By Sean Marshall
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Disco Road: The land that metric forgot
An old street sign in the foreground, with a newer metric speed limit sign and the Disco Road waste transfer station in the background. Disco Road, a...
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Brougham: A “lost village” in the making
Brougham, a small village at the corner of Highway 7 and Brock Road in Pickering, doesn’t quite make the usual criteria for a “lost...
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GTA’s lost villages: Churchville
Only a mere two kilometres north of Meadowvale, in Brampton, is another “lost” village, Churchville. Both communities share a lot in common...
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GTA’s Lost Villages: Meadowvale
The latest installment in this series brings us to Meadowvale Village, a well-preserved rural settlement that is now all but lost in Mississauga’s...
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GTA’s lost villages: Thistletown
23 Jason Road, Thistletown’s first house, built around 1802 Thistletown, perhaps Toronto’s best-hidden historic neighbourhood, is located at...
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GTA’s lost villages: Agincourt
The brutalist Chelmsford Apartment towers loom over an old village house. This is the first in a series I plan to do over the next little while on the...
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York University Busway: Below the Radar
2009 has proven to be a busy year for transit in the Greater Toronto Area. In Toronto alone, 2009 saw construction begin on the Spadina Subway Extension...
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Free vintage streetcar ride on St. Clair Saturday
A PCC streetcar on the Harbourfront line, May 2009 By turning on the power on the overhead wires, the work is now essentially complete on the section of...
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A bad day for the TTC
Good luck to anyone trying to get north of Bloor Street today on the subway. Just after the TTC announced a major fare increase, the Yonge Subway line is...
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The land that Timeline forgot
Until December 31, 1999, the TTC had a convenient mobile schedule system called Timeline. An early post on Spacing Toronto gives a history of the system...
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GO expands its empire as coach operators retreat
Yesterday, Tuesday, October 20 2009, the last Coach Canada bus departed the Guelph bus terminal for its run down Highway 6 to Waterdown, McMaster...
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Ad Creep: “Spirit is Everything”
On Friday, I noticed that the sidewalks around the Yonge-Queen intersection have been painted with stenciled ad messages promoting the Toronto Maple...