History
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150 years of Toronto’s streetcars
Image from Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 3363. Single-horse Seaton Village car, 1890. Ten days ago, on September 1, the Toronto Transit...
By Sean Marshall -
Jack Layton in 1982, winning his first Toronto City Council election
Memories, memorials and raw thoughts are flowing across the city and country this morning remembering Jack Layton. Here’s the moment where it all...
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Event Guide: Canada Cycle & Motor Book Signing
WHAT: Book signing for Canada Cycle & Motor: The CCM Story WHEN: Sunday, July 24th at 2pm. WHERE: Frontlines Youth Centre, 1844 Weston Road (just...
By Bronwyn Clement -
Fort York Dig: The history of a house and the search for it
EDITOR: This is the third installment in our series following the Fort York archeological dig of the Government House site. Click here for more background...
By Bronwyn Clement -
Fort York Dig: A crater, a magazine, and a rampart
EDITOR: This is the second installment in our series following the Fort York archeological dig of the Government House site. Click here for more...
By Bronwyn Clement -
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...
By Sean Marshall -
Church Street and Pride don’t matter anymore? Listen to some [murmur]s that suggest otherwise.
It’s been an interesting few weeks for Pride and Church Street. An article in The Grid that used a small and isolated hipster perspective to declare...
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Fort York Dig: Scraping back the layers
EDITOR: This is the first installment in our series following the ongoing Fort York archeological dig of the Government House site. Click here for more...
By Bronwyn Clement -
As Indiana Jones as we wanna be: a new Spacing series following the Government House archeological dig at Fort York
Like many museums, Fort York shows off only part of its collection. In traditional museums, it’s simply a fact of space: there just isn’t...
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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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Heritage developer Paul Oberman dies in plane crash
News broke earlier this afternoon that Paul Oberman, the developer behind the restoration of prominent Toronto heritage properties including the Gooderham...
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Celebrate Toronto’s 177th birthday on Sunday supporting Toronto’s First Post Office
WHAT: Celebrate Toronto’s 177th birthday WHERE: St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King Street East WHEN: Sunday, March 6, 7:30PM WHY: To benefit...
By Shawn Micallef