This friendship agreement between Toronto and Kyiv, signed on July 29, 1991, was revised a few months later to change the word "Ukraine" to "the new independent Ukraine." Ukraine's 34th Independence Day is tomorrow. ow.ly/MzWa50SYL3g ow.ly/As3j50SYL3f #TorontoArchives

Honey Dew Orange Drink!! Hotdogs!! Chicken!! Exclamation points!! Food excitement at the #CNE fifty years ago. ow.ly/jHzH50SJAKE #TOhistory #TorontoArchives

Happy #InternationalDogDay! These two very good puppers were champions at the Exhibition's dog show 100 years ago. The Pomeranian was named Parivalo Ambrigold, and the St. Bernard was named Nydia. ow.ly/PyZ450T1qA5 #DogDay #LetsGoToTheEx #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

#OnThisDay in Price's Lane, 1914. This alley, now known as Barnaby Place, ran from Elizabeth Street to Elm Street in the neighbourhood just east of The Ward. ow.ly/xfUl50T5iBA #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

Demonstration 140 years ago at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition (precursor to the CNE) of Canada's first electric railway, a motorized flatcar, set up by J.J. Wright’s Toronto Electric Light Company and electrical engineer Charles Van Depoele. ow.ly/Yamx50T4n4l #TOhistory

Don Station was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1896 and once stood on Queen Street at the Don River. It's now located in Roundhouse Park. Photo by Peter Mintz, #OTD in 2012. ow.ly/4C2K50T3muq #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

100 years ago at the Sunnyside stop of the "bathing cars" - streetcars organized by The Toronto Railway Company which ferried children around the city free of charge to supervised swimming spots in summer. ow.ly/GZyk50T4joj #TOhistory #NationalBeachDay

Building a bridge to the future: #OnThisDay 100 years ago, the Public Works Department was constructing the St. Clair East viaduct over Yellow Creek. ow.ly/VX6L50T37pG #OTD #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

#DYK that the CNE used to include an annual art show? The Graphic Art and Photography Building stood on the present-day location of the Queen Elizabeth Building from 1902 to 1955. ow.ly/fO3350T59zT #LetsGoToTheEx #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

Have a very relaxing long weekend! The City of Toronto Archives will be closed Saturday through Monday, and re-open on Tuesday, September 3, at 9 am.

Welcome back to school! If this were 1928 and you were going to Swansea Public School, this is what your classroom would look like. ow.ly/1Syq50T8LTy #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

View over U of T Scarborough’s Andrews Building in its opening year, 1966. Named for the architect John Andrews, the globally recognized Science and Humanities Wing was the first building on the new campus. ow.ly/GeiA50T9ULm #TOhistory #TorontoArchives

A view of the Toronto skyline from student housing at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University), 1982. Photo by Avard Woolaver. gencat.eloquent-systems.com/city-of-toront… #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

Reuniting with your besties on the playground like it's the Jarvis Street Junior Vocational School in 1930. ow.ly/BbEm50T8LPH #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

Venues from the #TIFF inaugural year, 1976! Films were screened across the Ontario Place Cinesphere, Uptown's Backstage theatres on Balmuto Street, and the New Yorker theatre at 651 Yonge St. ow.ly/BmzZ50Tb15n ow.ly/tKFu50Tb15l ow.ly/4X7G50Tb15m #TOhistory

Pages and ushers at the Uptown Theatre, September, 1924. ow.ly/NFBj50T9KhO #TIFF24 #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

An outdoor classroom at High Park Forest School, 1928. This school, originally established for tubercular children, evolved to serve a variety of physically frail and underprivileged kids until 1963. ow.ly/hNaM50T8Nz1 #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

A busy scene at the McCormick Recreation Centre Library in 1916. At the time, this was the largest community recreation centre in Toronto, with around 120,000 annual visitors. gencat.eloquent-systems.com/city-of-toront… #ReadABookDay #TOhistory