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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Sean Marshall

  • Pusateri’s threatens Bay Street pedestrian improvements

    The City of Toronto will be reconstructing Bay Street between Bloor St. and Davenport Rd this year. One of the key benefits to pedestrians will be...

  • New TTC bus stops sighted

    New bus stop signs are currently being installed on the 94 Wellesley bus route, a trial of the TTC’s new wayfinding strategy. These new signs, while...

  • Toronto’s streetcar network in 1926

    Sample of Roman Fomin’s 1926 map of streetcar and interurban map available on Transit Toronto Transit Toronto is a great website dedicated to, well...

  • Lost Villages: Huttonville

    Nestled in the Credit Valley is the hamlet of Huttonville, at the corner of Mississauga Road and Queen Street/Embleton Road in the City of Brampton. Until...

  • The other T.O.: A visit to Toronto, Ohio

    As part of a weekend road trip to Ohio and West Virginia, I made a stop in the City of Toronto. Toronto, Ohio is one of many small cities and towns in the...

  • Cycling Day Trips: Kitchener to Hamilton

    A few weeks ago, I completed a ride from Kitchener to Hamilton by bicycle, again mostly using rail trails and taking GO Transit to the starting point and...

  • Cycling day trips: Uxbridge to Peterborough

    September and October can be the best months for bike day trips – the days get cooler and leaves will soon change colour. Within the city, trails such as...

  • Lost Villages: L’Amoreaux

    The farming hamlet of L’Amoreaux, which straddled the border between the newly surveyed York and Scarborough Townships was settled in 1816...

  • Broken leg exposes broken system

    Editor’s note: This is an augmented version of a piece that appeared in Spacing’s Summer 2012 issue. In January, I suffered a serious cycling...

  • Lost Villages: Claireville

    Former residential building on Codlin Crescent, possibly an old toll house on the old Albion Plank Road. Today it serves as the office of a truck yard...

  • The many streets of Dundas

    TTC work crews laying new tracks on Dundas Street Diversion east of Yonge Street in 1923, linking former Agnes and Wilton Streets, and in the process...

  • 150 years of Toronto’s streetcars

    Image from Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 3363. Single-horse Seaton Village car, 1890. Ten days ago, on September 1,  the Toronto Transit...