"Growing up, people couldn’t wait to leave Toronto. Step one of adulthood was moving somewhere with more substance.

But that never felt right.

Toronto isn’t empty, it’s just not loud about itself like New York. You have to seek out the magic. The city doesn’t declare it.

Walk around town and you feel that every corner has something to say. It formed those people who went on to shape other cities.

But we lost track of that.

And maybe that's why stories about the city hit harder than they should. Everything here is a little more precious for being overlooked.

I want to find what we overlook. Things that make us proud to take credit for the city.

There has to be a canon. This is the project that remembers it."