Germaine Warkentin taught English at Victoria College at the University of Toronto from 1970 to 1999. As one of her retirement-year courses she devised “Reading Toronto,” the basis for this article. She is editor of “Northrop Frye, ‘The Educated Imagination’ and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933–1963,” for The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, forthcoming from University of Toronto Press.