills
Archival site photos courtesy of Berkeley Castle Investments:
https://www.berkleycastle.ca
Alexander Turnbull Library: reference number MNZ-0704-1/4
Lia Cook exhibition photos courtesy of the Textile Museum of Canada
Exhibition photos of Berkeley Castle Gallery exhibition ‘Telling Tales: Narrative Woven Textiles’ courtesy of Joe Lewis
+++Bluebird Building
Painting images courtesy of Howard Podeswa from the exhibition: Sole of a Shoe: Three Generations of Painting Chaim Pinchas Podeszwa, Yidel Podeswa, Howard Podeswa
Photos courtesy of Paloma Blanca
1943 War Department Film Bulletin No 48 produced by the Signal Corps Photographic Center
ChromaZone Video Credits Excerpts from: CHROMAZONE/CHROMATIQUE 1981-1986 Producer/Director: Sybil Goldstein, 2011
Photography: George Whiteside & Tony Wilson
Support: Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art & Ontario Arts Council
Full version on:
https://www.ccca.ca
General Idea image (Creative Commons):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hragvartanian/2660277144/
Club Monaco
Photography: Patrick Cummins
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32175940@N06/
Currie Neckwear
City of Toronto Archives:
Series 230, Item 148 - Film Clip on the Fire of 1904 from the Library and Archives Canada
Yonge Street looking north from Temperance, Fonds 1568, Item 311
Images from Triangle fire courtesy of Mike Stout and the Human Union's video "The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire."
Darling Building
All images are from Toronto Star, 1934 - Public Library archive.
Voice over: Reena Katz
"Strike" sound sample from Occupy Oakland's General Assembly on October 26, 2011 as Uploaded by OakFoShoon YouTube.
Freesound: www.freesound.org for the other sounds.
+++Eaton’s Factory
City of Toronto Archives: 61 to 65 Terauley, 1912. Series 372, ss0032_it0036
Archives of Ontario - T. Eaton Company fonds:
Fall-Winter Catalogue, showing Yonge Street store, Toronto, 1884, Item Reference Code: F 229-1-0-1, Digital Image Number: I0028249
Eaton's stores and factories, Date: [between 1900 and 1925], Item Reference Code: F 229-308-0-371, Digital Image Number: I0012625.jpg
Interior of one of the Eaton's factories, Eaton's department store, Toronto, 1901, Item Reference Code: F 229-1-0-21
Eaton's employees at work in the harness factory, 1910, Item Reference Code: F 229-308-0-372, Digital Image Number: I0012351.JPG
Eaton's employees at work in the millinery work room, 1910, Item Reference Code: F 229-308-0-372, Digital Image Number: I0012361.JPG
Eaton's employees at work in the designing and cutting room, making ladies' clothing
Item Reference Code: F 229-308-0-372, Digital Image Number: I0012359.JPG
Eaton's employees at work cutting men's clothing Date: [ca. 1910], Item Reference Code: F 229-308-0-372, Digital Image Number: I0012358.JPG
Eaton's employees at work making ladies' waists Date: [ca. 1910], Item Reference Code: F 229-308-0-372, Digital Image Number: I0012357.JPG
Music by Torley on Piano, Solo piano 7: Improvisations for a New Age
+++Labor Lyceum: 33 Cecil Street
Workers United: ILGWU strike photos and archival images, photographed by Lisa Sakulensky
Labor Lyceum: 346 Spadina
Ontario Jewish Archives:
Cloakmakers Union, Branch 16, Labor League, [193-], photo #1625. Courtesy of the Estate of Max Speisman.
Lecture notice for speech by Emma Goldman "The Youth in Revolt" at the Labor Lyceum, between 1928 and 1935, photo #3656.
Henry Dworkin’s share certificate in Toronto Labor Lyceum Association, 1920, accession #2006-1/2.
Toronto Labor Lyceum Association First Annual Fruit Ball poster, 1927, photo #4042.
1935 Federal Election Campaign pin, fonds 92, series 3, file 3.
1943 Provincial Election Campaign poster, fonds 92, series 3, file 12.
City of Toronto Archives:
Slum courtyard. 142 Agnes Street. (November 26, 1913) Series 372, Sub Series 32, Item 259
Slum – Price’s Lane (August 27, 1914) Series 372, Sub Series 32, Item 320
United Bakers Spadina shop photo courtesy of The Ladovsky Family of United Bakers
ILGWU photo courtesy of Workers United
EATON’S WINDOW DISPLAYS
A selection of images from “The Magnificent, The Merry and The Mundane: The Display Windows of the Eaton’s Department Store” an Ontario Archives online exhibition curated by Vid Ingelevics
Archives of Ontario - T. Eaton Co. fonds:
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-2155, Digital Image Number: I0028815
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1868, Digital Image Number: I0028539
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1903, Digital Image Number: I0028884
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-2145, Digital Image Number: I0028813
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1193, Digital Image Number: I0028664
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1194, Digital Image Number: I0028669
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1911, Digital Image Number: I0028901
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1905, Digital Image Number: I0028896
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1906, Digital Image Number: I0028898
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-2129, Digital Image Number: I0028971
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1200, Digital Image Number: I0028933
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-318, Digital Image Number: I0028438
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1201, Digital Image Number: I0028957
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1198, Digital Image Number: I0028684
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-2149, Digital Image Number: I0028854
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-2149, Digital Image Number: I0028854
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1204, Digital Image Number: I0028751
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1205, Digital Image Number: I0028758
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1177, Digital Image Number: I0028586
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1862, Digital Image Number: I0028463
Reference Code: F 229-308-0-1207, Digital Image Number: I0029137
Linda Lundström: Soho/Phoebe
Images courtesy of Linda Lundström Works
Music courtesy of Jamendo - Creative Commons license
Linda Lundström: Tower Building
Image of Gertrude Kahan courtesy of A Common Thread - a History of Toronto’s Garment Industrycurated by Dorian Liebgott - Beth Tzedec Reuben and Helene Dennis Museum
Livingstone & Johnston
City of Toronto Archives:
W.R. Johnston & Co Ltd. fonds 1231, Item 1749
Series 372, subseries 100, item 109
Series 372, subseries 52, item 642
Series 71, item 8454
Fonds 1244, item 7348
Fonds 1231, item 2171
Fonds 1231, item 477
Malabar
Music courtesy of Jamendo Album #052441 Carlo Tamponi, Vivaldi baroque music
McGregor Socks
Photos courtesy of McGregor Socks
City of Toronto Archives:
56 – 58 Elizabeth St. fond 200 series 372 subseries 33 item 171
109 - 111 Elizabeth St. fonds 200 series 372 subseries 33 item 161
Spadina Ave north from Front St. fond 1231, item 1111
MERCY
Photos courtesy of Woolrich, Inc.
Ceridwen [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Miss Burnett French Millinery
City of Toronto Archives:
Fonds 1244, item 1113
Fonds 1244, item 10042
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 0058
Fonds 1568, item 0039
Fonds 200, series 376, file 1, item 93b
Fonds 1231, item 0494
Moore’s Occidental Cleaning Store
Archives of Ontario:
Toronto Telegram fonds, ASC06307
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) black porter, 925 (RG 2-71 VS-15)
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) black porter, 1925 (RG 2-71 VS-14)
Spadina Avenue, Toronto [ca. 1922] (RG 9-7-5-0-49)
City of Toronto Archives:
fonds 1244, item 7348
fonds 1231, item 2171
fonds 1231, item 477
fonds 1231, item 476
fonds 1231, item 2050
series 71 item 3540
series 71 item 3532
MS Originals
Casablanca photo (CC): https://www.flickr.com/photos/urban-angel/
Pattern (CC): https://www.flickr.com/photos/h_is_for_home/
Alfred Sung pic (CC): https://www.thesoulsofmyshoes.com
OCAD - McCaul Street
The Wonder of Stem Cells - Ontario Science Centre, Idea Gallery: Anjali Jaywar, Colleen McCarten, Hayley Sherman, Theresa Duong
Talk to Me - Oldouz Moslemian
Warm Me -Oldouz Moslemian
OCAD - Richmond Street
Rachel Kess, Soft Robot (blink)
Erin Lewis, Earthquake Skirt
Loretta Faveri, Chance Operations of the Body – beyond Cage and Cunningham
Pat McDonagh
Images courtesy of Pat McDonagh Couture
Sammy Taft Hats
City of Toronto Archives
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4427
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4431
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4377
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4400
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4425
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4424
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4406
Fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4383
fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4396
fonds 1257, series 1057, item 4378
Photo of Sammy Taft shop and window display courtesy of Patrick Cummins
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32175940@N06/
Standard Woolen Mills - Canadian Opera Company
Alexander Turnbull Library: reference # MNZ-0704-1/4
Sketches courtesy of the Canadian Opera Company - Tosca’s set and costume designer Kevin Knight
+++Turco-Persian Rugs
City of Toronto Archives, Series 0372 Subseries 0041 Item 0798
Photos of Turco-Persian staff and Mrs. Eaton courtesy of Turco-Persian Rug Company
Urban Outfitters
The Tale of the Town Queen West photo and video documentation courtesy of FIXT POINT
https://fixtpoint.com
Music courtesy of https://www.jamendo.com/en/album/992
TRANS NEW WAVE by https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/adc.level
ADC LEVELS NEW WAVE by https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/adc.level ADC LEVEL
W.R. Johnston
City of Toronto Archives:
fonds 1231, Item 1749
series 372, subseries 100, item 109
series 372, subseries 52, item 642
series 71, item 8454
fonds 1244, item 7348
fonds 1231, item 2171
fonds 1231, item 477
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