I just finished reading 'Toronto' by Bruce West (1967).
It made me misty-eyed towards my city's past and a wish to read about the 53 years since.

Here is another city book, From Police Headquarters by newspaper reporter Jocko Thomas (1990).

Here too, is an autobiography by the Maple Leafs' Darryl Sittler (approx. 1991)

In the 1830s' it was Black Joe, as the sheriff's assistant, who delivered the lashings on market day? https://books.google.com/books?id=tpovAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=%22Black+Joe%22&source=bl&ots=7GtJ_4CIoF&sig=ACfU3U2T8hNe9hsEkXh5OpRI6LvOy4sT_w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB4MjPiJDtAhWSm-AKHTwVBlwQ6AEwAHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Black%20Joe%22&f=false

For example, I never heard of Toronto mayor Don Summerville who died (1963) of a heart attack within a year of being elected.

I didn't know Metro Toronto chairman Fred Gardiner's nickname was 'Big Daddy' nor that he was appointed rather than elected.

I did know about the Noronic's 1949 fire tragedy but that there wasn't a single Toronto death involved.
I hadn't heard about the 120 Torontonians / 469 Cdns who were on board when the Athenia was torpedoed during the very first weekend of WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Athenia_(1922)#Loss

Simpsons and Eaton's department stores switched their original locations at Queen & Yonge Street? Yup.

Who knew that Timothy Eaton's nephew had opened his own dept. store business, just two blocks south, called The John Eaton Co. ?

Who was R. Howard Webster? https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1955/4/30/the-unknown-man-who-bought-the-globe-and-mail

What happened to theatre owner Ambrose Small in Dec. 1919?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Ambrose_Small#Disappearance