YourYongeStreet Audio

This talk discusses various episodes surrounding the building of Toronto’s original Yonge Street subway line during the late 1940s and early 1950s, with particular attention paid to the impacts of construction on local merchants and residents, and…

Historian Stuart Henderson discusses the fascinating dynamics of a hip community of beatniks, hippies, and greasers that made up one of Canada’s most infamous counter-cultural neighbourhoods near Yonge Street. The talk was part of the inaugural…