History
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Brantford’s downtown destruction
Brantford city council recently voted to demolish three blocks of heritage buildings in the city’s downtown. Guest columnist Nigel Terpstra, of...
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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...
By Sean Marshall -
Building Storeys — Architect Unveiled: T.C. Pomphrey and the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on their ongoing Building Storeys exhibit at the Gladstone Hotel that has been...
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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...
By Sean Marshall -
Event Guide: Building Storeys 2010
Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on the Building Storeys exhibit, opening tomorrow (Thursday). After the success of our 2009...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Sean Marshall -
Building Storeys – the Canadian Northern Railway Eastern Lines Locomotive Shop
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on their upcoming Building Storeys exhibit at the Gladstone Hotel that runs...
By Spacing -
Inside the Downsview hangars
Spacing readers are probably aware of the controversy surrounding the historic wartime era hangars at Downsview Airport. Relics from the abandoned Forces...
By Marcus Bowman -
STEVE MUNRO: A 1952 view of Toronto’s streetcars
cross-posted from Steve Munro’s blog Back in 1952, the TTC was about to open its first subway line and was contemplating the future of the streetcar...
By Matthew Blackett -
Fort York Visitor Centre winning design announced
As we wrote two weeks ago, the For York Visitor’s Centre design competition included four detailed schemes. “Submission A” was chosen...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Sean Marshall -
Richard Serra’s King City Shift
High on my long list of Spacing posts I’ve not yet had time to make is one on Richard Serra’s “Shift” sculpture. It sits in a...
By Shawn Micallef