Beginning on Yonge
To a new arrival from Montreal in 1998, the vista up Yonge Street seemed endless, and so did the opportunities
By Brigitte PellerinBrigitte Pellerin is a writer and newspaper columnist living in Ottawa. This memoir introduces the new issue of Spacing focused on Yonge Street, available shortly at the Spacing Store and other outlets, and in the mail to subscribers. No way was I going to take the subway. The train from Montreal spat me out at Union Station on a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998. It was my first visit to Toronto. I was going to walk. I’d recently been hired to work on a political documentary... Read more
