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Video artist and social critic Richard Fung is one of the nine contemporary artists who have shared their first impressions of Toronto with us for First Impressions: Telling Toronto Stories. This is a joint project of Toronto Arts Council and Heritage Toronto appearing on the TTC throughout 2009 and 2010, through the support of RBC.

From the Library of Congress

Emma Goldman: 1869-1940

Anarchist, Activist and Author

"The public and university libraries in Toronto were lacking in modern works on the social, education, and psychological problems occupying the best minds. 'We do not buy books we consider immoral,' a local librarian was reported as saying."

(Living My Life - Volume II, 1931)

(Library of Congress)

Lucius O'Brien: 1832–1899

Painter and first President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1880. Came to Toronto from Shanty Bay, Ontario in 1844 to attend Upper Canada College

"Toronto is the best art centre in Canada at present and there are more artists here than anywhere else."

(Letter to Robert Harris, 1879)(Archives of Ontario)

Composer Juliet Palmer is one of the nine contemporary artists who have shared their first impressions of Toronto with us for First Impressions: Telling Toronto Stories. This is a joint project of Toronto Arts Council and Heritage Toronto appearing as a series of posters on the TTC throughout 2009 and 2010, through the support of RBC.

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“Ideas and methods to the left of normal”

Los Angeles Times

“A postmodernist with a conscience”

The Listener

Theatre artist Soheil Parsa is one of the nine contemporary artists who have shared their first impressions of Toronto with us for First Impressions: Telling Toronto Stories. This is a joint project of Toronto Arts Council and Heritage Toronto appearing as a series of posters on the TTC throughout 2009 and 2010, through the support of RBC.

“The work of Modern Times Stage Company is stunning in its simplicity, clarity, and power. Modern Times is one of the most important theatre companies in the country right now, presenting the best of a new, intercultural Canada to the country and the world. Soheil Parsa, a modest man but one of the country's best directors, is a national treasure.”

Ric Knowles, Canadian Theatre Review

Cellist, Conductor, Co-Artistic Director of Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, Dáirine Ní Mheadhra is one of the nine contemporary artists who have shared their first impressions of Toronto with us for First Impressions: Telling Toronto Stories. This is a joint project of Toronto Arts Council and Heritage Toronto appearing as a series of posters on the TTC throughout 2009 and 2010, through the support of RBC.

“The Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company has astonished and thrilled the Toronto opera-going public. I can’t recall attending such a gripping premiere in many years of opera-going.”

Opera UK

“The production was dazzling, its verbal, visual and musical wit unfailingly exuberant and its stunning cast fully in command of the vocal pyrotechnics Sokolovic demands.”

Opera News, New York

“Nothing I’ve reviewed this year has given me such hope for the future of contemporary music theatre –and for humanity itself.”

The National Post

Dancer and choreographer Lata Pada is one of the nine contemporary artists who have shared their first impressions of Toronto with us for First Impressions: Telling Toronto Stories. This is a joint project of Toronto Arts Council and Heritage Toronto appearing on the TTC throughout 2009 and 2010, through the support of RBC.

“One of the few who can successfully translate a thousand year-old tradition into 21st-century realities.” Toronto Star

Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe: 1762–1850, Artist & Diarist

Elizabeth Simcoe is one of the nine historical personalities selected by Heritage Toronto for First Impressions: Telling Toronto Stories. This is a joint project of Toronto Arts Council and Heritage Toronto appearing as a series of posters on the TTC throughout 2009 and 2010, through the support of RBC. Please go to www.heritagetoronto.org for more information on Heritage Toronto.

Pierre Berton, Author, Historian, Journalist & TV Personality

Pierre Berton is one of the nine historical personalities, selected by Heritage Toronto for First Impressions: Telling Toronto Stories. This is a joint project of Toronto Arts Council and Heritage Toronto appearing as a series of posters on the TTC throughout 2009 and 2010, through the support of RBC. Please go to www.heritagetoronto.org for more information on Heritage Toronto.