The Star

Even in Toronto, the 1920s was a decade that roared. For the first time, the population surpassed half a million, more than twice what it was at the turn of the century, and the future stretched ahead forever. While civic leaders here were putting together the basic framework of what would become the 21st-century metropolis, artists and architects in Europe were inventing modernity. Inevitably, the two would collide and create the world we inhabit today.