History
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BUILT HAMILTON: Won’t somebody save the buildings?
In an ongoing series for Spacing, Toronto-based writer Julie Baldassi delves into Hamilton’s built heritage conversation, its key players, and...
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My City Lives: “Old Town Toronto” part v
In the final video for our series with famous Toronto Historian Bruce Bell around Old Town Toronto we visited the St. James Cathedral. The church was...
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My City Lives: “Old Town Toronto” part III
In the third instalment of our video series with Bruce Bell, Toronto’s famous historian, we have profiled St. Lawrence Hall. Built in 1850 by William...
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My City Lives: “Old Town Toronto” part I
Introducing the first video in our five part series on the history of Old Town Toronto with Bruce Bell. Bell is a popular historian and tour guide, as...
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Ontario Place revisited — with John Tory heading up a revitalization of the site, let’s walk around the site now and see what’s worth saving.
With the news that John Tory will be heading up the revitalization of Ontario Place, let’s revisit a piece I wrote 1.5 years ago, exploring the...
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Smart Growth 1966, or “plus ca change …”
Here’s a quote from “Proposals for a New Plan for Toronto”, published in 1966 for public discussion at the Toronto Planning Board. A...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: The Crimes and Misdemeanours of an Unbuilt Toronto
Scanning the fascinating images in Mark Osbaldeston’s second compilation about Toronto’s “alternate history,” — Unbuilt Toronto 2 — I found myself...
By John Lorinc -
Toronto’s current urban planning conflicts rooted in the past
The seeds of Toronto’s modern-day political discord, as it pertains to urban development, were planted in the 1950s. According to Stephen Bocking, one...
By Liam Lahey -
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...
By Sean Marshall -
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...
By Sean Marshall -
Heritage Toronto Awards nominees out — you should buy a ticket to the party
Our friends at Heritage Toronto do lots of good work. They’re often the only institutional advocate standing between our built (and otherwise...
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On to the case for the City of Toronto’s museums and culture funding
While the vision for Toronto’s waterfront may have been saved in the last day by the massive public and professional response to the Rob and/or Doug...
By Shawn Micallef