History
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Toronto World Pride: A video look back at the 1989 Pride celebration
As Toronto begins its rather massive World Pride celebrations this year, we’re pleased to present another film of a previous Toronto Pride...
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That time when Toronto’s subway was the best in North America
With this post, Spacing Toronto welcomes a new contributor, Shoshanna Saxe. Shoshanna is a proud Torontonian and a civil engineer. From 2009 to 2012 she...
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The view from a condo — a resident of the new Fort York neighbourhood sees much potential as the area matures
EDITOR: We’re pleased to publish a guest essay by Kanishk Bhatia, a Toronto resident who recently returned to the city after living in London...
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The Canadian military occupation of Iceland — a strange tale from World War II
Iceland didn’t want any part of the Second World War. It was all tiny and defenseless and alone out there in the north Atlantic. Most of the hundred...
By Adam Bunch -
England loved the Group of Seven before Canadians did
This is Entrance to Halifax Harbour. It was painted by the Group of Seven’s A.Y. Jackson right at the very end of the First World War. He’d...
By Adam Bunch -
The story behind the sakura cherry blossoms of High Park
It all started in Japan more than a thousand years ago. People of the Imperial Court began to hang out under cherry trees every spring, taking advantage...
By Adam Bunch -
An apocalypse in the Beaches — William Kurelek’s nightmare visions
He was, in a lot ways, something of a Canadian stereotype. He was born in a shack on the Prairies during the winter of 1927. He grew up working on his...
By Adam Bunch -
The long-lost chestnut trees of University Avenue
It’s hard to believe, but that is a photo of University Avenue in downtown Toronto. Today, this stretch of road is “Hospital Row,” lined...
By Adam Bunch -
On loving Toronto — memories of the Annex and discovering Scarborough
EDITORS NOTE: We’re pleased to publish this meditation on being from Toronto by Christina Wong. Christina recently got her PhD in Music...
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Toronto’s greatest second baseman ever (isn’t who you think it is)
When you ask Google who the greatest second baseman of all-time was, a few names pop up. Rogers Hornsby is a popular pick, a star for the St. Louis...
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A bird’s-eye tour of the foot of Bathurst Street in the 1950s
This is what the foot of Bathurst Street looked like in the 1950s. It was a brand new intersection back then; this land didn’t even exist until the 1920s...
By Adam Bunch -
How Toronto helped break up The Beatles
At first, no one believed it was really happening. It sounded too good to be true. The Toronto Rock ‘N’ Rock Revival Show was going to be a...
By Adam Bunch