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The Monkey's Paw is an independent used bookstore in Toronto, Ontario, Canada known for its eclectic, arcane, and absurd books, and for the Biblio-Mat, a random book vending machine. [1] Owner Stephen Fowler founded The Monkey's Paw in 2006, four years after he moved to Toronto from San Francisco, where he worked in numerous bookstores.
Two medium-sized rivers are contained entirely within Toronto's boundaries - Highland Creek (although part of its watershed contains a portion of southern Markham), and Taylor-Massey Creek which is a tributary of the Don River, East Branch. Mimico Creek, and Etobicoke Creek are minor streams which originate in Brampton and Mississauga.
The Humber River is a river in Southern Ontario, Canada. [2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin, is a tributary of Lake Ontario and is one of two major rivers on either side of the city of Toronto, the other being the Don River to the east. It was designated a Canadian Heritage River on September 24, 1999. [3]
Etobicoke Creek / ɛ ˈ t oʊ b ɪ k oʊ / ⓘ is a river in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. [1] It is a tributary of Lake Ontario and runs from Caledon to southern Etobicoke, part of the City of Toronto. The creek is within the jurisdiction of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
Mimico Creek is a stream that flows through Brampton, Mississauga and Toronto in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. [1] It is 33 kilometres (21 mi) long, is in the Great Lakes Basin, and is a tributary of Lake Ontario.
The Ojibwe Mississauga name of the creek in modern orthography is Zhingwaatigotigweyaa-ziibi. [ 5 ] The French missionaries from Ganatsekwyagon , who reached the stream in 1670, called it Riviere au Saumon , meaning the "Salmon River", because of a large number of salmon fish that spawned there.
Coles is a Canadian bookstore chain owned by Indigo Books and Music.Coles is Indigo's brand for small-scale bookstores in locations such as shopping malls.Some locations are operated as SmithBooks, and the company has recently begun to open selected small-format locations as "IndigoSpirit".
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and the University Archives didn't have a permanent home until 1973 when the Thomas Fisher Rare Book library was opened. The library is named in honour of Thomas Fisher (1792–1874), who immigrated from Yorkshire , settled along the Humber River in 1822, and became a successful merchant ...