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Ernest Hemingway in Toronto, Part I: Online Resources

By Lisa Tyler

If you are planning to attend the Hemingway Society Conference in Toronto in July, or just wish you were, you might find the suggested online resources below interesting.  The topics covered include Hemingway’s early journalism, his Canadian network, and the birth of his first child.  Please note that this list is a starting point and is not intended to be comprehensive.

Hemingway Review Blog Posts from Canada Correspondent Sharon Hamilton

“Hemingway and Toronto Baseball,” by Sharon Hamilton.  The Hemingway Review Blog. The Hemingway Foundation and Society, Jan. 15, 2026.  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/hemingway-and-toronto-baseball

“Hadley, Ernest, and the Canadian Mothers’ Book, Part I,” by Sharon Hamilton.  The Hemingway Review Blog.  The Hemingway Foundation and Society, 26 April 2024.  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/hadley-ernest-and-canadian-mothers-book-part-i

“Hadley, Ernest, and the Canadian Mothers’ Book, Part II,” by Sharon Hamilton.  The Hemingway Review Blog.  The Hemingway Foundation and Society.  8 May 2024.  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/hadley-ernest-and-canadian-mothers-book-part-ii

“The Birth of Hemingway’s First Child—John, Called Bumby—in Toronto, Canada, Part I,” by Sharon Hamilton.  The Hemingway Review Blog.  The Hemingway Foundation and Society.  30 Oct. 2023.  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/birth-hemingways-first-child-john-called-bumby-toronto-canada-part-i

“The Birth of Hemingway’s First Child—John, Called Bumby—in Toronto, Canada, Part II,” by Sharon Hamilton.  The Hemingway Review Blog.  The Hemingway Foundation and Society.  10 Nov. 2023.  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/birth-hemingways-first-child-john-called-bumby-toronto-canada-part-ii

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“James M. Hutchisson on Hemingway in 1923.”  One True Podcast.  16 Jan. 2023.  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/james-m-hutchisson-hemingway-1923

“Suzanne del Gizzo on ‘Christmas on the Roof of the World.’” One True Podcast.  23 Dec. 2021.  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/suzanne-del-gizzo-christmas-roof-world

“Robert W. Trogdon on the Early Years.”  One True Podcast.  7 Sept. 2020.  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/robert-w-trogdon-early-years

Web Sites

Boles, Frank.  “Ralph Connable.”  Clarke Historical Library News and Notes. 18 Oct. 2017.  https://www.clarkehistoricallibrary.org/2017/10/ralph-connable.html

“Ernest Hemingway’s Toronto Ties.”  Toronto Public Library.  20 Sept. 2023.  https://blogs.tpl.ca/local-history-genealogy/2023/09/ernest-hemingways-toronto-ties/

“Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961” [Hemingway’s Toronto Star articles}.  Archive of American Journalism.  Undated.  http://www.historicjournalism.com/ernest-hemingway-1.html

Hamilton, Sharon.  “The Young Man and the Spree: When Hemingway Was Dispatched to Kingston.”  (Review of We Were the Bullfighters, a novel about Ernest Hemingway in Canada).  Literary Review of Canada, Oct. 2024.  https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2024/10/the-young-man-and-the-spree/

Miller, Marianne K., and Hilary Justice.  “Toronto.”  Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.  https://www.jfklibrary.org/hemingway/toronto

Williams, Tom.  “The Day Hemingway Quit.” Letter to the editor.   Los Angeles Times 19 April 1992.  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-19-bk-639-story.html

Zarevich, Emily.  “The Editor Who Drove Hemingway Away.”  JSTOR Daily, JSTOR, 6 Jan. 2025.  https://daily.jstor.org/the-editor-who-drove-hemingway-away/

Videos

“Ernest Hemingway, the Reporter Years.”  Toronto Star.  YouTube.  15 Aug. 2017.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_1VqhdwRxU

“Hemingway in Toronto:  A Hemingway Society Webinar featuring Sharon Hamilton.”  YouTube.  The Hemingway Foundation and Society, 10 Oct. 2023.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUpkCmkChq4

“Hemingway vs. Callaghan Trailer.”  Shaftesbury Films.  YouTube.  10 Dec. 2013.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-m0rnewp8

“Hemingway’s Toronto Homes.”  Toronto Star.  YouTube.  12 Sept. 2017.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8amlco-B1_I   

                                                                       To be continued . . .

Lisa Tyler recently retired after a 32-year career as an English professor at an urban community college in Dayton, Ohio.  She serves as secretary on the board of the Hemingway Society and edits the Society’s Hemingway Review Blog.

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One True Podcast – Boris Vejdovsky on “Homage to Switzerland” – The Hemingway Society

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    Boris Vejdovsky on “Homage to Switzerland”

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    One True Podcast is back with a look at another Hemingway short story, an under-discussed gem from Winner Take Nothing. One of the weirdest works in his career, “Homage to Switzerland” is a Modernist experiment that tells a similar story three times, each one set in a different Swiss train station. 

    To walk us through this bizarre tale, we call on excellent Hemingway scholar and actual citizen of Switzerland, Boris Vejdovksy, professor at the University of Lausanne. Vejdovksy explains the story’s structure, its setting, its Modernist qualities, the way the iceberg principle functions in the story, and even its “Swiss-ness.”

    Join us as we explore this fascinating triptych!

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    Ross K. Tangedal on Hemingway in 1926 -The Hemingway Society

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    January 01, 2026

    Happy New Year from One True Podcast! We look forward to a rich, exciting 2026 by looking back to 1926.

    In our first show of the year, we ask an esteemed guest to take us back exactly one hundred years to see what was happening in Hemingway’s life, work, and world. So, to guide us through Hemingway’s 1926 — his travels, his relationships, his publishing, and his writing – we welcome the great Hemingway scholar Ross K. Tangedal. 

    For Hemingway, 1926 was a colossally important year that saw his transition from Hadley to his second wife, Pauline; the transition from Boni & Liveright to Scribner’s; and the publication of The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises, both crucially important for different reasons. Tangedal guides us through this remarkable year in Hemingway’s life and his writing. We have previously begun calendar years with flashback episodes featuring: Mary Dearborn on 1922; James M. Hutchisson on 1923; Verna Kale on 1924; and J. Gerald Kennedy on 1925. We encourage you to check out those past shows to get up to date!

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    Suzanne del Gizzo on “Christmas in Paris” – One True Podcast – The Hemingway Society

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    Suzanne del Gizzo on “Christmas in Paris”

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    December 18, 2025

    Thank you for making 2025 such a special year for One True Podcast! Together, we devoted shows to the centenary of In Our Time, to our One True Book Club discussion of W.H. Hudson’s The Purple Land, to the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, and to so much more. We’re so grateful to all of our amazing guests for enriching and enlivening our program, and to all of our listeners for their loyalty.

    As our gift back to you, we close 2025 in our favorite of ways: we welcome Suzanne del Gizzo onto the show to discuss a season-appropriate piece of Hemingway’s work. This year, we discuss “Christmas in Paris,” Hemingway’s poignant, melancholy sketch describing a young couple away from home for the holidays.

    Before we welcome in Suzanne, old friend Mackenzie Astin narrates Hemingway’s “Christmas in Paris” to put us in the spirit. Make sure you keep listening after the episode to be treated to a rendition of “Noël à Paris,” performed by Bill Hemminger (piano) and Melody Winfrey (vocals).

    Wishing you all happiness over the holidays, and we’ll see you on the other side.

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    Mojitos at La Concha Hotel – A Key West Adventure, Part 1 – The Hemingway Society

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    ​​​​​​​By John Hargrove and Sharon Hamilton

    “There it is!” John said, pointing excitedly out across the water. Rising seven stories tall, from an island along the horizon slowly growing more visible in size as we approached, was an unmistakable pinkish-white building. We were returning to Key West aboard the ferry Yankee Freedom III, which takes visitors 70 miles west of the island to a set of keys known as the Dry Tortugas, and just coming into our view was a sight Hemingway had seen nearly one hundred years earlier—the La Concha Hotel.

    La Concha Hotel, as seen today (Photo credit:  John Hargrove)

    “I see it!” Sharon replied, equally excited.

    In 1926, a developer named Carl Aubuchon opened what would be the first of its kind: a luxury hotel on Key West.1 Considered the epitome of elegance and modern convenience (with marble floors, private baths, an elevator, and stunning ocean views), the La Concha Hotel was at the time a jaw-dropping achievement, and was—just as it still is today—the tallest building on the island. Located at the corner of Duval and Fleming Streets, this “skyscraper” was the first glimpse and suggestion of an exotic downtown for travelers by ship toward the Caribbean island that is celebrated as the southernmost point in the contiguous United States;2 and it was exactly the sight that greeted Ernest and Pauline Hemingway as they sailed aboard a Peninsular & Occidental steamer from Havana, Cuba, into Key West Harbor, in April 1928.

    A view of Key West Harbor at Trumbo Point, as Hemingway would have seen it, circa 1934. The La Concha Hotel is visible on the left (marked with an arrow) as well as the three wireless radio towers (which are barely visible). The hotel and the towers were landmarks for sailing vessels (Photo credit: G. Everett Perpall)

    Hemingway would later immortalize the way the hotel looms above the island, when he wrote: “Then we came to the edge of the stream and the water quit being blue and was light and greenish and inside I could see the stakes on the Eastern and the Western Dry Rocks and the wireless masts at Key West and the La Concha hotel up high out of all the low houses,” followed by, “Ahead now he could see the white of the La Concha hotel, the wireless masts, and houses of town.”3  Now, we too were seeing this building, from the water, as we sailed toward Key West Harbor.

    Our day-trip aboard the Yankee Freedom III to the Dry Tortugas was specifically to visit Fort Jefferson—a pre-Civil War fortress (the largest masonry fort ever constructed in the United States, although never finished) located on Garden Key, near the very end of Monroe County, Florida.4 In May 1928, Ernest, Waldo Peirce, Bill Smith, Pauline Pfeiffer’s brother Paul, and Captain “Bra” Saunders camped out inside the fort during Hemingway’s first fishing trip to the Dry Tortugas. Hemingway would later return to the Dry Tortugas, and Fort Jefferson, on numerous fishing excursions.5

    The inner grounds of Fort Jefferson, a view taken during Hemingway’s 1928 fishing trip (Photo credit: Waldo Peirce – Special Collections & Archives, Colby College Libraries, Waterville, Maine) Outer-view of Fort Jefferson today, on approach aboard the Yankee Freedom III (Photo credit: John Hargrove)

    At around 20 miles west of Key West the Yankee Freedom III passes the uninhabited Marquesas Keys, another favorite fishing spot of Hemingway’s. Having missed catching a glimpse during the trip out to Fort Jefferson of this grouping of islands with its own lagoon, we stood sentinel on the return trip, giddy as the islands came into view off the boat’s port side.

    “Look, the French Riviera,” John said with a smile, pointing out the strip of white, sandy beach, gleaming in the sun, clearly visible even from a distance. It was on one of these such beaches in the Marquesas Keys that, during their 1928 trip to the Dry Tortugas, Waldo Peirce took a photo of Hemingway, mugging for the camera and enjoying the sun, almost completely naked except for a strategically placed bit of fisherman’s gear. It’s known as The Socket Photo.

    Editor’s Note: The longer essay continues online. As it is Part I, “to be continued” appears at the end online. The full Hemingway blog page is here: https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/hr-blog

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    William Blazek on The Great Gatsby at 100 – One True Podcast – The Hemingway Society

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    The Great Gatsby celebrates its 100th birthday this year, and you knew that One True Podcast couldn’t let 2025 go by without joining the celebration. We mark the centenary of this great American novel by marking its importance in American literary history as well as the life and career of Ernest Hemingway.

    Fitzgerald scholar William Blazek visits us from his post at Liverpool Hope University to discuss the novel’s legacy, its glorious language, and its ambiguous themes; Gatsby as a complex and misunderstood character; how Gatsby would have struck the young Hemingway; and so many other aspects of this magnificent work.

    Like Nick Carraway just remembering he is turning thirty, One True Podcast hopes it isn’t too late to join the roaring celebration of Gatsby at 100! Thanks as always for supporting One True Podcast!

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    DrWebOct 23

    One True Sentence #39 with Michael Deagler | The Hemingway Society

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    October 23, 2025

    Michael Deagler, the 2025 PEN/Hemingway winner for Early Sobrieties, shares his one true sentence from To Have and Have Not.

    Join us for our favorite Hemingway parlor game as this excellent novelist chooses his favorite sentence from everything Hemingway ever wrote. We discuss writing about addiction and recovery, Hemingway’s use of dialogue, the way The Sun Also Rises serves as a textbook guide for writing novels, and much more.

    Don’t forget to submit your nomination for One True Book Club 2026! Submit your choice for a book that is not by Hemingway but is Hemingway-relevant to [email protected].

    Thank you for your continued support of One True Podcast!

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