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The brutalist Chelmsford Apartment towers loom over an old village house. This is the first in a series I plan to do over the next little while on the hidden villages and hamlets that have been engulfed by urban sprawl in the Greater Toronto Area. This is going back to the beginning for me, asContinue readinghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2719/4222934413_35b1b457c3.jpg