{"id":1745,"date":"2007-04-06T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2007-04-06T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T23:29:10","slug":"where-in-the-gta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/06\/where-in-the-gta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Where in the GTA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/IMG_8709.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/IMG_8705.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a recent Sunday with nothing better to do but drive a car around the GTA we found this perfect land of small town quaintness. Quaint is not a word to use lightly. This place is so perfect that we felt inherently imperfect. A strange restored, preserved and movies-set-like strip of old fashioned Ontario townscape that immediately becomes standard GTA suburban within 50 meters in each direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll withhold the answer until later this Good Friday afternoon<\/strong>, where we&#8217;ll reveal the location from remote Windsor, a hometown with the highest unemployment in Canada, but the only place to go for Easter. These &#8220;Where in the GTA&#8221; posts will be infrequent &#8212; not because they aren&#8217;t fun, but because we don&#8217;t go for long Sunday drives through the hinterland as much as we poke through archival photos of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 7:21PM &#8212; Sorry for the delay, the trip down the 401 had some nice detours. Then there was dinner with mom, the excited family dog, and then peanut butter cookies. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most people got this one: Main Street in Unionville. I had heard of &#8220;downtown&#8221; Markham for a long time, but could never find it. I wanted to find it on my own without asking someobody or checking a map first, but unless you see the &#8220;Main Street&#8221; sign, it&#8217;s hidden in, as somebody said in the comments below, York Region suburbia.\u00a0Following the usual signs for a centre &#8212; big buildings &#8212; will not lead you here. You&#8217;ll end up\u00a0going back and forth on Highway\u00a07, which might be downtown Houston, but not Unionville.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent Sunday with nothing better to do but drive a car around the GTA we found this perfect land of small town quaintness. Quaint is not a word to use lightly. This place is so perfect that we felt inherently imperfect. 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