Mike Filey

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Mike Filey
Mike Filey, prior to a ceremony at the Distillery Loop, 2016 06 18 (27751979955) (cropped).jpg
Born 1941
Occupation journalist and historian

Mike Filey is a journalist and historian living and working in Toronto, Canada.[1] According to his friend Alan Parker, another columnist at the Toronto Sun, Filey is known as “Toronto’s best-known historian”.

In 2009 the Etobicoke Historical Society granted him the Jean Hibbert Memorial Award.[2]

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Publications

  1. Mike Filey. Toronto Sketches 11: "The Way We Were", Dundurn Press, p. 161. Retrieved on 2016-07-31.


References

  1. Alan Parker. Five Questions for Mike Filey, Toronto Sun, 2008-11-09. Retrieved on 2016-07-24. “As a researcher, writer and raconteur, Mike has been chronicling the life and times — past and present —of the beloved city of his birth for four decades. He’s been called “Toronto’s best-known historian” — and deservedly so.”
  2. Mike Filey - 2009 Recipient of The Jean Hibbert Memorial Award, Etobicoke Historical Society. Retrieved on 2016-07-24. “However, over 25 years ago now, Mike turned his interests to his true vocation – researching, documenting and speaking about Toronto's history.”
  3. Mike Filey. Toronto Sketches 11: "The Way We Were", Dundurn Press, p. 161. Retrieved on 2016-07-31.
  4. Neilly, Peter (January 2007). Out to Lunch - With Mike Filey. This Is Livin' Publishing. Retrieved on October 8, 2016.