History
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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...
By Sean Marshall -
The 11,000 year-old footprints at the bottom of Lake Ontario
During the last ice age, a really, really, really, really big glacier covered pretty much all of Canada and the northern United States, including the...
By Adam Bunch -
STRUCTURES: Archives of Ontario
Editor’s note: Spacing has teamed up with Rogers TV to spread the word about their show Structures, their weekly program that takes a look at the...
By Mike Bulko -
Toppy Topham crosses the Rhine — the story of Toronto’s life-saving WWII medic
The Second World War was nearly over. It had already been nine months since the Allies landed in Normandy. The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion had been...
By Adam Bunch -
An eyewitness account of the terrible night Hurricane Hazel hit Toronto
It was a Friday night in October of 1954. The rain had started coming down late that afternoon, but most people in Toronto weren’t worried...
By Adam Bunch -
STRUCTURES: Toronto’s Historic Stores
Editor’s note: Spacing has teamed up with Rogers TV to spread the word about their show Structures, their weekly program that takes a look at the...
By Mike Bulko -
Super gorgeous new L Con video might make you cry while looking at Toronto
This new L CON video for her song Oh How Love by Marc De Pape is a most-wonderful combination of archival photos and the contemporary city, mixed together...
By Shawn Micallef -
STRUCTURES: Brockton Village
Editor’s note: Spacing has teamed up with Rogers TV to spread the word about their show Structures, their weekly program that takes a look at the...
By Mike Bulko -
The “Ultimate Stuntman” who jumped off the CN Tower in 1980
Dar Robinson spent the 1970s earning a reputation as one of Hollywood’s greatest stuntmen. He did stunts in Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood films...
By Adam Bunch -
STRUCTURES: Christie Street
Editor’s note: Spacing has teamed up with Rogers TV to spread the word about their show Structures, their weekly program that takes a look at the...
By Mike Bulko -
EVENTS: Toronto Talks
With the academic year now well underway, there is an abundance of free lectures taking place in Toronto. Here are a few that are happening this week...
By Dale Duncan -
The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel
EDITOR: This is the second post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch (see the first here). The project is a series of...
By Adam Bunch