By Sean Marshall
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Lost Villages: Erindale
Grange Homestead, Erindale, Mississauga The latest installment in the intermittent “Lost Villages” series takes us west on Dundas Street from...
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Lost Villages: Cooksville
Modern condo towers in Mississauga City Centre and traffic on Hurontario Street overwhelm old Cooksville In 1794, one year after the founding of York...
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A history of Toronto’s transit stops
TTC car stop, College Street and Spadina (from the City of Toronto Archives) Quick. What’s red and white and found all over Toronto? It’s...
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Transit, “soaking,” and you
TTC streetcars bunched at Spadina northbound at Queen There is a problem of intentional bunching of streetcars and buses by a small few, but a very...
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The end of Yonge Street
The end of Yonge Street north of Queensville Sideroad One of Toronto’s greatest debates concerns Yonge Street’s controversial claim as...
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LED street lights make their GTA debuts
Lakeshore Road, Oakville The Town of Oakville just completed the reconstruction of Lakeshore Road between Mississaga Road (near the old village of Bronte...
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TTC cuts its list of service cuts
Three weeks ago, Torontonians learned of a proposed TTC fare increase and a series of service cuts to bus routes across the city. The fare increase...
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TTC billboards miss the point
Billboards promoting the TTC have appeared across Toronto over the last few weeks. These ads are exceptionally simple for outdoor copy: the simple black...
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TTC holds off on fare increase, service cuts
UPDATE – January 12, 5PM At the special meeting today, transit Commissioners deferred any decision on the proposed cuts to bus service until its...
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Lost Villages: West Hill
West Hill and its neighbouring “lost” village, Highland Creek (featured two weeks ago) share a common early history. Both villages were...
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Lost Villages: Highland Creek and Danforth Road
The Morrish General Store at Kingston Road and Meadowvale; now the home of the Scarborough Historical Society At the dawn of the 19th century, a road was...
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Lost villages: Mount Pleasant
In northwest Brampton, at the junction of Bovaird Drive (formerly Highway 7), Creditview Road (3rd Line East), and the CN Halton Subdivision/GO Georgetown...