Mike Filey's "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Suncontinues to be one of the paper's most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 4, the fourth volume in Dundurn Press's Toronto Sketchesseries, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns.

Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city's people and places of the past, Toronto Sketchesis a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer.